Thompson made her first television appearance in a 2005 episode of the CBS crime drama series Cold Case in the role of a lesbian bootlegger from the 1930s. In 2003, she appeared as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans, 1836 with The Theatre Boston Court in Pasadena, California, which earned her an NAACP Theatre Award nomination.
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In 2002, Thompson made her professional stage debut as one of three actors portraying the role of Ariel in LAWSC's production of The Tempest. Thompson at the 46th NAACP Image Awards in 2014 While at SMC, she also attended lectures by Lisa Wolpe of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company (LAWSC). Thompson attended Santa Monica High School where she played Hermia in a student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and attended Santa Monica College (SMC) where she studied cultural anthropology. Her younger half-sister, Zsela, is a singer and songwriter. Her mother is of half Mexican and half American ancestry. Her father, singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson, is Afro-Panamanian and the founder of the musical collective Chocolate Genius, Inc. Thompson was born on October 3, 1983, in Los Angeles, California and raised between Los Angeles and Brooklyn, New York. In 2017, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her work as a producer on Sylvie's Love. On television, she starred in the noir drama series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), the drama series Copper (2012–2013), and the science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022) as Charlotte Hale and Dolores Abernathy. She also has received critical praise for her performances in independent films such as the dark comedy Sorry to Bother You (2018), the crime thriller Little Woods (2018), the science-fiction horror film Annihilation (2018), the romantic drama Sylvie's Love (2020), and the period film Passing (2021), the latter of which earned her a British Academy Film Award nomination. She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing Bianca Taylor in the sport dramas Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and Creed III (2023), and her role as Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as her leading role in the science fiction franchise film Men in Black: International (2019). Thompson gained favorable notices for her early film performances in the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014), and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay’s historical drama Selma (2014). Her breakthrough came with leading roles in Tina Mabry's independent drama film Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010), an adaptation of the 1976 play of the same name.
She appeared in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, the latter of which earned her a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress.
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