Age: 42
female
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.
A retelling of the 1995 cult classic. The story takes place in 2001 in Las Vegas. A runaway hooker named Nomi runs away to Vegas to get into the live show industry so she can get her foot in the door to be a dancer. She gets a job working as a dancer at a high end strip club in Vegas where she meets molly, another dancer who works there as a side job. They become roommates and molly gets nomi introduced to the director of the show and where she gets a spot as a backup dancer. Nomi meets the main star of the show Krystal, a female rapper who is starring in the show to help promote her upcoming album that’s coming out at the end of the year. Nomi is a fan until she meets her. They have tension with eachother and krystal immediately is jealous of her and feels threatened by her after finding out the director likes her too. She does anything to help take her down and piss get off when she suspects Nomi had sex with the director that Krystal likes as well. Nomi is just using him to get ahead though. Nomi and krystals feud builds up tension until the director does Krystal and Nomi dirty. He beats Krystal up and screws Nomi out of a spot along with blind siding her into something dangerous. Krystal and Nomi become friends and plot against him planning to empty his bank account and murder him. They have a lot to do to get their plan fulfilled.
