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Beauty news! Tessa Thompson has been named the face of Armani Beauty — and the new gig is a bit of a pinch-me moment. 

If you haven’t already seen it, Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing” on Netflix, is one of the most nuanced, layered, and engrossing portraits of identity of the year. Based on the book of the same name and set in 1920s New York City, “Passing” centers on a Black woman (Tessa Thompson) in Harlem who finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend (Ruth Negga) who’s passing as white.

Clayton Davis The Black Film Critics Circle has named Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard” the best film of 2021.The drama that focuses on the rise of Venus and Serena Williams picked up three additional awards, including best actor (Will Smith), supporting actress (Aunjanue Ellis) and original screenplay (Zach Baylin).Denis Villeneuve, who helmed “Dune,” walked away with best director, his first precursor prize of the awards season, while the film also nabbed best cinematography for Greig

Great acting was everywhere in 2021. While we received the usual assortment of great performances in festival standouts and end-of-year awards contenders, we also found inspired performances in big-budget multiplex movies and no-budget horror.

Halle Bailey hits the red carpet in a sharp white lined jumpsuit for The Hollywood Reporter 2021 Power 100 Women in Entertainment event held at Fairmont Century Plaza on Wednesday afternoon (December 8) in Los Angeles.

Michael B. Jordan will be stepping behind the camera for the first time as a director, and Tessa Thompson couldn't be more excited for him.Thompson spoke with ET on the red carpet at this year's Gotham Awards in New York City on Monday — where she was nominated for her performance in — and the actress opened up about Jordan's hotly anticipated «I have seen the script,» Thompson said with a smile.

Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga hug it out inside the 2021 Gotham Awards on Monday night (November 29) in New York City.

Naman Ramachandran Boasting a culturally diverse background encompassing Zimbabwe and Spain, Lou Llobell had a peripatetic childhood that took in both of those countries and South Africa before she moved to the U.K. After drama school, pausing only to serve as Tessa Thompson’s stand-in in “Men in Black: International” (2019), Llobell acted in sci-fi film “Voyagers” (2021) before landing the central role of Gaal Dornick in showrunner David S.

The Hollywood Reporter has once again gathered a group of contemporaries to discuss their careers, projects, fame and everything in between for the latest edition of the mag’s roundtable series.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Awards definitely brought the A-list fashion this year.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

The stars are hitting the red carpet!

Rosie Perez, Tessa Thompson, and Salma Hayek are among the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Impact Awards honorees. The 24th annual celebration will be held virtually on Dec. 5, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. PST.

Alexander Skarsgard holds on to a green duffle bag while walking around his New York City neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon (November 10).

Angelique Jackson In “Passing,” Tessa Thompson stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in Harlem amid the Renaissance, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (André Holland) and their two sons is turned upside down when she reconnects with Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), a childhood acquaintance who’s since begun passing for white and is married to a wealthy (and racist) businessman named John (Alexander Skarsgård).

Looking to add to its series roster that includes Narcos, Lupin, Barbarians and El Presidente, Gaumont has partnered with Tessa Thompson’s Viva Maude to develop for HBO Luster, the bestselling debut by Raven Leilani.

Everything from surprise hits like “Squid Game” and “Pig” to big-name stars Joaquin Phoenix and Tessa Thompson are among the 2021 Gotham Award nominees.

Tessa Thompson has wrapped production on her upcoming movie called The Listener.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Steve Buscemi (Trees Lounge, Boardwalk Empire) has wrapped production on his newest feature The Listener, starring Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson (Passing, Westworld), Deadline has learned.

Tessa Thompson takes a seat on a human chair while filming new scenes for the upcoming season of Westworld in New York City on Wednesday (October 6).

EXCLUSIVE: Three Women and Hunters writer Tori Sampson will co-create HBO Max’s Tessa Thompson-produced adaptation of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

Tessa Thompson smiles in delight as a sparkler is lit to celebrate her birthday at Empire Rooftop on Sunday night (October 3) in New York City.

Tessa Thompson walks the red carpet in a chic slip dress for the premiere of her new movie, Passing, during the 2021 New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on Sunday (October 3) in New York City.

Jennifer Hudson and Regina King are enjoying a very stylish night out!

Asomugha has received an Emmy nomination as producer of the Amazon film “Sylvie’s Love,” which he also starred in alongside Tessa Thompson. Amazon also released Asomugha’s 2017 film “Crown Heights,” which premiered at Sundance and earned him supporting actor nominations at the Independent Spirit and NAACP Image Awards.

Rita Ora and her boyfriend Taika Waititi narrowly missed Tessa Thompson as they left a Met Gala afterparty in the early hours of Tuesday morning following the trio's three-way kiss earlier this year.  Thor director Taika, 46, made headlines around the world for his three-way kiss with Rita, 30, and Tessa, 37, one of the stars of his movie Thor: Love and Thunder, on the balcony of his Bondi home on May 23.

Tessa Thompson, Simu Liu and Michaela Coel are swinging into action on the carpet!

An incredibly rich category where, fortunately, no one from the five year old production of  Hamilton qualified, leaving room for one of the strongest fields in a long time, boasting a shortlist that cut out the likes of Nicole Kidman in The Undoing, Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad, Kate Mara in A Teacher, Tessa Thompson in Sylvie’s Love and more.

Taika Waititi had a party to remember!

Some of our favorite actresses from the Marvel Cinematic Universe were all at the same star-studded event this weekend!

Amber Dowling In order to address the future, sometimes you need to delve into the past.

Taika Waititi's upcoming film.Tessa Thompson, who is reprising her role as Valkyrie, confirmed to ET that Bale would be playing a villain in the film while at the season 3 premiere of in March 2020.«Christian Bale is going to play our villain, which is going to be fantastic,» she told ET. «I've read the script. I can't tell you much.

Filmmaker Justin Simien has had an excellent run of creating a franchise with “Dear White People.” What began as celebrated Sundance indie that launched the career of Tessa Thompson while taking on racial issues and white ignorance in America with a satirical spin so turned into a Netflix series. After four successful seasons, Simien is about to move on.

Well, these photos are certainly less, shall we say, provocative, than the first ones we saw confirming there was something going on between these two!

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