A history-making nomination. A nod that will get Trump riled up. A film no one can agree on. Yep, it's Oscar season

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,

From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her performance carries an undeniable weight. Pansy is sharp-tongued, restless, and constantly on edge.

Demi Moore for Best Actress, Coralie Fargeat for Best Director Leading the way is Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez”, a Spanish-language, French-made film, which has received 13 nominations ...

Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...

Coralie Fargeat’s (Revenge) gonzo body horror movie follows an aging actress (Demi Moore) who takes advantage of an experimental but dangerous cosmetic drug in hopes of revitalizing her career.

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.

British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said she feels like society is “going backwards in time” after Donald Trump was elected as the US president. The 57-year-old, who is nominated for ...

“She’s not easy,” says Marianne Jean-Baptiste with a throaty laugh, as if relieved to have left the character behind. “That fear, that anxiety, constantly being on the alert for ...

The immaculate outside of Pansy’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) suburban house disguises the constant tension inside. For her, life is difficult: she is agoraphobic, depressed and constantly angry ...

Pansy, an implacably ­furious woman played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, mercilessly lays into a hapless cashier in a supermarket, hurls abuse at her exhausted husband and stay-at-home son ...