Tessa Thompson

 Tessa Lynne Thompson, born October 3 1983, is an American actor. While attending Santa Monica College, she began her professional acting career at the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. She was in the productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet and the latter which earned her an NAACP Theatre Award nomination. She was a star in Tina Mabry’s independent drama Mississippi Damned (2008) and Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls (2010). The latter earned her a NAACP Theatre Awards nomination. Her roles in franchise films have earned her acclaim in the mainstream, including as Bianca Taylor in Creed (2015) and Creed II (2018), and as Valkyrie in Marvel Cinematic Universe's superhero movies Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).