Angela Bassett
Known for: Acting
Born: August 15, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett had her breakthrough portraying singer Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which won her a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had success starring in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Music of the Heart (1999). In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama Notorious (2009) and the action films Green Lantern (2011), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), and London Has Fallen (2016). She also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). For the latter, she won another Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, Bassett has starred as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). Her portrayal of Rosa Parks in the television film The Rosa Parks Story (2002) gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story earned her nominations for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the Fox drama series 9-1-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Strange Days
Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Meet the Robinsons
Mildred (voice)
Boyz n the Hood
Reva Styles
Contact
Rachel Constantine
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Self
Malcolm X
Betty Shabazz
Supernova
Kaela Evers
Gospel Hill
Sarah Malcolm
The Score
Diane
Waiting to Exhale
Bernadine
Masked and Anonymous
Mistress
Vampire in Brooklyn
Detective Rita Veder
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Stella Payne
Music of the Heart
Janet
Critters 4
Fran
Innocent Blood
U.S. Attorney Sinclair
Akeelah and the Bee
Tanya Anderson
One Special Victory
Lois
Notorious
Voletta Wallace
Passion Fish
Rhonda / Dawn
Nothing But the Truth
Bonnie Benjamin
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Narrator (voice)
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
What's Love Got to Do with It
Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner