Round 3: Tossup 6

The career of an actress with this surname and the first name Theresa inspired Lynn Nottage’s (“NOT-idge’s”) play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. An actor with this surname directed and starred as a Detroit con artist in the 1989 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film (15[1])Chameleon Street. A playwright with this surname worked with Janicza Bravo (“juh-NICK-zuh BRAH-vo”) to adapt a Twitter thread into the screenplay of the film (15[1])Zola. (15[2])An actress with this surname (15[1])looks into the camera and says “well, I’m your mama, ain’t I?” in a film in which her character is based on the mother of the screenwriter, (*) Tarell (10[1])Alvin McCraney. (10[1])That actress with this surname had just three shooting days during a press tour to play a woman who tells her son “you ain’t got to love me, but you gonna know that I love you.” That woman played by an actress with this surname buys drugs from Juan, a dealer played by Mahershala Ali. For 10 points, give this surname of the English actress who played (10[1])Chiron’s (“shy-ROHN’s”) mother in Moonlight. ■END■ (0[2])

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