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.

She is also Pansy’s younger sister, the yang to her kin’s yin ... you to work hard in forgiving her trespasses, it’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste that ultimately shoulders the film.

Nearly three decades ago, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was Oscar nominated for her role in Mike Leigh’s film Secrets & Lies. Now, she’s receiving rave reviews with a stand-out performance in his ...

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 ...

Set in London, the 97-minute film centers on Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a woman deeply unhappy with the world and takes it out on everyone around her, including her long-suffering husband ...

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 London-born actress, who has been living in America for many years, said she hopes that ‘good will overcome and will unite people’.