Angela Bassett
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
156
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-08-16 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
9-1-1
The Kelly Clarkson Show
American Horror Story
American Horror Story
American Horror Story
American Horror Story
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sherri
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
ER
9-1-1: Lone Star
BoJack Horseman
The View
The View
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Cosby Show
What If...?
Tamron Hall
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Reading Rainbow
Avengers: Endgame
The Bernie Mac Show
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
thirtysomething
Tour of Duty
Marvel Studios Legends
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Meet the Robinsons
Soul
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
227
Damsel
Finding Your Roots
The Oscars
Olympus Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Flash
Zero Day
Spenser: For Hire
Green Lantern
Master of None
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Survivor
Orion and the Dark
Doctor Odyssey
Malcolm X
Bumblebee
The Arsenio Hall Show
Meet the Browns
Queens
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Number One on the Call Sheet
Alias
Contact
Red Table Talk
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
Akeelah and the Bee
Snoops
Nothing But the Truth
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Vampire in Brooklyn
Wendell & Wild
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
TINA
Supernova
City of Hope
The Score
Jumping the Broom
The Rosa Parks Story
Music of the Heart
Boyz n the Hood
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Chi-Raq
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
Notorious
Strange Days
White Bird in a Blizzard
Black Nativity
Between the World and Me
Waiting to Exhale
Trailblazer Honors
This Means War
Of Boys and Men
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
The Emmy Awards
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
Betty and Coretta
Critics Choice Awards
Butterfly in the Sky
One Special Victory
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Liberty
What's Love Got to Do with It
Critters 4
MPower
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Challenger
F/X
The Jacksons: An American Dream
Mr. 3000
Nightmare Cafe
A Man Called Hawk
Panther
Close to the Enemy
Kindergarten Cop
Time Bomb
Doubletake
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Innocent Blood
Gunpowder Milkshake
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Wildwood
Sunshine State
The Apollo
Our Friend, Martin
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Family of Spies
The Imagineering Story
The Snowy Day
Stat
Good Night Oppy
Gospel Hill
In the Best Interest of the Child
Otherhood
Masked and Anonymous
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Passion Fish
Inside the Dream: Mugler
Boesman and Lena
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
Attorneys At Love
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Malika the Lion Queen
The Lazarus Child
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
The Flood
Making "The Score"
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
The Heroes of Desert Storm
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
