Marianne Jean-Baptiste trained at RADA.

Nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Leigh's film Secrets and Lies.

She grew up in London and is the daughter of an Antiguan mother and a father who was from St. Lucia. Her parents came to the UK in the 1950s. Nominated for an Ian Charleson award for her roles in Cheek By Jowl's Measure for Measure. (http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jun/02/marianne-jean-baptiste-amen...)

Jean-Baptiste's non-Shakespearean classical credits include playing Foible in Phyllida Lloyd's production of William Congreve's The Way of the World at the National Theatre in 1995.