- Tessa Thompson wore a gorgeous backless, strapless dress to the 2026 Golden Globes.
- The actor is nominated for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Hedda.
- Tessa said playing the character of Hedda “was a gift.”
Tessa Thompson just arrived at the 2026 Golden Globes and is an immediate contender for the best bressed list. The actor wore a backless, sleeveless dress covered in green sequins, and it is genuinely stuuuunning.
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A moment for the backless design:
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Tessa is nominated for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Hedda, alongside Jennifer Lawrence for Die My Love, Eva Victor for Sorry Baby, Julia Roberts for After the Hunt, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value, and Jessie Buckley for Hamnet.
“My heart was racing when the call of good news woke me! I thought I overslept and missed something, I may have shrieked and then my mind raced double time when I understood why,” Tessa said of her nomination. “Amazingly, the dog is still sleeping! It’s an incredible and surreal honor to be nominated alongside these stunning performances and women. Thank you to my inspiration, dear friend and visionary Nia DaCosta for trusting me to be your Hedda, to our amazing collaborators at Amazon MGM Studios/Orion for championing this film, to the talented craftspeople, crew and cast most especially the extraordinary Nina Hoss—my performance is buoyed by all of their brilliance.”
She added, “Playing an iconic canonical character was a gift because every day I felt connected to the generations of storytellers before and after me, committed to trying to shed some light on the beautiful, impossible, scary, and wondrous thing of what is is to be a human. Thank you to the Golden Globes for celebrating what we do, and for this nomination.”
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