00:00I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm going to die, well, it may as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.
00:08Good.
00:09From a fierce Asgardian warrior to a real-life civil rights activist, here are eight roles we love from Tessa Thompson.
00:19The actress played Jackie Cook on the mid-2000s TV series Veronica Mars, starring Kristen Bell.
00:25Thompson's character was introduced in the show's second season as the love interest of Wallace, played by Percy Daggs III, and the daughter of a famous baseball player.
00:34The 2014 satirical film Dear White People saw the actress star as college student Samantha,
00:39the host of a radio show where she frequently breaks down the status of race relations on campus at an Ivy League stand-in called Winchester University,
00:47where black students endure marginalization in both the classroom and campus life.
00:51On behalf of all the colored folks in the room, let me apologize to all the better-qualified white students whose place we're taking up.
00:58No, it's fine. We're okay.
01:00I'm sorry, did you get lost?
01:01In the 2014 historical drama Selma, Thompson portrayed real-life civil rights activist Diane Nash.
01:07The movie is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.
01:12Nash was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
01:15which was the principal channel of student commitment to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
01:20According to The Hollywood Reporter's review of the film,
01:22quote,
01:232015's Creed saw Thompson take on the role of Bianca,
01:33the neighbor-turned-love interest of Michael B. Jordan's character Adonis.
01:37Bianca is a local singer who is coping with a degenerative hearing problem.
01:40THR's review said Thompson, quote,
01:42seriously brightens every scene she's in.
01:45I got progressive hearing loss.
01:49Just started wearing these this past year.
01:51I only need them in place with a lot of background noise for now.
01:55She returned to the role for 2018's Creed II.
01:58D, do you know what you're doing right now?
02:00I mean, yeah, kinda.
02:02What do you mean kinda?
02:042017's Thor Ragnarok saw Thompson join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Valkyrie,
02:09a warrior and part-time bounty hunter.
02:11She also played the part in 2019's Avengers Endgame and 2022's Thor Love and Thunder,
02:17where the character became King Valkyrie, the ruler of New Asgard.
02:21Have you ever had a special someone?
02:22I've had so many special someones, but I don't know.
02:29I don't know if I want that again.
02:302018's Sorry to Bother You saw Thompson play Detroit,
02:33an artist and the girlfriend of Lakeith Stanfield's character Cash,
02:37a man who fakes credentials for a telemarketing job
02:39in an alternative version of present-day Oakland.
02:42In the 2020 romance film Sylvie's Love, the actor starred as Sylvie Johnson,
02:46a smart record store owner's daughter from the upper echelon of Harlem Society,
02:50whose star-crossed lover is a talented tenor saxophonist.
02:54THR's review said the film, set in the 1950s and early 60s,
02:58will send fans of Golden Age cinema, quote,
03:00swooning with nostalgia.
03:02What are you doing to New York?
03:04We're recording an album.
03:06That is terrific.
03:082021's Passing saw Thompson play Irene,
03:11a black woman in 1920s New York whose skin color is light enough
03:14that she can be perceived as white, referred to as Passing.
03:18According to THR's review of the drama, quote,
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