Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Born: April 26, 1967
in London, England, UK
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage. She is known for her role as Vivian Johnson on the US TV series Without a Trace (2002-2009), and has starred in other US TV shows such as Blindspot (2015–2016) and Homecoming (2018).

She is also known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film Secrets & Lies, for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category.

Movies for Marianne Jean-Baptiste...

Hard Truths
Title: Hard Truths
Released: October 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Premise TBA. Said to “explore family relationships in the post-pandemic world,” and rumoured to feature an all-black cast.
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The Book of Clarence
Title: The Book of Clarence
Character: Clarence's Mother
Released: January 11, 2024
Type: Movie
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.
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Rumble Through the Dark
Title: Rumble Through the Dark
Character: Big Momma Sweet
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, where a former bare-knuckle fighter must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.
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Title: The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
Character: Cheryl Harker
Released: August 29, 2023
Type: TV
Two very different women, Alice a formidable PA and Cheryl a best-selling fantasy author, become trapped in a triangle of epic proportions with Rob an eccentric and celebrated 'ecopreneur' who may or may not be trying to destroy them both.
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Title: Surface
Character: Hannah
Released: July 28, 2022
Type: TV
A traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces of her life back together—with help from her husband and friends—Sophie begins to question the truth behind her picture-perfect life.
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The Sea Beast
Title: The Sea Beast
Character: Sarah Sharpe (voice)
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: Movie
In an era when terrifying beasts roamed the seas, monster hunters were celebrated heroes. None were more beloved than the great Jacob Holland. But when young Maisie Brumble stows away on his fabled ship, he's saddled with an unexpected ally. Together they embark on an epic journey into uncharted waters and make history.
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Boxing Day
Title: Boxing Day
Character: Shirley Mckenzie
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
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Fatman
Title: Fatman
Character: Ruth
Released: October 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
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Title: Soundtrack
Character: Annette Sands
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: TV
Love, loss and transformative luck intersect in this musical drama about two struggling artists experiencing life at full volume in Los Angeles.
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In Fabric
Title: In Fabric
Character: Sheila
Released: December 6, 2018
Type: Movie
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
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Title: Homecoming
Character: Gloria Morisseau
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: TV
Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, living with her mother and working as a waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor questions why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi quickly realizes that there's a whole other story behind the story she's been telling herself.
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Peter Rabbit
Title: Peter Rabbit
Character: Harrods General Manager
Released: February 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
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Title: Training Day
Character: Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart
Released: February 2, 2017
Type: TV
Fifteen years after the events of the feature film, Kyle Craig is assigned to go undercover in an elite squad of the LAPD as Detective Frank Rourke’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods. As Frank starts teaching his principled trainee the way of the streets, they form an uneasy alliance that will change the course of both their lives irrevocably.
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Title: Master of None
Character: Sharon
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: TV
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway.
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Title: Blindspot
Character: Bethany Mayfair
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: TV
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
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Title: How to Get Away with Murder
Character: Virginia Cross
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: TV
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
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RoboCop
Title: RoboCop
Character: Karen Dean
Released: January 30, 2014
Type: Movie
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
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The Moment
Title: The Moment
Character: Dr. Bloom
Released: April 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.
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Title: Broadchurch
Character: Sharon Bishop
Released: March 4, 2013
Type: TV
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
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Won't Back Down
Title: Won't Back Down
Character: Olivia Lopez
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
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360
Title: 360
Character: Fran
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.
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Violet & Daisy
Title: Violet & Daisy
Character: Iris
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
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Portraits in Dramatic Time
Title: Portraits in Dramatic Time
Released: July 5, 2011
Type: Movie
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both well-known and under-recognized.
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Secrets in the Walls
Title: Secrets in the Walls
Character: Belle
Released: November 24, 2010
Type: Movie
A single mom and her two daughters move from their cramped Detroit apartment to a large house in the suburbs, but scratching, cries and shadows haunt their new home.
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Takers
Title: Takers
Character: Naomi
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings, John Rahway, A.J., and brothers Jake and Jesse Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost, a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "Takers" carefully plot out their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer inches closer to apprehending the criminals.
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City of Ember
Title: City of Ember
Character: Clary
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
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Title: Sons of Anarchy
Character: Vivica
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC’s familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegal arms business driven by the seduction of money, power, and blood.
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Jam
Title: Jam
Character: Lorraine
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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Don't Explain
Title: Don't Explain
Character: Elana
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle. A cacophony of textures, layers and surfaces moving in unison and discord yearning for an open horizon.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Vivian Johnson
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Spy Game
Title: Spy Game
Character: Gladys Jennip
Released: November 18, 2001
Type: Movie
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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Men Only
Title: Men Only
Character: Gemma
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: Movie
Men Only is a provocative two-part drama about the dark side of modern masculinity. What do men want, what do women want from them, and can the two ever be reconciled? Our men are a five-a-side football team from South London. Only they're too old, too slow, too under the thumb at home to waste their precious Tuesday nights kicking a ball around and losing every time. So the football stops and the excitement starts. They begin in lap-dancing bars, but soon they want more. Porn. Violence. Sex. Class A's. What happens on Tuesday nights should never go home. But one night they finally go too far, and the two worlds look set to collide
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Women in Film
Title: Women in Film
Character: Sara
Released: January 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
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The Cell
Title: The Cell
Character: Dr. Miriam Kent
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
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28 Days
Title: 28 Days
Character: Roshanda
Released: April 6, 2000
Type: Movie
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.
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New Year's Day
Title: New Year's Day
Character: Veronica
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.
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A Murder of Crows
Title: A Murder of Crows
Character: Elizabeth Pope
Released: July 6, 1999
Type: Movie
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Title: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Character: Doreen Lawrence
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
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The 24 Hour Woman
Title: The 24 Hour Woman
Character: Madeline Labelle
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
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Mr. Jealousy
Title: Mr. Jealousy
Character: Lucretia
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
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Nowhere to Go
Title: Nowhere to Go
Character: Lynne Jacobs
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled children. Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her family including a loving grandmother. With the help of a new friend, she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a new life.
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Ellen Coles
Released: February 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
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How to Make the Cruelest Month
Title: How to Make the Cruelest Month
Character: Christina Parks
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she puts all her energy into the second.
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Secrets & Lies
Title: Secrets & Lies
Character: Hortense Cumberbatch
Released: May 24, 1996
Type: Movie
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.
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Title: Sharman
Character: Precious
Released: April 5, 1995
Type: TV
Sharman is a television series starring Clive Owen, based on the "Nick Sharman" books written by London based author Mark Timlin. Nick Sharman is a disillusioned, down-at-heel private investigator. An instinctive loner with a shady past, he can also be charming, quick-witted, determined and, despite his faults, he has an undeniable attraction for many of the women he encounters.
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Title: Cracker
Character: Marcia Reid
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: TV
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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London Kills Me
Title: London Kills Me
Character: Nanny
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Boxing Day 2
Title: Boxing Day 2
Character: Shirley Mckenzie
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Melvin and Lisa return in this highly anticipated sequel to the 2021 romantic comedy, which is rumoured to introduce Lisa's family.