Tessa Thompson

Q: Has Tessa Thompson won any awards?

Tessa Thompson has received several nominations and awards, including the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in 'Selma'.

Q: When did Tessa Thompson start her acting career?

Tessa Thompson began her acting career in 2006 with a role in the television series 'Lincoln Heights', marking her entry into the entertainment industry.

Q: What is Tessa Thompson's estimated net worth?

Tessa Thompson's estimated net worth is around $4 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: What is Tessa Thompson known for?

Tessa Thompson is known for her versatility in portraying strong, complex characters in both action and dramatic films, often breaking stereotypes in Hollywood.

Q: Is Tessa Thompson involved in any activism?

Yes, Tessa Thompson is actively involved in advocacy for representation and equality in the film industry, often speaking out on issues related to diversity.

Q: What are some of Tessa Thompson's filmography milestones?

Some milestones in Tessa Thompson's filmography include her breakout role in 'Dear White People' and her portrayal of Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Q: Who are Tessa Thompson's parents?

Tessa Thompson's parents are Marc Anthony Thompson and A. Thompson, both of whom have influenced her career and artistic pursuits.

Known for

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

IMDb 7.9 / 10

2017 / Action, Adventure / 130 min

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to...

Creed (2015)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2015 / Drama, Sport / 133 min

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former...

