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
Gabriela Abrams
for Gabriela Abrams in Uptown World
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Hey upper east siders, Gossip Girl here. Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. This is the part where I usually answer your burning questions about S & B but today I thought I'd do something a little bit different. So turn on your walkmans and dust off your parents members only jackets as we take a trip down memory lane to the Upper East Side in the 1980s. Deeply concerned with the hedonistic party girl lifestyle their daughter Lily has immersed herself in since dropping out of college and moving to Los Angeles, Rick and Cece Rhodes have made a unilateral decision. Lily will move back to the UES to live with her mother in the hopes that her life will move back in a more positive direction. Lily moving back to the UES means run-ins with mean girl Anne Van Der Bilt and her minions as well as Lily's longtime crush dashing playboy William Van Der Woodsen. It also leads to reconnections with her closeted best friend Harold Waldorf and her black sheep older sister Carol who lives in Brooklyn. Speaking of Brooklyn, aspiring musician Rufus Humphrey is about to quit making music for good after his childhood friend and co-founder of their band Lincoln Hawk dies from AIDS. Meanwhile back in the UES, the ambitious Bass brothers move from Greenwich to UES ready to put their sibling rivalry aside and take the NY business world by storm. Who knew the UES was so drama filled and scandal ridden long before I came along? You know you love me xoxo GG.
