Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist. She is best known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a corresponding Golden Globe Award. Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995), Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story (2002), Voletta Wallace in Notorious (2009) and Coretta Scott King in Betty & Coretta (2013). Bassett's performance as Parks was honored with her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA 
Date of birth
16th August 1958
Movies that starred Angela Bassett (27 in total)
Orion and the Dark [2024]
Sweet Dreams (voice)
Damsel [2024]
Lady Bayford
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [2022]
Ramonda
Gunpowder Milkshake [2021]
Anna May
Soul [2020]
Dorothea (voice)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout [2018]
Erika Sloane
Black Panther [2018]
Ramonda
London Has Fallen [2016]
Lynne Jacobs
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony [2016]
Self
Survivor [2015]
Maureen Cranepaul
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle [2015]
Dr. Kulinda (voice)
Olympus Has Fallen [2013]
Lynne Jacobs
This Means War [2012]
Collins
Green Lantern [2011]
Dr. Amanda Waller
Notorious [2009]
Voletta Wallace
Nothing But the Truth [2008]
Bonnie Benjamin
Meet the Robinsons [2007]
Mildred (voice)
Masked and Anonymous [2003]
Mistress
The Score [2001]
Diane
Supernova [2000]
Dr. Kaela Evers
Music of the Heart [1999]
Janet
Contact [1997]
Rachel Constantine
Strange Days [1995]
Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Waiting to Exhale [1995]
Bernadine
Critters 4 [1992]
Fran
Malcolm X [1992]
Betty Shabazz
Boyz n the Hood [1991]
Reva Devereaux
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