The Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director. NBC News' Sahil Kapur reports from Capitol Hill. Brendan Buck, former ...

Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste has won the Outstanding Lead Performance award at the Black Reel Awards. Amazon MGM ...

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 ...

Everything is a problem. Here's a slice of her dinner table conversation. MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE: (As Pansy Deacon) You can't go in or out of a supermarket without being harassed by those grinning ...

Jean-Baptiste was sweeping awards season as critic groups’ choice for Best Actress of 2024 until Fernanda Torres took the fifth spot in the category at the Oscars. Though awards are nice additions to ...

“Hard Truths” builds upon the humanistic director’s signature method, reuniting him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. The pair first played sisters in Leigh’s 1993 play “It ...

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Pansy in Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." Pansy, a middle-aged woman in contemporary London ...

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 ...

“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 ...