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Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett

Acting August 16, 1958 New York City, New York, USA
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.

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Movies

Avengers: Endgame
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Ramonda
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Black Panther
7.4
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Ramonda
Black Panther
2018
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
7.0
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Ramonda
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Damsel
7.0
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Lady Bayford
Damsel
2024
Olympus Has Fallen
6.4
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Lynne Jacobs
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
London Has Fallen
6.2
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Lynne Jacobs
London Has Fallen
2016
Green Lantern
5.2
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Dr. Amanda Waller
Green Lantern
2011
Orion and the Dark
6.5
Sweet Dreams (voice)
Orion and the Dark
2024
Kindergarten Cop
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Stewardess
Kindergarten Cop
1990
Survivor
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Maureen Cranepaul
Survivor
2015
Gunpowder Milkshake
6.3
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Anna May
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
The Flood
6.7
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Self - Narrator (voice)
The Flood
2018

TV Shows

The Flash
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Linda Lake
The Flash
1990

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