Biography

Tessa Lynne Thompson (born 3 October 1983), addressed officially as Tessa Thompson, is a competent and proficient actress from the United States.

While studying at Santa Monica College, she explored her acting potential with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company.

For the remarkable role she portrayed in a film titled The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, Tessa Thompson was nominated for an NAACP Theatre Award.

Let’s take a sneak preview at some interesting facts about the life of this amazing actress.

Tessa Thompson
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Wiki Facts & About Data
Full Name:	Tessa Lynne Thompson
Stage Name:	Tessa Thompson
Born:	3 October 1983 (age 40 years old)
Place of Birth:	Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality:	American
Height:	1.62 m
Parents:	Marc Anthony Thompson
Siblings:	Zsela Thompson
Wife • Husband • Spouse:	Not Married
Boyfriend • Girlfriend • Partner:	Janelle Monáe (rum.), Dev Hynes (rum.), Taika Waititi (rum.), Rita Ora (rum.), Zac Stenmark (rum.)
Children:	N/A
Occupation:	Actress • TV Personality
Net Worth:	US$4 million

Early Life & Education

Tessa Thompson was born on the 3rd day of October in the year 1983, in Los Angeles, California. But she grew up in Brooklyn, New York, after being born in Los Angeles. Her father, Marc Anthony Thompson, is Afro-Panamanian. She is aged 40 years.

Her mother’s ancestry is half Mexican, half European. She also has a younger half-sister, simply known as Zsela Thompson, and she is also a singer and a songwriter.

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Tessa Thompson received her high education at the Santa Monica High School. During her high school days, she played the role of Hermia in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At Santa Monica College (SMC), she majored in cultural anthropology.

Also, while she was studying at Santa Monica College, she attended lectures by Lisa Wolpe of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company (LAWSC).

Personal Life

Tessa Thompson has been sincerely connected to five individuals we are aware of. As indicated by sources, in 2015, she was connected to Grammy-named vocalist Janelle Monáe when she featured as a reinforcement artist in Janelle Monáe‘s “Yoga” video. The pair were then captured together at the 2015 MOCA affair. Nonetheless, the bits of gossip truly started to surface in 2018 when Janelle Monáe dropped her music video for her collection Dirty Computer, and Tessa Thompson was highlighted a ton in the video.

What truly persuaded individuals to think that the two were a thing was when Tessa Thompson did a meeting with Net-A-Porter in 2018. In this meeting, Tessa Thompson admitted that she and Janelle Monáe profoundly love each other and that she’s fine assuming individuals estimate what they are to one another. However, at that point, she later says in a tweet that she never said she was seeing someone. So we won’t ever be aware, assuming Tessa Thompson and Janelle Monáe truly dated. In any case, I figure they did.

The second individual Tessa Thompson was reputed to date was English artist Dev Hynes in 2019. They were seen out in a few places together, which persuaded individuals to think they were dating. In 2020, they were spotted at the get-together for the debut of Sylvie’s Love, and Tessa Thompson was seen cozying it up with the artist. Since they were spotted at Milan Fashion Week in 2020, we hadn’t seen the pair together once more.

In 2021, sketchy pictures emerged from Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, and Rita Ora hanging out together, and bits of hearsay spread that the threesome was in a polyamorous relationship. In one photograph, Tessa Thompson was seen kissing Rita Ora, and in another photograph, the three are personally embracing one another. We couldn’t know what was happened in the photographs. However, we get it was only three companions appreciating every other’s conversation? Tessa Thompson never came out and talked about the circumstance.

The last individual we’ve seen Tessa Thompson in a cozy way is Australian model Zac Stenmark. On May 23, she was seen kissing him and clasping hands in Australia. In any case, it’s indistinct if they are dating since we haven’t seen Tessa Thompson with him from that point forward. So until Tessa Thompson really comes out and says she’s dating somebody, we must trust she’s single.

At the moment, TheCityCeleb does not have any valid details concerning the personal life and romance of the actress; however, In the month of June 2018, Tessa Thompson revealed that she is attracted to both men and women but does not identify herself as a bisexual.

Career

Tessa Thompson made her first professional movie debut in the year 2002 as one of three Ariels in LAWSC’s production of The Tempest. In the year 2003, she was nominated for the NAACP Theatre Award for the outstanding role she played in the blockbuster film titled Romeo and Juliet: Tessa Thompson played the role of Juliet in the blockbuster film.

She also made another television debut in the 2005 episode of the CBS crime drama series titled Cold Case, where she played the role of a lesbian bootlegger from the 1930s.

Tessa Thompson reportedly got propelled to stardom in the same year of 2005 as Jackie Cook on the UPN/CW neo-noir drama series titled Veronica Mars, where she featured as a regular in the second season. In 2006, she appeared on the ABC medical drama series known as ER.

Aside from movie acting, Tessa Thompson is also a talented singer and songwriter. She used to be a member of the Los Angeles-based indie electro-soul band named, Caught A Ghost, and she contributed to the soundtracks for both Creed and Creed II.

Tessa Thompson co-wrote and performed a number of songs with a renowned producer named Moses Sumney.

Net Worth

At the moment, Tessa Thompson has a whopping net worth estimation of US$4 million.

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Social Media

• Instagram handle: @tessamaethompson

Filmography

• When a Stranger Calls
• Make It Happen
• The Human Contract
• Mississippi Damned
• Everyday Black Man
• Exquisite Corpse
• For Colored Girls
• Red & Blue Marbles
• Periphery