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

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. Directed by Mike Leigh, the searingly funny drama has flown somewhat under the radar ...

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 ...

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...

Some 30 years on from Secrets & Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste has reunited with director Mike Leigh to give what critics are calling the performance of awards season. Radhika Seth meets the ...

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 ...

Pansy is angry and she doesn’t know why. We all have days like that, when we snap at strangers for a minor infraction: The person who wants the spot in the parking lot that you’re not ready to ...

The Case for Dive Bars Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Sparkles How Elon Musk’s Service to Trump Will Probably, Eventually End Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is too reel and too real.

But for Pansy, the unforgettable heroine of Mike Leigh's film "Hard Truths" portrayed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, that simmering discontent is her all day, every day. It's life, and she can't break ...