Tessa Thompson

Tessa Lynn Thompson is an American actress who was born the 3rd of October, 1983 at Los Angeles. Thompson is the daughter granddaughter of the singer Marc Anthony Thompson, as in addition to actor Bobby Ramos. Her early years were spent at Los Angeles, before she was moved to Brooklyn. She is of Mexican, British Isles and Afro-Panamanian heritage. Thompson was a student at Santa Monica High School, which she appeared in numerous theatre productions. The years that followed her graduation she attended Santa Monica College where she graduated with a degree in culture Anthropology. She performed as Juliet in the William Shakespeare play "Romeo and Juliet" in a production performed by the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, California. Her performance from earned her the NAACP Theatre nomination the same year. Tessa began her television debut in 2005. She was on the show as the lead in a CBS Series.