Angela Bassett profile
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Angela Bassett

16th August 1958 New York City, New York, USA Acting

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.

95 Movies 65 TV Shows 1 In Production 161 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Damsel poster
Damsel 7th March 2024 as Lady Bayford
TINA poster
TINA 20th August 2021 as Self
Soul poster
Soul 25th December 2020 as Dorothea (voice)
The Flood poster
The Flood 25th November 2018 as Self - Narrator (voice)
Chi-Raq poster
Chi-Raq 4th December 2015 as Miss Helen Worthy
Survivor poster
Survivor 21st May 2015 as Maureen Cranepaul
Mr. 3000 poster
Mr. 3000 15th June 2004 as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
Contact poster
Contact 11th July 1997 as Rachel Constantine
Panther poster
Panther 3rd May 1995 as Dr. Betty Shabazz
Liberty poster
Liberty 23rd June 1986 as Linda Thornton
F/X poster
F/X 7th February 1986 as TV reporter
Doubletake poster
Doubletake 24th November 1985 as Prostitute at Headquarters
Zero Day poster
Zero Day 20th February 2025 as President Evelyn Mitchell
Queens poster
Queens 4th March 2024 as Narrator (voice)
Sherri poster
Sherri 12th September 2022 as Self - Guest
9-1-1 poster
9-1-1 3rd January 2018 as Athena Grant
Steve poster
Steve 5th September 2017 as Self
Alias poster
Alias 30th September 2001 as Hayden Chase
ER poster
ER 19th September 1994 as Catherine Banfield
Stat poster
Stat 16th April 1991 as Dr. Willie Burns
Snoops poster
Snoops 22nd September 1989 as Laura Hale
227 poster
227 14th September 1985
Wildwood poster Coming soon
Wildwood 22nd October 2026 as The General (voice)