Angela Bassett

Known for ActingBorn 1958-08-16 (age 68)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Inside the Dream: Mugler

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

BoJack Horseman

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

9-1-1: Nashville

Butterfly in the Sky

Avengers: Endgame

9-1-1

9-1-1: Lone Star

The Imagineering Story

Soul

What If...?

Reading Rainbow

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

American Horror Story

Between the World and Me

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

Queens

Our America

Tour of Duty

One Special Victory

TINA

Critics Choice Awards

The Simpsons

Good Night Oppy

Of Boys and Men

ER

Trailblazer Honors

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Marvel Studios Legends

Black Panther

Malcolm X

Boyz n the Hood

Master of None

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

The Emmy Awards

Contact

Betty and Coretta

The Flash

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Damsel

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Zero Day

The Snowy Day

The Rosa Parks Story