Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 16, 1958
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
160 titles
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
Filmography
Wildwood
General (voice)
9-1-1: Nashville
Executive Producer
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
Self
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Erika Sloane
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
Zero Day
President Evelyn Mitchell
Doctor Odyssey
Athena Grant
Inside the Dream: Mugler
Self
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Self
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Butterfly in the Sky
Self (archive footage)
Damsel
Lady Bayford
Queens
Narrator (voice)
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
Self
Orion and the Dark
Sweet Dreams (voice)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Host
Heist 88
Executive Producer
MPower
Self
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Decoy (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Self
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ramonda
Good Night Oppy
Self - Narrator (voice)
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Self
Wendell & Wild
Sister Helley (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
Sherri
Self - Guest
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
TINA
Self
What If...?
Queen Ramonda (voice)
Gunpowder Milkshake
Anna May
Malika the Lion Queen
Self - Narrator (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
Soul
Dorothea (voice)
Between the World and Me
Self
9-1-1: Lone Star
Sergeant Athena Grant
Attorneys At Love
Narrator
The Imagineering Story
Narrator (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Otherhood
Carol Walker
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Mo
Avengers: Endgame
Ramonda
The Apollo
Self
The Flood
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bumblebee
Shatter (voice)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Erika Sloane
Red Table Talk
Self
Black Panther
Ramonda
9-1-1
Athena Grant
Steve
Self