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

Demi Moore for Best Actress, Coralie Fargeat for Best Director Leading the way is Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez”, a Spanish-language, French-made film, which has received 13 nominations ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...