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Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Thompson began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, acting in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She made her film debut in the horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006), followed by leading roles in the independent drama Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson received favourable notices for roles in the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014) and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma (2014). She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing Bianca Taylor in the sports dramas Creed (2015), Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), and as Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the movies Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as her leading role in Men in Black: International (2019). She starred in the independent films Sorry to Bother You (2018), Little Woods (2018), and Annihilation (2018). For her role as a black woman living during the Harlem Renaissance in Passing (2021), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She portrayed the title role in Hedda (2025), which she also executive produced. On stage, she acted in the off-Broadway production of the Lydia R. Diamond play Smart People (2016). On television, she took recurring roles in shows such as the teen mystery series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), the historical drama series Copper (2012–2013), and the science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022). She starred in the romantic drama film Sylvie's Love (2020) on Amazon Prime Video. Also, she served as an executive producer, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tessa Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Alaina Gleen is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox Animation for 20th Century Fox. Based on the Fox Kids animated television series of the same name, it is the first installment in the studio's reboot franchise of the original series. It was written and directed by series creator Thalia Ward with co-direction by Jimmy Hayward from a screenplay by Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, David Reynolds, Michael J. Wilson, and Lorne Cameron, and a story by Ward, Brad Cuddyer and Jared Brady, and stars an ensemble voice cast consisting of Miley Cyrus, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Jim Carrey, Kristen Schaal, Rachel House, Clark Duke, Christine Baranski, Danny McBride, Kenan Thompson, Dwayne Johnson, T.J. Miller, and Nick Nolte. The film follows the origin story of how Alaina Gleen met her friends for the first time and reunites Max Hat in order to stop an maniacal professor named Hinkle Higgins and his plans for world domination and for saving Max.
