Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress, producer, singer, and songwriter. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. She appeared in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, the latter of which earned her a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. Her breakthrough came with leading roles in Tina Mabry’s independent drama film Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry’s drama film For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson was was raised between Los Angeles and Brooklyn, New York. Her father, singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson, is of Afro-Panamanian descent and is the founder of the musical collective Chocolate Genius, Inc. Her mother has white and Mexican ancestry. She has a younger half-sister, Zsela, who is a singer and songwriter.
Thompson attended Santa Monica High School, where she played Hermia in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She then attended Santa Monica College (SMC), where she studied cultural anthropology and is a member of the alma mater. While at SMC, she also attended lectures by Lisa Wolpe of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company (LAWSC).
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Tessa Thompson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tessa Thompson |
| Also Know | 테사 톰슨, Tessa Lynne Thompson, ΤÎσα Τόμσον, تسا تامپسون, ТеÑÑа ТомпÑон |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1983-10-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 38 |
| Deathday |
Tessa Thompson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Murder on the 13th Floor | Nia Palmer | 2012-05-18 | A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband…. |
| Mississippi Damned | Kari Peterson | 2009-01-16 | Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence…. |
| South Dakota | Chris | 2017-04-28 | Barb is a real life “Juno” in South Dakota – a fourteen old high school track star and cheerleader in love with her 15 year old star athlete boyfriend… |
| Little Woods | Ollie | 2019-04-19 | For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the a… |
| Passing | Irene Redfield | 2021-10-27 | In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who’s passing as white…. |
| Lady and the Tramp | Lady (voice) | 2019-11-12 | The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owner… |
| Sylvie’s Love | Sylvie | 2020-01-27 | When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends … |
| Shadow Stalker | Tessa Thompson | 2019-11-13 | Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms, performance a… |
| The Listener | Beth | 2022-09-09 | Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people fee… |
| Ash | A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station killed. She must decide if she can trust the man sent to rescue her, whil… | ||
| Points of Origin | Rosemary | 2014-06-18 | Will the relationship between an American radio host and his wife survive the ethical dilemmas of outsourced pregnancy in India?… |
| The Grand Romantic | Boss’ secretary | 2015-08-20 | The film follows an artist (Nate Ruess) in the midst of failing to reach the greatness of his previous albums, and being pressured by most of the peop… |
| Sorry to Bother You | Detroit | 2018-07-06 | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him… |
| Furlough | Nicole Stevens | 2018-03-16 | In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she’s tasked with… |
| Dirty Computer | Zen | 2018-04-23 | The story of a young woman named Jane 57821, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as ‘computers.’ ‘Dirty… |
| Men in Black: International | Molly Wright / Agent M | 2019-06-12 | The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat t… |
| Creed III | Bianca Taylor | 2023-03-03 | The third installment of Creed franchise…. |
| Grantham and Rose | Wallis | 2014-03-23 | When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American woman named Rose Price, Grantham and Rose push the bo… |
| Creed | Bianca | 2015-11-25 | The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apoll… |
| Automotive | Maggie | 2013-06-01 | AUTOMOTIVE is a modern noir seen through the eyes of a classic car: Is that a body Kansas is putting in the trunk? He buries it in the desert night un… |
| Everyday Black Man | Claire | 2011-02-01 | Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching ov… |
| Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising | Self | 2022-02-03 | Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons… |
| The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder | Self | 2022-09-08 | Settle in with the likes of Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson, and as they divulge the secrets behin… |
| The Initiation of Sarah | Esme | 2006-01-01 | A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil…. |
| Make It Happen | Dana | 2008-08-08 | Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflic… |
| Dear White People | Samantha White | 2014-10-17 | Four college students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African-American†themed party thrown by white students. With … |
| Exquisite Corpse | Liz | 2010-01-01 | A medical student (Steve Sandvoss) is working on a research project and discovers that he is able to reanimate recently-deceased mice. He takes a brea… |
| War on Everyone | Jackie Hollis | 2016-10-07 | Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, howe… |
| Annihilation | Josie Radek | 2018-02-22 | A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don’t apply…. |
| Thor: Ragnarok | Scrapper 142 / Valkyrie | 2017-10-24 | Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction … |
| Thor: Love and Thunder | King Valkyrie | 2022-07-06 | After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of … |
| Creed II | Bianca Taylor | 2018-11-21 | Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family’s past, Adonis Creed is up against the ch… |
| For Colored Girls | Nyla / Purple | 2010-11-05 | About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw… |
| 100 Years | Narrator (voice) | 2017-01-17 | An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood…. |
| The Making of Annihilation | Herself | 2018-05-29 | Director Alex Garland, Natalie Portman, and other cast and crew take viewers behind the scenes for a deeper look inside the film’s stunts, intricate s… |
| When a Stranger Calls | Scarlet | 2006-02-03 | Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast … |
| Selma | Diane Nash | 2014-12-25 | “Selma,” as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme… |
| Salt Water | Brit | 2016-01-01 | Based on a true story, a troubled twenty-year-old with PTSD struggles to normalize her life and escape her past. But as the symptoms of her disorder s… |
| Avengers: Endgame | Valkyrie | 2019-04-24 | After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini… |
| The Human Contract | Waitress | 2008-09-12 | A free-spirited woman leads a businessman down a path of reckless abandon…. |
| Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Self | 2019-09-20 | Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, ‘Between Two Ferns’ and uploaded it to Funny or D… |
Tessa Thompson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Sylvie’s Love | Executive Producer | 2020-01-27 | When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends … |
| Little Woods | Executive Producer | 2019-04-19 | For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the a… |
| The Listener | Producer | 2022-09-09 | Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people fee… |
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