
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 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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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

Alias

The Cosby Show

Doctor Odyssey

Master of None

The Bernie Mac Show

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Golden Globe Awards

Finding Your Roots

Marvel Studios Legends

What If...?

Tour of Duty

227

The Flash

Critics Choice Awards

Nightmare Cafe

Number One on the Call Sheet

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

American Horror Story

Avengers: Endgame

Bumblebee

Kindergarten Cop

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

ER

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Family of Spies

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Black Panther

Soul

Zero Day

Olympus Has Fallen

Meet the Robinsons

Masked and Anonymous

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

This Means War

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

Contact

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Green Lantern

Wendell & Wild

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Notorious

Gunpowder Milkshake

Boyz n the Hood

The Apollo

White Bird in a Blizzard

Survivor

The Score

Chi-Raq

Time Bomb

London Has Fallen

Akeelah and the Bee

Orion and the Dark

MPower

Damsel

Malcolm X

Supernova

Otherhood

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

The Rosa Parks Story

The Imagineering Story

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

What's Love Got to Do with It

9-1-1

Good Night Oppy

Meet the Browns
Production Credits
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