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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.
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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.
Known For
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Globe Awards
American Horror Story
The Oscars
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
9-1-1: Lone Star
BoJack Horseman
The Simpsons
The Kelly Clarkson Show
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Alias
The Cosby Show
The Emmy Awards
Doctor Odyssey
Master of None
The Bernie Mac Show
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Finding Your Roots
Marvel Studios Legends
What If...?
Tour of Duty
227
Critics Choice Awards
The Flash
Nightmare Cafe
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Number One on the Call Sheet
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Avengers: Endgame
Kindergarten Cop
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ER
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
Family of Spies
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Bumblebee
Soul
Zero Day
Black Panther
Meet the Robinsons
Olympus Has Fallen
This Means War
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Contact
Masked and Anonymous
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Damsel
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Notorious
Green Lantern
Wendell & Wild
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Gunpowder Milkshake
Boyz n the Hood
White Bird in a Blizzard
The Apollo
Chi-Raq
Survivor
Time Bomb
The Score
Akeelah and the Bee
London Has Fallen
Orion and the Dark
MPower
Supernova
Malcolm X
Good Night Oppy
Otherhood
Meet the Browns
What's Love Got to Do with It
The Rosa Parks Story
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
9-1-1
The Imagineering Story
Production Credits
Otherhood
9-1-1: Lone Star
9-1-1: Nashville
American Horror Story
Heist 88
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
9-1-1
Number One on the Call Sheet
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