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Marianne Jean-Baptiste

  • Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
  • Birthday: April 26, 1967

Dignified, with an exquisite voice, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was hardly known in her native Britain and completely unknown in the USA until the release of Mike Leigh's acclaimed "Secrets & Lies" (1996). Cast as Hortense, an Afro-British young woman who seeks out her birth mother and discovers the latter is a lower-class white woman. Hortense is then slowly integrated into her birth mother's family, a group filled with unstated emotions and buried truths all of which are manifested in anger and hostility. Jean-Baptiste had previo…more

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  • 2002

    Co-starred in the CBS series "Without A Trace"

  • 2001

    Appeared in "The Vagina Monologues" in London

  • 2001

    Portrayed the loyal secretary to a CIA agent in "Spy Game"

  • 2000

    Played a scientist who oversees a mind transfer between a serial killer and a psychiatrist in "The Cell"

  • 1999

    Cast as the mother of a black teen who was stabbed to death in a racial incident in "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence" (ITV), based on a well-known real-life case in London; aired on PBS in 2002

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