Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama - 4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Je

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly thirty years after her cast her in the exceptional Secrets & Lies for a new hard-hitting drama.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018) and Mr Turner (2014),

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding British Film and Best Actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. He’s directed some of the best British films of the past five decades. If there’s one thing he’d still like to do, it’s make something without worrying about money.

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, 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.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) delivers this pithy observation ... Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has honed a unique ...

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