Angela Bassett
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Biography
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
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. This led to starring roles as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992), as the mother of The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009), and as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011). Her other notable film roles were in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). She has 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 a Golden Globe Award and has been 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 a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
Known For
The Oscars
The Late Late Show with James Corden
9-1-1: Lone Star
BoJack Horseman
The Simpsons
The Kelly Clarkson Show
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Cosby Show
Alias
The Bernie Mac Show
Master of None
Golden Globe Awards
Finding Your Roots
Marvel Studios Legends
What If...?
Tour of Duty
227
The Flash
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Nightmare Cafe
A Black Lady Sketch Show
American Horror Story
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Bumblebee
Avengers: Endgame
Kindergarten Cop
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Family of Spies
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Black Panther
Soul
Olympus Has Fallen
Meet the Robinsons
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
ER
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Contact
White Bird in a Blizzard
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Zero Day
Green Lantern
Wendell & Wild
Notorious
Gunpowder Milkshake
Boyz n the Hood
This Means War
The Apollo
Chi-Raq
Survivor
The Score
Time Bomb
Akeelah and the Bee
Damsel
MPower
Orion and the Dark
London Has Fallen
Malcolm X
Supernova
The Imagineering Story
The Rosa Parks Story
Good Night Oppy
9-1-1
Otherhood
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
What's Love Got to Do with It
Production Credits
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