Angela Bassett
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 16, 1958
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Erika Sloane
as Self
as President Evelyn Mitchell
as Athena Grant
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Lady Bayford
as Narrator (voice)
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
as Self
as Decoy (voice)
as Ramonda
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Sister Helley (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Queen Ramonda (voice)
as Anna May
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Dorothea (voice)
as Self
as Sergeant Athena Grant
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Carol Walker
as Ramonda
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Shatter (voice)
as Erika Sloane
as Self
as Ramonda
as Athena Grant
as Nana (voice)
as Eva
as Lynne Jacobs
as Miss Helen Worthy
as Catherine
as Maureen Cranepaul
as Self - Guest
as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
as Dr. Thaler
as Ana Spanakopita (voice)
as Self
as Aretha Cobbs
as Self
as Lynne Jacobs
as Coretta Scott King
as Self - Special Guest
as Self
as Collins
as Desiree Dupree
as Ramona Royale
as Monet Tumissee
as Marie Laveau
as Dr. Amanda Waller
as Mrs. Watson
as Self (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Voletta Wallace
as Narrator (voice)
as Bonnie Benjamin
as Rieta Cole
as Brenda Brown
as Sarah Malcolm
as Mildred (voice)
as Tanya Anderson
as Jill Greco
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
as Self
as Mistress
as Desiree Perry
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
as Herself
as Ruby Delacroix
as Angela Bassett
as Hayden Chase
as Diane
as Self - Presenter
as Lena
as Groove (voice)
as Dr. Kaela Evers
as Janet
as Miles' Mom (voice)
as Stella Payne
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Rachel Constantine
as Bernadine
as Detective Rita Veder
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
as Dr. Betty Shabazz
as Catherine Banfield
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
as Rhonda / Dawn
as Betty Shabazz
as Katherine Jackson
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
as Fran
as Evelyn Wall
as Lois
as Willie
as Reesha
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
as Reva Styles
as Dr. Willie Burns
as Allison
as Stewardess
as Linda Lake
as Carla Peters
as Cheryl McNair
as Bev Andress
as Michelle Obama (voice)
as Laura Hale
as Lt. Camilla Patterson
as Linda Thornton
as TV reporter
as Prostitute at Headquarters
as Sara
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as General (voice)