At the center of the tale are two sisters, Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Chantelle (Michele Austin), who are as ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is the angriest woman in the world, ranting and raging against anything and everything that ...

It has been 28 years since Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste worked together on a project, the pair’s breakout 1996 drama ...

New York Film Festival preview: 10 movies you ought to know about Kitchen-sink realist Mike Leigh, now in his eighties, may ...

Sitting at an outdoor table near the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel in oversized sunglasses, sipping on English Breakfast ...

Pansy wakes up every morning with a gasp and a muffled scream, can’t have a civil conversation with her son or her husband and ... right for.’” Marianne Jean-Baptiste in “Hard Truths ...

Just this week the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste won the best actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle (I'm a ...

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since “Secrets and Lies” earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: Basically, there is no pitch ... Then, David Webber [who plays Pansy’s husband] would come in and start again by making a parallel history. When did they meet? What happened, ...

The British director casts the superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the role of an excruciatingly lonely character whose pain ...