
Tessa Thompson
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.587 |
Birthday | 1983-10-03 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | Tessa Lynne Thompson, Τέσσα Τόμπσον, 蒂莎·湯普森, |

2006

When a Stranger Calls
5.8/1046
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...
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2006

The Initiation of Sarah
5.4/45
A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil.
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The Initiation of Sarah

2008

Make It Happen
6/292
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...
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2024

The Listener
5.4/14
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 feeli...
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The Listener

2010

For Colored Girls
6.7/79
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...
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Hedda
0/0
Hedda Gabler navigates a house she does not want, a marriage she feels trapped in, and an ex-lover who has reappeared in her life.
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The Invite
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A middle-aged couple who are feeling stagnant in their relationship invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-toget...
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2022

Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
6/3
Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons...
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2014

Dear White People
6.1/458
Four college students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an "African-American" themed party thrown by white students. With tong...
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2012

Murder on the 13th Floor
4.853/17
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
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2015

From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues
7/14
In this one-hour documentary event narrated by Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, the filmmakers and past cast members share Rockys Cinderella stor...
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2014

Grantham & Rose
6.4/7
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...
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2022

Thor: Love and Thunder
6.423/7759
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...
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2010

Exquisite Corpse
4.9/9
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...
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2023

The Marvels
6.028/2841
Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended c...
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Creed IV
0/0
The fourth installment of the “Creed” saga
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2014

Points of Origin
6.2/6
Will the relationship between an American radio host and his wife survive the ethical dilemmas of outsourced pregnancy in India?
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2014

Selma
7.394/2203
"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...
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2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
7/40
Settle in with the likes of Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson, and as they divulge the secrets behin...
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2015

Creed
7.408/7499
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...
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2016

War on Everyone
5.773/426
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...
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2018

Annihilation
6.4/8714
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
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2017

Thor: Ragnarok
7.586/20944
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...
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2015

The Grand Romantic
0/0
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...
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2013

Automotive
5.5/2
Set entirely around the perspective of a 1964 Mercury muscle car, Automotive is an American neo-noir about Kansas, a man who must unravel a crime he m...
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2011

Everyday Black Man
5/4
Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching ov...
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2008

The Human Contract
4.536/55
A free-spirited woman leads a businessman down a path of reckless abandon.
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2016

Salt Water
8.2/4
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...
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2017

South Dakota
4.3/3
Barb is a 14-year-old high school track star and cheerleader in love with her 15-year-old star athlete boyfriend when a single moment of passion chang...
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2009

Mississippi Damned
5.6/13
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
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2019

Little Woods
5.595/74
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the a...
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2018

Sorry to Bother You
6.798/1579
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him i...
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Sorry to Bother You

2017

100 Years
6/7
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2018

Creed II
7/5467
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...
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2018

Furlough
5.741/56
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...
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Furlough

2018

Dirty Computer
7/48
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2021

Passing
6.3/308
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.
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2019

Lady and the Tramp
7.2/1563
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...
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2019

Men in Black: International
5.908/4964
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...
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2020

Sylvie's Love
6.2/94
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 ch...
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2019

Between Two Ferns: The Movie
6/876
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...
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2019

Avengers: Endgame
8.2/26016
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...
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2023

Creed III
7.115/2579
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian A...
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2019

Shadow Stalker
0/0
Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms, performance a...
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2017

Moonlight
0/0
A look at an all-Black cast reboot of the TV show "Friends".
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2010

Betwixt
0/0
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2019

Brave Girl Rising
0/0
Brave Girl Rising tells how a courageous girl, inspired by the magical dreams of her mother and the sisterhood of her friends, succeeds in getting the...
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