Name

Tessa Thompson

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

3 October 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA

Children

Parents

Marc Anthony Thompson, A. Thompson

Estimated Net Worth

$4 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV HIS & HERS Two estranged spouses — one a detective, the other a news reporter — vie to solve a murder in which...	Anna Andrews	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	Movie Hedda Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present...	Hedda Gabler	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2025	TV Marvel Zombies After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an...	Valkyrie (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	TV Number One on the Call Sheet Some of Hollywood's biggest stars reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles. In candid interviews, they shine a light on...	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2024	Movie The Listener Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America,...	Beth	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	Movie The Marvels When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that...	Valkyrie	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	Movie Creed III After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and...	Bianca Creed	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2022	Movie Logic Paralyzes the Heart Cyborg #1, a sentient being who adopts the guise of a human through actress Joan Chen, engages in an exercise...	Unknown character	Not rated
2022	TV Sherri Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily...	Self - Guest	TMDB 2.6 / 10
2022	Movie Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder Settle in with the likes of Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson, and as they...	Self - King Valkyrie	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2022	Movie Thor: Love and Thunder After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods,...	King Valkyrie	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	TV Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2022	Movie Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	Movie Passing In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former...	Irene Redfield	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2021	TV What If...? Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and...	Valkyrie (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2021	TV Marvel Studios Legends Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each...	Valkyrie (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2020	Movie Sylvie's Love When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a...	Sylvie	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	Movie Shadow Stalker Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms,...	Tessa Thompson	Not rated
2019	Movie Lady and the Tramp The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out...	Lady (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie Between Two Ferns: The Movie Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, 'Between Two Ferns' and...	Tessa Thompson	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2019	Movie Men in Black: International The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they...	Agent M	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2019	Movie Avengers: Endgame After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad...	Valkyrie	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2019	Movie Little Woods For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and...	Oleander 'Ollie' Hale	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2019	Movie Brave Girl Rising Brave Girl Rising tells how a courageous girl, inspired by the magical dreams of her mother and the sisterhood of...	Nasro (voice)	Not rated
2018	Movie Creed II Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis...	Bianca	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Sorry to Bother You In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which...	Detroit	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Dirty Computer The story of a young woman named Jane 57821, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are...	Zen	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Furlough In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a...	Nicole Stevens	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2018	Movie Annihilation A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.	Josie Radek	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie Thor: Ragnarok Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get...	Valkyrie	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie Moonlight A look at an all-Black cast reboot of the TV show "Friends".	Monica	Not rated
2017	TV Dear White People Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly...	Rikki Carter	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie South Dakota Barb is a 14-year-old high school track star and cheerleader in love with her 15-year-old star athlete boyfriend when a...	Chris	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2017	Movie 100 Years An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie War on Everyone Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path....	Jackie Hollis	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	TV Westworld A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the...	Charlotte Hale	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	Movie Salt Water Based on a true story, a troubled twenty-year-old with PTSD struggles to normalize her life and escape her past. But...	Brit	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2015	Movie Creed The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his...	Bianca	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues In this one-hour documentary event narrated by Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, the filmmakers and past cast members share Rockys...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2015	TV Hot Ones The show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then interviews them...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	Movie Selma "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that...	Diane Nash	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	TV Variety Studio: Actors on Actors PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations...	Self	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2014	Movie Dear White People A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League college comes to a head when...	Samantha White	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	TV BoJack Horseman Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not...	Taneisha (voice)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2014	Movie Points of Origin Will the relationship between an American radio host and his wife survive the ethical dilemmas of outsourced pregnancy in India?	Rosemary	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2014	Movie Grantham & Rose When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American woman named Rose Price, Grantham and...	Wallis	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie Automotive Set entirely around the perspective of a 1964 Mercury muscle car, Automotive is an American neo-noir about Kansas, a man...	Maggie	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	TV RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars The most celebrated competitors from RuPaul's Drag Race vie for a second chance to enter Drag Race herstory. This drag...	Self - Guest Judge	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2012	Movie Murder on the 13th Floor A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair...	Nia Palmer	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2011	Movie Everyday Black Man Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood...	Claire	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2011	TV Portlandia Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern...	Bailey	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	Movie For Colored Girls A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the...	Nyla / Purple	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2010	TV Rizzoli & Isles Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane,...	Anna Farrell	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2010	Movie Betwixt Three teenagers learn of their true "changeling" nature and their uncertain, intertwined destinies after attending a secret summer rave in...	Jenny	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	Movie Exquisite Corpse A medical student (Steve Sandvoss) is working on a research project and discovers that he is able to reanimate recently-deceased...	Liz	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2009	TV Three Rivers Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	TV Mental A psychiatrist balances unorthodox treatments and his conservative boss.	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	Movie Mississippi Damned Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.	Kari Peterson	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2008	Movie The Human Contract A free-spirited woman leads a businessman down a path of reckless abandon.	Waitress	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2008	Movie Make It Happen Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance...	Dana	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	TV Private Practice Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier...	Zoe Salter	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	TV Life Complex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a crime he didn't commit....	Liza	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2007	TV Hidden Palms Johnny Miller was a typical 15-year-old until his father committed suicide. Now Johnny lives in Palm Springs with his mother...	Nikki Barnes	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie The Initiation of Sarah A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil.	Esme	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	TV Heroes Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.	Rebecca Taylor	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie When a Stranger Calls Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for...	Scarlet	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2005	TV Grey's Anatomy Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.	Camille Travis	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2005	TV The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson,...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	TV Veronica Mars In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a...	Jackie Cook	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	TV Cold Case The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved....	Wilhemina 'Billie' Doucette	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1992	TV MTV Movie & TV Awards The annual film & TV awards show presented by MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV...	Self - Presenter	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1988	TV LIVE with Kelly and Mark A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.6 / 10
TBA	Movie Later the War Peekman is a wildly popular actor-director, famous for blockbuster physical comedies in which he stars with his wife Kiki. However,...	Kiki	Not rated
TBA	Movie A Separation A woman reluctantly travels from London to an isolated peninsula in southern Greece to find her estranged husband who has...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Creed IV The fourth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.	Bianca Taylor	Not rated
TBA	Movie Foxfinder The lives of Jude and Sam, a grieving couple clinging to routine and survival, are upended when William, a coldly...	Sam	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	Movie Is God Is Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that pushes them to extraordinary lengths.	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2026	TV HIS & HERS Two estranged spouses — one a detective, the other a news reporter — vie to solve a murder in which...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	Movie Hedda Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2025	Movie Seeds An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2024	Movie The Listener Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America,...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2020	Movie Sylvie's Love When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	Movie Little Woods For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.4 / 10
TBA	Movie A Separation A woman reluctantly travels from London to an isolated peninsula in southern Greece to find her estranged husband who has...	Producer Production	Not rated

Hedda

2025 / TMDB 5.6

The Listener

2024 / TMDB 5.7

The Marvels

2023 / TMDB 5.9

Creed III

2023 / TMDB 7.1

Logic Paralyzes the Heart

2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder

2022 / TMDB 6.9

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