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