NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance ... eventually enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Three years after graduation, she was cast ...

Some 30 years on from Secrets & Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste has reunited with director Mike Leigh ... walking her dogs and making art in her studio in paint-splattered jumpsuits. If her friends, ...

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 ...

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive ... She thinks of a quote she once read by the American installation artist Theaster Gates. “He said that it’s ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, right, says it was "terrifying ... eventually enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Three years after graduation, she was cast in Leigh’s 1993 stage play ...