Angela Bassett
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
155
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
The Simpsons
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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 Show with Stephen Colbert
BoJack Horseman
ER
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Sherri
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
9-1-1: Lone Star
The View
The View
Tour of Duty
The Cosby Show
What If...?
Avengers: Endgame
Damsel
Tamron Hall
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Soul
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Bernie Mac Show
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Finding Your Roots
Black Panther
thirtysomething
Marvel Studios Legends
Zero Day
The Oscars
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Contact
Olympus Has Fallen
Spenser: For Hire
Doctor Odyssey
227
Meet the Robinsons
Bumblebee
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
The Arsenio Hall Show
London Has Fallen
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
The Flash
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Boyz n the Hood
Master of None
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Green Lantern
Black Nativity
Reading Rainbow
The Score
Notorious
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
Survivor
Otherhood
Malcolm X
Queens
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
Wildwood
Liberty
This Means War
Red Table Talk
Orion and the Dark
Alias
Gunpowder Milkshake
Number One on the Call Sheet
Akeelah and the Bee
Waiting to Exhale
Supernova
The Apollo
Challenger
TINA
MPower
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Mr. 3000
Nothing But the Truth
Sunshine State
Time Bomb
Wendell & Wild
F/X
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Critters 4
The Jacksons: An American Dream
Critics Choice Awards
Panther
Jumping the Broom
Kindergarten Cop
Gospel Hill
Trailblazer Honors
White Bird in a Blizzard
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Snoops
What's Love Got to Do with It
Innocent Blood
Strange Days
The Emmy Awards
Vampire in Brooklyn
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
The Snowy Day
Meet the Browns
Music of the Heart
City of Hope
Inside the Dream: Mugler
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
Passion Fish
The Rosa Parks Story
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
Masked and Anonymous
Good Night Oppy
Our Friend, Martin
Chi-Raq
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Close to the Enemy
Butterfly in the Sky
Nightmare Cafe
The Imagineering Story
One Special Victory
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Betty and Coretta
Between the World and Me
A Man Called Hawk
Family of Spies
Stat
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
In the Best Interest of the Child
Of Boys and Men
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Boesman and Lena
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Attorneys At Love
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Lazarus Child
The Flood
Doubletake
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
The Heroes of Desert Storm
Making "The Score"
Malika the Lion Queen
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
