Born
16 August 1958 (67)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Angela Evelyn Bassett
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 w...
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.
Wildwood
2026
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
Damsel
2024
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Good Night Oppy
2022
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022
Wendell & Wild
2022
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
TINA
2021
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
Malika the Lion Queen
2021
Soul
2020
Between the World and Me
2020
Attorneys At Love
2020
Otherhood
2019
The Apollo
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
The Flood
2018
Bumblebee
2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
Black Panther
2018
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
The Snowy Day
2016
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
2016
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
2016
London Has Fallen
2016
Chi-Raq
2015
Survivor
2015
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
2015
Whitney
2015
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014