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

In “Hard Truths” Jean-Baptiste, 57, is magnetic as Pansy, a very troubled, consistently insulting, miserable wife and mother. Pansy can’t help attacking anyone who is unlucky enough to come ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first ...

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 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 ...

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In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Leigh for the first ... sufficient intellectual stimulation in her role as homemaker and wife to the taciturn Curtley. But we do not know what Curtley was like ...

You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's wonderful 1996 film, Secrets & Lies, in which she played a shy, unassuming London optometrist seeking out her birth mother. But there's nothing unassuming ...

Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Leigh for the first ... sufficient intellectual stimulation in her role as homemaker and wife to the taciturn Curtley. But we do not know what Curtley was like ...