Roxanne Purley

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Roxanne Purley is the young Black woman at the heart of Mike Leigh’s film "Secrets & Lies," whose search for her birth mother exposes long-buried family tensions and emotional truths.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
adoptiveParents middle-class Black couple
appearsIn 1996 film Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED
Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED
associatedWith Hortense Cumberbatch’s adoptive family
Purley family NERFINISHED
biologicalMother Cynthia Purley NERFINISHED
centralCharacterOf Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
createdBy Mike Leigh NERFINISHED
emotionalArc from guarded and skeptical to more open and connected
ethnicity Black
familyBackground adopted
filmGenreContext British social realist drama
firstMeetingWithMotherLocation Cynthia Purley’s home
gender female
languageSpoken English
medium live-action film
narrativeFunction catalyst for family revelations
narrativeRole protagonist
occupation optometrist
portrayedBy Marianne Jean-Baptiste NERFINISHED
residence London, England
surface form: London
searchesFor birth mother
themeAssociation class and race in Britain
family secrets
identity
transracial adoption
timePeriod contemporary Britain of the mid-1990s

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Maurice Purley in Secrets & Lies associatedWith Roxanne Purley
subject surface form: Maurice Purley
Secrets & Lies mainCharacter Roxanne Purley