Jean-Baptiste Badon, a junior playing his first semester as a member of the University of Arkansas men's tennis team, says he is not the same person today that he was when he arrived on campus New ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film Secrets & Lies, which led to Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

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 ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

For Britain’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste, her 30-years-later reunion with the legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh as the star of “Hard Truths,” in theaters now, has been a remarkable triumph.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed, a place she will spend increasingly more time in across the film, when she suddenly awakes in fright. Is it a nightmare? Or simply the anxiety ...

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths. Photo: Simon Mein/Thin Man Films Pansy Deacon, the London woman played by Marianne Jean ...

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 ...

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

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed with anger.