In my opinion, Tessa Thompson is a pretty good actress, even though I have only seen her on the wonderful cult hit UPN show 'Veronica Mars'. Her lines are (for the most part) well delivered and believable, even though sometimes her performance seems a little sloppy and unbelievable.
However, I have seen much better actresses in the past, it seems that Tess Thompson does not have much experience. Hopefully in the future, she'll be more experienced and a much better actress. I looked at her IMDB profile, and I also found out she's in the big motion picture "When A Stranger Calls", which looks very entertaining.moreless
Tessa Thompson
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Los Angeles, CaliforniaBirth Name
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Tessa Thompson recently made her debut on television as guest star on "Cold Case" and also made an appearance on "Grey's Anatomy". She is, however, mostly known for her role as Jackie Cook on the second season of "Veronica Mars". She also appeared in the recent remake of…more
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Star (10)
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Copper
Sara Freeman
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Ep 1
Home, Sweet Home
6/23/13
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Ep 10
A Vast and Fiendish Plot
10/21/12
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Ep 9
A Day to Give Thanks
10/14/12
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Ep 8
Better Times Are Coming
10/7/12
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Ep 7
The Hudson River School
9/30/12
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Home, Sweet Home
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Everyday Black Man
Star2011
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For Colored Girls
Nyla/Purple2010
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Hidden Palms
Nikki Barnes (Episode 2+)
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Ep 8
Second Chances
7/4/07
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Ep 7
Stand By Your Woman
6/27/07
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Ep 6
Dangerous Liaisons
6/27/07
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Ep 4
What Liza Beneath
6/20/07
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Ep 5
Mulligan
6/20/07
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Ep 8
Second Chances
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Hidden Palms
Nikki Barnes
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Veronica Mars
Jackie Cook
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Ep 22
Not Pictured
5/9/06
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Happy Go Lucky
5/2/06
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Look Who's Stalking
4/25/06
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Nevermind the Buttocks
4/18/06
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Plan B
4/5/06
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The Initiation of Sarah
Esme2006
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When a Stranger Calls
Scarlet2006
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Mississippi Damned
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Changelings
Jenny Morello
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666 Park Avenue
Laurel Harris
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666 Park Avenue
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Rizzoli & Isles
Special Agent Anna Farrell
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
12/5/11
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
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Detroit 1-8-7
Lauren Washington
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Blackout
3/20/11
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Home Invasion/Drive-By
11/30/10
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Local Hero/Overboard
9/28/10
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Blackout
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Off the Map
Sydney
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A Doctor Time Out
1/26/11
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A Doctor Time Out
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Three Rivers
Penelope Kirkell
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A Roll of the Dice
6/12/10
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A Roll of the Dice
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Heroes
Rebecca Taylor
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Shadowboxing
11/9/09
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Strange Attractors
10/26/09
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Hysterical Blindness
10/12/09
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Shadowboxing
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Private Practice
Zoe
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Strange Bedfellows
10/29/09
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Yours, Mine and Ours
4/30/09
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Strange Bedfellows
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Mental
Lainey Jefferson
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Lines in the Sand
8/7/09
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Lines in the Sand
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Life
Liza
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Trapdoor
12/17/08
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Trapdoor
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Grey's Anatomy
Camille
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Ep 26
Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response
5/15/06
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Losing My Religion
5/15/06
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Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response
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Cold Case
Billie Ducette (1932)
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Best Friends
5/8/05
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Best Friends
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Rizzoli & Isles
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Trivia
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Tessa Thompson is the daughter of singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson, of the New York based band Chocolate Genius
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In 2006, Tessa starred as Esme (a sorority girl) in the made for TV horror/thriller movie The Initiation of Sarah.
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Tessa thanks TV and films for her success, but has stated that she would love to do theatre again.
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Tessa has done a lot of Shakespeare plays in her theatre years.
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Tessa has stated that she thinks it's more important that people like her performances thanif they like her characters. It's hard to distinguish the differences between the hate for a character and the hate for the actor.
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Tessa has done a lot of theatre plays and a couple of movies during her career as an actress, but her role on Veronica Mars was her first appearance on TV.
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Tessa recently appeared as a small role in the re-make of the movie When A Stranger Calls
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Tessa has stated that she identifies with her character on Veronica Mars, Jackie, to that extent that she's a sensitive girl, that comes off strong and self-confident.
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Tessa moved around much as a kid, and therefore experienced a lot of "Teasing-of-the-new-kid". She's stated that she used some of that experience when playing Jackie Cook on Veronica Mars.
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Tessa's parents are divorced.
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Tessa is of African American heritage, and also has roots in Mexico.
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Tessa only appeared as Jackie Cook on Veronica Mars during Season 2. She never appeared in its Third Season.
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Tessa is most notably known for her role as Jackie on Veronica Mars.
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Her first stage role was a tap-dancing wolf in her fifth grade play.
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Tessa (About her leaving the set of Veronica Mars and stealing something from it): I have put in a request to take home the wig that Percy Daggs III wears. For sentimental reasons. We'll see... Just kidding!
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Tessa (About the Season 2 finale of Veronica Mars): The writers have some serious tricks up their sleeves, and I was crazy impressed.
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Tessa: If they made a TV remake of Veronica Mars - like thirty years later, I guess I'd come back and be Jackie. You know, finally expose the truth of the pill popping we saw early in the season. Who knows? Maybe she was the way she was because she had gender confusion, and was planning to undergo gender reassignment- thus the pills. So in the remake I could be "Jack". And all along my animosity for Veronica was love. Maybe finally in the remake Veronica and I could be a couple. The network could break all kinds of boundaries with that plot line!
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Tessa (About her character on Veronica Mars): I thought Jackie was cool. She is this stuck up classy sassafrassy prissy, a la Paris Hilton but she reads Burroughs? I relished the contradiction.
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Tessa: Was some of the online hate hard to bare when I read it? Sure. Of course. But I decided to a.) stop reading it altogether and b.) realize that I don't do what I do to be liked or praised.
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Tessa: If Jackie was going to off a bunch of people, she might have made sure that Madison and assorted others were included.
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