Angela Bassett
Biography
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-08-16
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Images
Cast
Strange Days
1995
7.00
Meet the Robinsons
2007
6.90
Boyz n the Hood
1991
7.63
Contact
1997
7.43
Malcolm X
1992
7.53
Supernova
2000
4.90
Gospel Hill
2008
4.80
The Score
2001
6.70
Waiting to Exhale
1995
6.28
Masked and Anonymous
2003
5.10
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
5.10
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
5.80
Music of the Heart
1999
6.70
Critters 4
1992
5.00
Innocent Blood
1992
6.10
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
7.09
One Special Victory
1991
0.00
Notorious
2009
6.93
Passion Fish
1992
6.80
Nothing But the Truth
2008
6.95
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
7.10
Green Lantern
2011
5.17
The Lazarus Child
2004
5.60
Mr. 3000
2004
5.30
Meet the Browns
2008
6.70
The Rosa Parks Story
2002
7.20
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
2000
5.50
Sunshine State
2002
6.40
Jumping the Broom
2011
5.90
This Means War
2012
6.18
Wendell & Wild
2022
6.68
Panther
1995
6.30
Boesman and Lena
2000
6.30
Damsel
2024
7.03
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
6.40
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
2001
6.10
Betty and Coretta
2013
7.17
Our Friend, Martin
1999
7.40
Black Nativity
2013
5.00
Liberty
1986
0.00
Of Boys and Men
2008
7.70
Doubletake
1985
5.20
F/X
1986
6.56
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
1991
0.00
Wildwood
0.00
London Has Fallen
2016
6.21
Orion and the Dark
2024
6.57
Good Night Oppy
2022
7.60
Survivor
2015
5.67
Chi-Raq
2015
5.80
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
8.00
Black Panther
2018
7.37
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
0.00
The Snowy Day
2016
7.00
The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991
2.50
Kindergarten Cop
1990
6.11
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
7.40
Challenger
1990
6.20
City of Hope
1991
6.70
Otherhood
2019
6.20
Time Bomb
2006
5.50
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
7.07
Bumblebee
2018
6.72
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
6.30
The Flood
2018
5.70
Attorneys At Love
2020
0.00
The Apollo
2019
6.47
Avengers: Endgame
2019
8.24
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
1.50
Between the World and Me
2020
7.90
Soul
2020
8.11
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
6.69
TINA
2021
7.70
Malika the Lion Queen
2021
5.00
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
1991
3.50
Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024
8.50
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014
6.17
