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Angela Bassett
11 FOLLOWERS • 75 CREDITS • AUG 16, 1958 • 65
Biography
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.
Known For
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The Oscars
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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9-1-1: Lone Star
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BoJack Horseman
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The Simpsons
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Cosby Show
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Alias
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Master of None
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The Bernie Mac Show
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Golden Globe Awards
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Finding Your Roots
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Marvel Studios Legends
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What If...?
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Tour of Duty
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227
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
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The Flash
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MPower
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Nightmare Cafe
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A Black Lady Sketch Show
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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American Horror Story
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Bumblebee
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Avengers: Endgame
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Kindergarten Cop
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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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ER
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Family of Spies
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
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Black Panther
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Soul
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Meet the Robinsons
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Olympus Has Fallen
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20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Contact
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
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White Bird in a Blizzard
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Zero Day
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Notorious
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Wendell & Wild
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Green Lantern
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Gunpowder Milkshake
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Boyz n the Hood
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The Apollo
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This Means War
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The Score
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Survivor
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Chi-Raq
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Time Bomb
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Damsel
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Akeelah and the Bee
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Orion and the Dark
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London Has Fallen
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Malcolm X
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Supernova
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood
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Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
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Meet the Browns
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Otherhood
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What's Love Got to Do with It
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The Rosa Parks Story
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The Imagineering Story
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9-1-1
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Good Night Oppy
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