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Marianne-Gent-Baptiste is a classically trained actor who has over 50 credits in what has to be one of the most varied resumes in all acting.

Her breakthrough part was probably in Secrets and Lies, the acclaimed British drama from the 1990s directed by Mike Lee.

That role earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Academy Awards.

In 2002, she got a lead part on the American TV show Without a Trace.

She played Vivian Johnson.

I know we dig into people's lives for a living, but because this is Sam's sister, I don't know.

Feels a little different, kind of like we're snooping.

Well, for the record, if anybody ever tasers me, searching to anything you can find.

Count on it.

Most recently, she has reunited with Mike Lee for the new movie, Hard Truths.

She's been getting a lot of early

buzz for her performance in it, including a best actress nod from both the Los Angeles and New York

film critic societies. When she and I talked in 2020, she had just starred in a film called

In Fabric. It's a movie, and I don't know if there's a more elegant way to say this, a bizarre, psychedelic,

terrifying movie about a haunted dress. The dress is beautiful, red, and it literally burns itself

onto its wearer. It's worshipped by occultists, And in the film, in fabric,

Marion Jean-Baptiste's character is the first person,

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