Biography of Tessa Thompson
Tessa Thompson is an American theater and movie actress, a star of the TV series Veronica Mars, Copper and Westworld, as well as the feature movies Creed and Thor: Ragnarok. Net worth: $4 million.
Her Childhood and Youth
Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on October 3, 1983, in Los Angeles, but spent her childhood partly in New York's Brooklyn after the divorce of her parents – the mum with children (Tessa and her older sister) stayed in the City of Angels, the dad moved to New York.
Tessa was fascinated by the movie industry from an early age. She and her father act in a show about catching crocodiles on the Hollywood Hills. It was their personal game: the little girl called him and left the lines on behalf of different characters on the answering machine, and once she came to meet him, dressed as a boy-hunter. I always liked to act as other personalities – it is a real art, – Thompson recalls.
My family was quite liberal. The parents did not say: Hey, you`re a kid, go to bed or You are a child, your opinion does not interest anyone.But liberal education in the family could not protect the girl from the cruel outside world, in particular, the attacks of racists. When Tessa was 7, a younger girl who played with Thompson on the playground called her a nigger for the first time.
Once, her mum, who worked in the Los Angeles City Hall, sent her daughter to a privileged private school. Among the students, there were only 4 dark-skinned children, including Tess. Because of the incessant mockery of her classmates, for a long time, the girl begged her mother to go to an ordinary public school. The public school seemed another world – there were 4 thousand students with different skin color, religion, and beliefs, as well as the Club of Racial Harmony, where older students told newcomers about the dangers of racial stereotypes.
Her Acting Career
The girl made her first professional stage debut in 2000. In Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, she acted in the play The Tempest.
Over the next 10 years, she got dozens of roles in TV series and movies. The emphasis in her characters was always put on their race, despite Tessa wanted it or not. For example, in 2006, Thompson was cast Jackie Cook, a girlfriend of the main character, in the teenage detective series Veronica Mars, but she was quickly taken out of the script because of the audience’s dissatisfaction. According to the creators, Tessa’s character was a stereotypical dark-skinned girl, probably, it annoyed everyone, – the actress said.
According to Zoomboola.com, in 2008, she starred in the dancing movie Make It Happen, where the main roles were played by Tessa and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. This was followed by the drama Mississippi Damned, a movie about the family of black farmers from the South who had suffered from racial discrimination for a long time.
In 2010, the actress acted in Tyler Perry's stage play adaptation For Colored Girls, after which she was invited to star in the movie. Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, and Kerry Washington also starred in Perry’s movie about the life and fate of nine different African-American women. For her role, Tessa received the Black Reel Awards for Best Breakthrough Performance.
For her role as singer Bianca in the sports drama Creed with Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in the lead roles, Tessa received the award for Best Supporting Actress from the African-American Film Critics Association. The film was warmly met by the audience, which was unusual for such restarts of the old stories.
A few months later, Tessa starred in the video for the rapper Jay-Z for the song Moonlight.
On November 3, 2017, it was a premiere of the fifth film of the third phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Thor: Ragnarok. In the movie, Tessa played one of the Valkyries of the legendary squad of female fighters who had died from the goddess Hela in the defense of Asgard. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum and Mark Ruffalo were Thompson’s colleagues on the set.
Other Projects
In 2014, she recorded several songs for the soundtrack to the movie Dear White People with her band Caught A Ghost. Their work can be attributed to the genre of soul music. She also starred as a singer in Creed.Personal Life of Tess Thompson
There are suggestions that some time Tessa has dated the American actor Ben Crawley, but the couple has not officially confirmed the rumors. Apparently, Thompson’s heart is still free now.
Tessa Thompson Now
In 2019, the premiere of the next part of the fantastic comedy film "Men in Black: International" took place. In it, Tessa played Agent M. The actress's partners on the set were Chris Hemsworth and Liam Neeson.
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