‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s something really powerful about that,’ Michele tells Metro about the multi-Bafta-nominated feature already making waves for Black British representation in the film industry.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering study of everyday misery

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

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

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.

Jean-Baptiste is no stranger to working with Leigh, as she received her breakout role (and first Oscar nomination) for his brilliant drama Secrets & Lies. Although that film required her to play a warm,

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 gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truths sets the tone for this telling familial drama.

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It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in 2024, by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's wonderful 1996 film, Secrets & Lies, in which she played a ...

Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from Marianne Jean-Baptiste