Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the ...

Jean-Baptiste has worked with Leigh off and on since the ‘90s. She wrote parts of the score to one of his earliest films, ...

Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of ...

The director's latest misanthropic drama, following such films as "Bleak Moments" and "Naked," is a puckeringly sour delight, ...

It is almost 30 years since Jean-Baptiste and Leigh collaborated on a film—the cult 1996 comedy drama Secrets & Lies, which ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths." ...

In his excoriatingly funny new film, the British realist Mike Leigh reunites with a key actor from his 1996 triumph, “Secrets ...

(We all probably have someone like Pansy in our lives.) But that dark edge of recognition comes with the glorious consolations of art: Even at their bleakest, Leigh’s pictures and his people ...

Pansy Ho, heiress to the fortune of casino mogul Stanley Ho, is one of the wealthiest and most successful businesswomen in ...

Mike Leigh calls America 'Trump Land' and worries that the country's population doesn't fully grasp the threat he poses.