1958-08-16 ( 66 years old ) in 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
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025-05-21
Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024-09-25
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024-08-12
Butterfly in the Sky
2024-03-17
Damsel
2024-03-07
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
2024-03-02
Orion and the Dark
2024-02-01
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022-11-09
Good Night Oppy
2022-11-04
Wendell & Wild
2022-10-21
TINA
2021-08-20
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021-07-14
Malika the Lion Queen
2021-04-04
Soul
2020-12-25
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Attorneys At Love
2020-01-14
Otherhood
2019-08-13
The Apollo
2019-04-24
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
The Flood
2018-11-25
Bumblebee
2018-11-22
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018-07-13
Black Panther
2018-02-13
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017-08-26
The Snowy Day
2016-11-25
London Has Fallen
2016-03-02
Chi-Raq
2015-12-04
Survivor
2015-05-21
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
2015-01-26
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014-08-14
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014-06-22
Black Nativity
2013-11-27
Olympus Has Fallen
2013-03-20
Betty and Coretta
2013-02-02
This Means War
2012-02-14
Green Lantern
2011-06-14
Jumping the Broom
2011-05-06
Notorious
2009-01-16
Nothing But the Truth
2008-12-19
Of Boys and Men
2008-10-21
Meet the Browns
2008-03-21
Gospel Hill
2008-02-09
Meet the Robinsons
2007-03-23
Akeelah and the Bee
2006-04-28
Time Bomb
2006-03-19
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005-06-07
Mr. 3000
2004-06-15
The Lazarus Child
2004-05-13
Masked and Anonymous
2003-07-25
Sunshine State
2002-06-21
The Rosa Parks Story
2002-02-24
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
2001-12-01
The Score
2001-07-13
Boesman and Lena
2000-11-03
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
2000-10-03
Supernova
2000-01-14
Music of the Heart
1999-10-29
Our Friend, Martin
1999-01-12
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998-08-14
Contact
1997-07-11
Waiting to Exhale
1995-12-22
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995-10-26
Strange Days
1995-10-13
Panther
1995-05-03
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993-06-09
Passion Fish
1992-12-11
Malcolm X
1992-11-18
Innocent Blood
1992-09-25
Critters 4
1992-08-20
One Special Victory
1991-12-08
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
1991-10-29
The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991-10-11
City of Hope
1991-10-11
Boyz n the Hood
1991-07-12
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
1991-02-18
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
1991-01-21
Kindergarten Cop
1990-12-21
In the Best Interest of the Child
1990-05-20
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990-05-20
Challenger
1990-02-25
Liberty
1986-06-23
F/X
1986-02-07
Doubletake
1985-11-24
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