CeleBeauty Watch: Tessa Thompson Covers the December/January 2021/2022 InStyle

Tessa Thompson covers the InStyle December/January 2021/2022 Issue. Thompson has quite an impressive filmography resume for her 38 years. Among them, the Marvel superheroine Valkyrie; a civil rights leader in Selma; a defiant artist-activist in Sorry to Bother You; a calculating boss lady turned robot in Westworld; a woman born out of Janelle Monáe’s vagina pants in the music video “Pynk.”

Born in California and partially raised in New York, Thompson got her start at the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, starring in the tragic comedy The Tempest in 2002. Three years later she began a string of steady television roles on shows like Cold Case, Veronica Mars, Hidden Palms, and Heroes. By 2009, she had transitioned to film with breakthrough performances in Mississippi Damned and, a year later, For Colored Girls. InStyle.com

Photography by AB+DM/The Only Agency. Styling by Katie Mossman/The Wall Group. Hair by Lacy Redway. Makeup. by Nina Park/Kalpana. Manicure by Stephanie Stone/Forward Artists. Production by Viewfinders