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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 ...

British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said she feels like society is “going backwards in time” after Donald Trump was elected as the US president. The 57-year-old, who is nominated for ...

Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...

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.

“She’s not easy,” says Marianne Jean-Baptiste with a throaty laugh, as if relieved to have left the character behind. “That fear, that anxiety, constantly being on the alert for ...

Pansy, an implacably ­furious woman played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, mercilessly lays into a hapless cashier in a supermarket, hurls abuse at her exhausted husband and stay-at-home son ...

Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste Chantelle (Michele Austin) and Pansy (Marianne Jean ...

The immaculate outside of Pansy’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) suburban house disguises the constant tension inside. For her, life is difficult: she is agoraphobic, depressed and constantly angry ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed, a place she will spend increasingly more time in across the film, when she suddenly awakes in fright. Is it a nightmare? Or simply the anxiety ...

What’s it going to keep in its pocket, a knife?” Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) delivers this pithy observation during a dinner table rant in which she also rails against “grinning ...