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.
Tessa Thompson
Valkyrie
for Valkyrie in THE LEGENDARY STAR-LORD (MCU Marvel Studios)
Suggested by enzotakerian
This is the continuing story of Peter Quill/Star-Lord after the Guardians part ways and he let Gamora go. He now lives with his grandfather back on Earth in Missouri. He's more depressed since he lost his mother, had to kill his father, lost his girlfriend who came back from another timeline and doesn't want to date him, and he and his friends parted ways. One of his late mother's ex-lovers does something bad to the Quill house. Also, Grandpa Quill has a complicated past, and enemies from his past are coming after him. Unfortunately, Peter's ex-lovers from space have tracked him down and they want to kill him. What will he do now since he's going solo and he's outnumbered. What if after the prologue, the opening credits will show Star-Lord having a spaceship race, and we hear "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins? At one point, while going through jump points, Peter and Grandpa get stuck in a different dimension where he sees a different version of his biological dad, who is an emperor named J'Son. What if the Eternals are involved because of the revelation of Eros, the brother of Thanos? What if they also talk about the dangerous relic called the Black Vortex?
