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Angela Bassett
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Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. She 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. This led to starring roles as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992), as the mother of The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009), and as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011). Her other notable film roles were in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). She has 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 a Golden Globe Award and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she 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 a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, she began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
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Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. She 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. This led to starring roles as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992), as the mother of The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009), and as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011). Her other notable film roles were in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). She has 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 a Golden Globe Award and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she 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 a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, she began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
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The Oscars
The Late Late Show with James Corden
9-1-1: Lone Star
BoJack Horseman
The Simpsons
The Kelly Clarkson Show
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Alias
The Cosby Show
Master of None
The Bernie Mac Show
Golden Globe Awards
Finding Your Roots
Marvel Studios Legends
What If...?
Tour of Duty
227
The Flash
Critics Choice Awards
Nightmare Cafe
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
American Horror Story
Avengers: Endgame
Bumblebee
Kindergarten Cop
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ER
Family of Spies
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Black Panther
Soul
Meet the Robinsons
Olympus Has Fallen
Contact
This Means War
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Masked and Anonymous
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Zero Day
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
White Bird in a Blizzard
Notorious
Gunpowder Milkshake
Wendell & Wild
Green Lantern
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Boyz n the Hood
The Apollo
Chi-Raq
The Score
Survivor
Time Bomb
Akeelah and the Bee
MPower
London Has Fallen
Orion and the Dark
Damsel
Malcolm X
Supernova
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
The Rosa Parks Story
Good Night Oppy
9-1-1
The Imagineering Story
Otherhood
What's Love Got to Do with It
Meet the Browns
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Production Credits
American Horror Story
9-1-1: Lone Star
Otherhood
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Heist 88
9-1-1
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