Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

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 ...

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

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us ...

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

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

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

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed ...

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

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