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Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. She is known for her role in Mike Leigh's drama film Secrets & Lies (1996), for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category.
Hard Truths is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, and David Webber.Set in London, its plot follows the plight of a depressed and nay-saying woman (Jean-Baptiste) and the relationship with her jovial sister Chantelle (Austin).
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Worthy of Another Trip to the Oscars for Her Brilliant, Biting Performance in Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' “Hard Truths” builds upon the humanistic director’s ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste was 'yearning' to reteam with Mike Leigh for Hard Truths' “Hard Truths” reunites Jean-Baptiste with Leigh, 81, after 1996’s “Secrets & Lies,” which picked up five ...
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – and discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working ...
In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it, as ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste has gained serious momentum toward a lead actress Oscar nomination with her performance as a depressed, caustic Londoner in “Hard Truths,” her second heart-wrenching ...
For that film, Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British actress nominated for an Academy Award. Her performance in “Hard Truths” has been just as celebrated, earning best actress from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Three decades later, Jean-Baptiste could be heading back to the Oscars.