Angela Bassett
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.
Filmography (44)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Damsel
Orion and the Dark
Heist 88
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Wendell & Wild
Gunpowder Milkshake
Soul
Avengers: Endgame
Otherhood
Black Panther
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Bumblebee
London Has Fallen
Survivor
White Bird in a Blizzard
Olympus Has Fallen
This Means War
Green Lantern
Jumping the Broom
Notorious
Meet the Browns
Gospel Hill
Nothing But the Truth
Meet the Robinsons
Akeelah and the Bee
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Masked and Anonymous
The Score
Supernova
Music of the Heart
Contact
Strange Days
Vampire in Brooklyn
Waiting to Exhale
Panther
What's Love Got to Do with It
Malcolm X
Critters 4
Passion Fish
Innocent Blood
Boyz n the Hood
Kindergarten Cop
