Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the ...

You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...

Baptiste, her 30-years-later reunion with the legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh as the star of “Hard Truths,” in theaters now, ...

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...

Baptiste, known for roles in "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Without a Trace," is receiving serious Oscar buzz for her ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

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

Playing a woman who is inexplicably always in a foul mood, the 'Without a Trace' star should be recognized this awards season ...

To say that the British actor and director Mike Leigh have given us their best collaboration to date is too mild a sentiment.

It’s got fur, ain’t it?” She has a particular facility for insults — when she informs a woman on line behind her at the ...

Jean-Baptiste has worked with Leigh off and on since the ‘90s. She wrote parts of the score to one of his earliest films, ...

"By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with," Marianne Jean-Baptiste tells Newsweek.