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

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

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

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed with anger.

Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

The actress takes a star turn as a deliciously unlikable woman in Mike Leigh's new film Hard Truths.

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths. Photo: Simon Mein/Thin Man Films Pansy Deacon, the London woman played by Marianne Jean ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

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Early in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. “It’s ...