Angela Evelyn Bassett\u00a0(born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received\u00a0various accolades, including a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0and two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two\u00a0Academy Awards. In 2023,\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine named her one of the\u00a0100 most influential people in the world, and she received an\u00a0Academy Honorary Award.<\/p>\n
Bassett had her\u00a0breakthrough\u00a0portraying singer\u00a0Tina Turner\u00a0in the biopic\u00a0What’s Love Got to Do with It\u00a0(1993), which won her a\u00a0Golden Globe Award\u00a0and a nomination for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actress. She had success starring in\u00a0Boyz n the Hood\u00a0(1991),\u00a0Malcolm X\u00a0(1992),\u00a0Waiting to Exhale\u00a0(1995),\u00a0Vampire in Brooklyn (1995),\u00a0How Stella Got Her Groove Back\u00a0(1998), and\u00a0Music of the Heart\u00a0(1999). In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama\u00a0Notorious\u00a0(2009) and the action films\u00a0Green Lantern\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Olympus Has Fallen(2013), and\u00a0London Has Fallen\u00a0(2016). She also played\u00a0Queen Ramonda\u00a0in the\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe\u00a0films\u00a0Black Panther\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Avengers: Endgame\u00a0(2019), and\u00a0Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u00a0(2022). For the latter, she won another Golden Globe and was nominated for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n
On television, Bassett has starred as\u00a0Katherine Jackson\u00a0in the miniseries\u00a0The Jacksons: An American Dream\u00a0(1992). Her portrayal of\u00a0Rosa Parks\u00a0in the television film\u00a0The Rosa Parks Story\u00a0(2002) gained her a nomination for an\u00a0Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the\u00a0FX\u00a0horror anthology series\u00a0American Horror Story\u00a0earned her nominations for an\u00a0Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress\u00a0in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an\u00a0LAPD\u00a0patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the\u00a0Fox\u00a0drama series\u00a09-1-1.<\/p>\n
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Angela Evelyn Bassett\u00a0(born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received\u00a0various accolades, including a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0and two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two\u00a0Academy Awards. In 2023,\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine named her one of the\u00a0100 most influential people in the world, and she received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26773","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n