Tessa Lynn Thompson, commonly known as Tessa Thompson, is an American actress. She was born on October 3, 1983, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Tessa Thompson age is 34 years old. Tessa Thompson height is 5 feet 4 inches or 164 centimeters. Tessa Thompson weight is 121 pounds or 55 kilograms. Her measurements are 34-27-35 and she wears a 32B bra size. She has an athletic body. Her trademarks are her lips and her eyes. Her hair color is black and her eyes are dark brown. Tessa Thompson shoe size is 7.5 (US) and her dress size is 8 (US). Tessa Thompson net worth in 2019 is $4 million.
Tessa Thompson Education
She attended Santa Monica High School and the Santa Monica College, where she studied cultural anthropology.
Tessa Thompson Family
Tessa Thompson father, Marc Anthony Thompson, is a singer and songwriter. Tessa Thompson mother is of Mexican and European descent. Tessa also has a younger sister.
Tessa is the granddaughter of actor/musician Bobby Ramos, one of the first Mexican-Americans to have his own television show (“Latin Cruise” for KTLA).
Tessa Thompson Filmography/ Career
Tessa’s first significant part was in a 2002 adaptation of “The Tempest” delivered by Los Angeles’ Women’s Shakespeare Company. The next year she featured as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” at the Antebellum New Orleans, for which she earned a selection for an NAACP Theater Award.
Tessa Thompson made her movie debut with a horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006). After that, she appeared in various TV shows such as Veronica Mars (2005-2006), Grey’s Anatomy (2006), Hidden Palms (2007), Private Practice (2009), Heroes (2009), Three Rivers (2009), Blue Belle (2010), Detroit 1-8-7 (2010-2011), 666 Park Avenue (2010-2013), and Copper (2012-2013).
Later on, she played Samantha White in Dear White People (2014) and that year, assumed a part in Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Tessa additionally featured in Creed (2015) as Bianca with Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone.
Most recently, she was appeared as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) with Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Additionally, she assumed the part of Josie in the science fiction spine chiller Annihilation (2018), with Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
In 2018, Tessa Thompson will reprise her role as Bianca in Creed II, a sequel to the 2015 film Creed and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series.
Tessa Thompson Net Worth
Tessa Thompson net worth is estimated at $4 million. The net worth of Tessa Thompson includes remuneration from movies.
Tessa Thompson Relationships/ Boyfriend/ Affairs
There isn’t a lot of information about Tessa Thompson romantic relationships since she enjoys keeping her personal life private.
Some Interesting and Unknown Facts About Tessa Thompson
- Part of the Los Angeles band Caught A Ghost with Jesse Nolan. The band just completed its debut album Human Nature.
- She said:
“As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older – I realized they were really cool.”
- She said:
“There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.”
- She said:
“I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it’s really temperate. There aren’t any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it’s a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together.”