Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...

Jean-Baptiste and Austin collaborated previously on Leigh’s 1993 stage play It’s a Great Big Shame! and Secrets & Lies, a lineage which inspired Leigh’s latest work. “[Marianne and I] had ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...

British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...

In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, the British actor talks about reuniting with director Mike Leigh for his new film, Hard Truths.

Mike Leigh's new film 'Hard Truths' stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a bitter Londoner ...

Jean-Baptiste, who’s received a BAFTA nomination for her performance, and Austin also discuss how their friendship impacted on portraying sisters and their reactions to working again with Leigh ...

Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.