Tonya Mosley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She's starring in the new limited series His and Hers, a true crime thriller on Netflix.
Over the last decade, Tessa has built a career spanning blockbuster films, television, and independent cinema.
She's known for her roles in Dear White People, Creed, Thor Ragnarok, and other Marvel movies, Sorry to Bother You, and Passing.
For the Creed films, she co-wrote and performed all of her character Bianca's songs.
She began her career in theater before moving into television and film, and she's also starred in Nia DaCosta's feature debut, Little Woods, and has continued to collaborate with her on subsequent projects, including DaCosta's Hedda, an interpretation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, Hedda Gabler, for which Thompson has earned a Golden Globe nomination.
Your first TV role before Veronica Mars, because people talk about Veronica Mars as your breakthrough role.
But before any of that, you were a lesbian bootlegger from the 1930s on the show Cold Case.
You know, but you talked about being drawn to characters that don't fit neatly, who, you know, they cross lines, they resist categories.
You know, you go out and you audition, or whoever represents you says, oh, here's a role for you to go to, to audition for.
But like, this is a pretty specific role to say, like, I want to go for this, you know?
This collage that you made with these little handwritten notes, that's something that is a through line that I see in a lot of the roles that you ultimately got.
I mean, there's this story about you writing Tyler Perry.
First off, you sent a tape to Tyler Perry for Colored Girls after you heard that the film was already cast.
I mean, for colored girls, it's a raw poetic exploration of what it means to be black and a woman in America.
When you go back and watch it, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Felicia Rashad.