Tessa Thompsons 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Roles Ranked By IMDb

Tessa Thompson’s 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Roles, Ranked By IMDb

Tessa Thompson has had many great roles in movies and TV shows so far but a few are best left forgotten. Here are the best and the worst of them.

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One of many talented actresses whose skills have been applied to the world of comic book superheroes, Tessa Thompson is known among MCU fans for her work as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame. Thompson has been on the scene since the early 2000s, and her filmography includes tons of TV and films.

When she isn’t playing historical figures like Diane Nash in Selma, Thompson tends to show up in sci-fi movies and TV shows. There’s Westworld, Sorry to Bother You, and Men in Black to name a few. She’s also known for acting in projects that tackle racism and white supremacy head-on, including Dear White People and Mississippi Damned.

10 Worst: Nia Palmer In Murder On The 13th Floor (2012) – 4.8

Murder on the 13th Floor is a melodramatic Lifetime thriller about a bizarre love triangle. Jordan Ladd and Sean Patrick Thomas play Ariana and Jordan Braxton, whose marriage is on the rocks.

It’s made worse by the arrival of Thompson’s character Nia, who serves as a live-in nanny for their son Cody. As it goes with these kinds of films, Ariana plots to kill Nia, who becomes pregnant with Jordan’s baby.

9 Worst: Scarlett In When A Stranger Calls (2006) – 5.1

The remake of When a Stranger Calls is a forgettable, unnecessary film. In her first feature film role, Thompson co-stars alongside Camilla Belle. Belle plays Jill, a high schooler whose dad forces her to take a babysitting job in order to pay off her exorbitant cell phone bill.

While watching over the Mandrakis children, Jill starts to receive prank phone calls that soon escalate to death threats, leaving her to fight for her life. Thompson plays Jill’s best friend Scarlett.

8 Worst: Claire In Everyday Black Man (2010) – 5.2

Carmen Madden’s Everyday Black Man centers around a grocery store owner named Moses, a man with a criminal past. Henry Brown plays Moses, and Thompson plays his daughter Claire.

Claire is unaware Moses is her biological father, and he must watch on as a crook named Malik tries to take advantage of her. While its performances are good, Everday Black Man proves to be a pretty standard fare family thriller.

7 Worst: Wallis In Grantham & Rose (2014) – 5.5

Grantham & Rose is an unfocused, forgotten road-tripping drama directed by Kristin Hanggi. It follows a juvenile delinquent and the 81-year-old Black woman who forces him to join her on a cross-country expedition.

Thompson plays Wallis, a drifting shoplifter the titular characters pick up along their way. In addition to its aimless plot, Grantham & Rose suffers from one-dimensional characterizations.

6 Worst: Dana In Make It Happen (2008) – 5.5

Thompson’s second feature-length film is the dance drama Make It Happen, co-written by the same person responsible for Step Up and Save the Last Dance. Make It Happen stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a small-town Indian girl who travels to Chicago to make it big in the dancing world.

Thompson co-stars as Dana, a waitress who takes in Winstead’s character Lauryn. Reviews for the movie were dismal, as critics labeled it derivative, predictable, and boring.

5 Best: Rebecca Taylor In Heroes (2006 – 2010) – 7.5

It turns out Valkyrie isn’t the first superhero brought to life by Thompson. She co-stars in season four of the cult NBC show Heroes as Rebecca Taylor, who possesses the power to achieve invisibility.

Over her three-episode stint on the show, Taylor serves as a sort of foil to Hayden Panettiere’s character Claire Bennet. Many fans were upset when NBC canceled heroes at the end of the fourth season.

4 Best: Bianca In Creed (2015): 7.6

In Ryan Coogler’s Rocky sequel and spin-off Creed, Thompson plays the love interest of Michael B. Jordan’s titular character, the son of fictional boxer Apollo Creed — played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky movies. Jordan’s character Donnie is trained and mentored by none other than Rocky Balboa, who is of course portrayed by Sylvester Stallone.

Thompson’s character Bianca is a singer-songwriter with a hearing impairment. As Donnie prepares to take the world of lightweight division boxing by storm, he pursues a romance with Bianca.

3 Best: Valkyrie In Thor: Ragnaraok (2017): 7.9 & Avengers: Endgame (2019): 8.4

Valkyrie first meets the Hulk and Thor on Sakaar in Thor: Ragnarok, where she ends up after all of the other Valkyrior like her are massacred. Thompson plays up her superhero’s humanness, from her PTSD and alcoholism brought on by survivor’s guilt.

In Avengers: Endgame, Valkyrie settles into New Asgard on Earth, and she joins the final battle against alternate Thanos. Thompson and Valkyrie will return for the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder.

2 Best: Jackie Cook In Veronica Mars (2004 – 2019): 8.3

In Veronica Mars, Thompson found early career success playing Jackie Cook in the second season of UPN’s high school noir Veronica Mars. Thompson’s character served as the love interest for Percy Daggs III’s character Wallace Fennel.

Despite Thompson’s stellar acting, Jackie’s character arc annoyed a lot of fans, who rallied against her. She was ultimately written out of the series by the second season’s end.

1 Best: Charlotte Hale In Westworld (2016 – Present): 8.6

Thompson’s best role is also her most sinister: Charlotte Hale in the acclaimed sci-fi series Westworld. Hale is the ruthless director of the board overseeing Westworld who is eventually killed by Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores.

A host replica of Charlotte is created by Jeffrey Wright’s character Bernard, which Dolores uses to leave the host world and enter the human one. Thompson has received praise for her portrayal of the cunning in the series, one that contributes to the contrasts between the human characters and the hosts.

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