Tessa Thompson

Tessa Lynn Thompson is an American actress, born the 3rd of October, 1983 in Los Angeles. The actress is the daughter of Marc Anthony Thompson (a singer/songwriter) and the granddaughter Bobby Ramos, an actor/musician. The majority of her childhood was spent in Los Angeles, before she made the move to Brooklyn. Thompson is Mexican, British Isles and Afro-Panamanian origin. Thompson was a part of various productions at Santa Monica High School. In the years following her graduation, she enrolled at Santa Monica College where she earned a degree on cultural Anthropology. At Pasadena's Boston Court Theatre, she appeared as Juliet in Shakespeare's "Romeo as well as Juliet". The performance brought her an NAACP Theatre nomination the same year. Away from the theatre stage, In 2005, Tessa had her first television appearance as she appeared on the CBS program