‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...

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

Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from ...

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

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

Jean-Baptiste is no stranger to working with Leigh, as she received her breakout role (and first Oscar nomination) for his ...

The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’ ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in ‘Hard Truths’, Danielle Deadwyler in ‘The Piano Lesson’, Clarence Maclin in ‘Sing Sing’, Aunjanue ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in 2024 ...