Tessa Thompson

The actress Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on the 3rd of October 1983 in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter and grandaughter of singer Marc Anthony Thompson, as in addition to actor Bobby Ramos. Her childhood was spent with her in Los Angeles, before she made the move to Brooklyn. She's of Mexican, British Isles and Afro-Panamanian origin. Thompson was a student at Santa Monica High School, where she played in numerous theatre productions. The years that followed her graduation, she enrolled at Santa Monica College where she obtained a degree in cultural anthropology. She performed as Juliet in the William Shakespeare play "Romeo and Juliet" as part of a show held by the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, California. It was her nomination for the NAACP Theatre Award in the same year. Tessa made her debut on TV in 2005. She was on the show as on a CBS Series.