Angela Bassett

Acting · 3.7 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: August 16, 1958
From: New York City, New York, USA

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.

Works

96 films

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Black Panther

20187.4

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

20257.2

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

20227.0

Soul

20208.1

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

20056.7

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

20187.5

Contact

19977.4

Green Lantern

20115.2

Meet the Robinsons

20076.9

Olympus Has Fallen

20136.4

Bumblebee

20186.7

Damsel

20247.0

Boyz n the Hood

19917.6

London Has Fallen

20166.2

Survivor

20155.7

The Score

20016.7

Wildwood

2026

This Means War

20126.2

Strange Days

19957.0

Malcolm X

19927.6

Gunpowder Milkshake

20216.3

Orion and the Dark

20246.5

Wendell & Wild

20226.6

Kindergarten Cop

19906.1

Notorious

20097.0

Waiting to Exhale

19956.3

Innocent Blood

19926.2

TINA

20217.7

What's Love Got to Do with It

19937.1

Akeelah and the Bee

20067.0

Jumping the Broom

20115.9

Supernova

20005.0

Passion Fish

19927.0

F/X

19866.6

White Bird in a Blizzard

20146.2

Critters 4

19925.0

Vampire in Brooklyn

19955.1

Nothing but the Truth

20086.9

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

20236.3

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

19985.8

Panther

19956.3

Music of the Heart

19996.7

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

20156.8

Mr. 3000

20045.3

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Meet the Browns

20086.7

Otherhood

20196.1

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

20128.1

Chi-Raq

20155.7

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

20015.8

Our Friend, Martin

19997.1

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20214.0

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

19916.7

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

20005.9

City of Hope

19916.6

Good Night Oppy

20227.6

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

19917.0

Inside the Dream: Mugler

20249.0

The Flood

20186.9

Black Nativity

20135.2

Between the World and Me

20207.9

The Apollo

20196.4

Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

19914.6

2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

20246.0

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

19907.5

Gospel Hill

20084.7

August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

20171.0

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

20035.2

Sunshine State

20026.4

The Heroes of Desert Storm

19914.0

Time Bomb

20065.4

Liberty

19866.0

Attorneys At Love

2020

The Rosa Parks Story

20027.1

In the Best Interest of the Child

19902.7

The Lazarus Child

20045.6

Malika the Lion Queen

20215.0

Betty and Coretta

20137.2

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

20098.0

Making "The Score"

2001

Challenger

19906.5

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

20224.3

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

20169.0

Boesman and Lena

20006.0

Butterfly in the Sky

20248.3

One Special Victory

19918.0

The Snowy Day

20167.0

Doubletake

19855.0

Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

2025

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony

20165.5

Of Boys and Men

20087.7

OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett

2024

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

20234.5