NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. Directed by Mike Leigh, the searingly funny drama has flown somewhat under the radar ...

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...

Everything is a problem. Here's a slice of her dinner table conversation. MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE: (As Pansy Deacon) You can't go in or out of a supermarket without being harassed by those grinning ...

Some 30 years on from Secrets & Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste has reunited with director Mike Leigh to give what critics are calling the performance of awards season. Radhika Seth meets the ...

Jean-Baptiste was sweeping awards season as critic groups’ choice for Best Actress of 2024 until Fernanda Torres took the fifth spot in the category at the Oscars. Though awards are nice additions to ...

Thirty years after Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin and Mike Leigh joined forces for the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the powerhouse trio have reunited for Hard Truths. Hard Truths is ...

The Case for Dive Bars Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Sparkles How Elon Musk’s Service to Trump Will Probably, Eventually End Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is too reel and too real.