Angela Bassett
ActingAlso Known As
Άντζελα Μπάσετ, アンジェラ・バセット, Angela Evelyn Bassett, 安琪拉·貝瑟, 安吉拉·巴塞特
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.
Movies
(96 total)
Avengers: Endgame
as Ramonda
Black Panther
as Ramonda
Soul
as Dorothea (voice)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as Erika Sloane
Green Lantern
as Dr. Amanda Waller
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Ramonda
Olympus Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
Bumblebee
as Shatter (voice)
London Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
Contact
as Rachel Constantine
This Means War
as Collins
Meet the Robinsons
as Mildred (voice)
Kindergarten Cop
as Stewardess
Damsel
as Lady Bayford
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Erika Sloane
Boyz n the Hood
as Reva Styles
Malcolm X
as Betty Shabazz
The Score
as Diane
Strange Days
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
TV Shows
(60 total)
The Simpsons
as Michelle Obama (voice)
American Horror Story
as Desiree Dupree
American Horror Story
as Ramona Royale
American Horror Story
as Monet Tumissee
American Horror Story
as Marie Laveau
What If...?
as Queen Ramonda (voice)
BoJack Horseman
as Ana Spanakopita (voice)
9-1-1
as Athena Grant
9-1-1: Lone Star
as Sergeant Athena Grant
ER
as Catherine Banfield
Alias
as Hayden Chase
Marvel Studios Legends
as Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
Master of None
as Catherine
The Flash
as Linda Lake
The Cosby Show
as Sara
Zero Day
as President Evelyn Mitchell
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Tour of Duty
as Lt. Camilla Patterson
