Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Biography
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is an English actress and director who trained classically at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and earlier worked with Mike Leigh onstage. Born in London and raised in Peckham, she won international acclaim for Leigh's drama Secrets & Lies (1996), earning Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress and becoming the first black British actress nominated for an Academy Award. She went on to play FBI agent Vivian Johnson in the television series Without a Trace from 2002 to 2009 and later appeared in Blindspot and Homecoming, with film work including Takers (2010), Secrets in the Walls (2010) and RoboCop (2014). She returned to Leigh for Hard Truths (2024), winning best actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, and also appeared in the 2025 West End revival of All My Sons.
59years old
Turns 60 on April 26in 195 days
- Born London
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Marianne Ragipcien Jean-Baptiste (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 20
- Career span
- 28 years1996 to 2024
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Behind the award
For her lead role in Mike Leigh's 2024 film Hard Truths, Jean-Baptiste earned Best Actress honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, making her the first Black actress to achieve the critics' trifecta.
Big break
Jean-Baptiste first worked with Mike Leigh onstage in the 1993 play It's a Great Big Shame! Later, she earned international acclaim for his drama Secrets & Lies (1996), which brought her Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
Behind the camera
Jean-Baptiste is a writer and composer who recorded a blues album and wrote the music for Leigh's 1997 film Career Girls.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Mike Leigh directed two of these films. Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Eric Stoltz's page
Saoirse Ronan's page
Stephen Dillane's page
Sarab Kamoo's page
Michele Austin's page
Mike LeighDirector, 2 films, 1996 to 2024
All films by Mike Leigh
Box office
What Marianne Jean-Baptiste's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.0 billion
15 of the 20 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 20 films: 15 worldwide figure; 1 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 3 figure not found.
- 15Worldwide figure
- 1Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 3Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$351M34.1% of the total
- 2$243M23.6% of the total
- 3$143M13.9% of the total
- 4$104M10.1% of the total
- 5$80M7.8% of the total
- 6$62M6.0% of the total
- 7$18M1.7% of the total
- 8$13M1.3% of the total
$15.2 millionfrom the other 7 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
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