‘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 ...

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 ...

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

From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring BAFTA award- winner Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele ...

She's lethal with the put-downs of loved ones and strangers alike, is doing hard time inside her own head, and closing off more and more of the world outside by the day. Pansy's sister Chantelle ...

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

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

The latest from legendary director Mike Leigh is as brutal as they come ...

Faithfull was a counterculture icon whose rich contradictions and artistic intensity changed everyone she brushed against ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...