Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama - 4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is ...

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Early in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. “It’s ...

Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world ...

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance ... and their two daughters. She was a series regular for seven seasons of CBS’ police procedural “Without ...

Whether that’s in a film, or in a TV show, or at my sewing machine, or in a dish that I’m cooking.” Jean-Baptiste sits, content, handbag at the ready. “When you can do that,” she adds, ...

Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...

For Britain’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste ... breakthrough in “Secrets” Jean-Baptiste moved with her family to Los Angeles and worked continuously, in series like “Without a Trace” as ...

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NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

She was a series ... Marianne Jean-Baptiste is also an accomplished musician who composed the score for Mike Leigh's 1997 film "Career Girls." The genial actress has worked primarily in TV for ...