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Angela Bassett
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 Pri…
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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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2026
Wildwood
Movie The General (voice)
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2025
9-1-1: Nashville
TV show Executive Producer
- 2025
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2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Movie Erika Sloane
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2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
TV show Self
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2025
Zero Day
TV show President Evelyn Mitchell
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2024
Doctor Odyssey
TV show Athena Grant
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2024
Inside the Dream: Mugler
Movie Self
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2024
Disney Legends Award Ceremony
TV show Self - Honoree
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Butterfly in the Sky
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Damsel
Movie Lady Bayford
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2024
Queens
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2024
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
Movie Self
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2024
Orion and the Dark
Movie Sweet Dreams (voice)
- 2023
More credits
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2023
Heist 88
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
MPower
TV show Self
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2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV show Decoy (voice)
- 2023
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Ramonda
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2022
Good Night Oppy
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022
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2022
Wendell & Wild
Movie Sister Helley (voice)
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
- 2021
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2021
TINA
Movie Self
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2021
What If...?
TV show Queen Ramonda (voice)
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2021
Gunpowder Milkshake
Movie Anna May
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2021
Malika the Lion Queen
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
Marvel Studios Legends
TV show Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2020
Soul
Movie Dorothea (voice)
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2020
Between the World and Me
Movie Self
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2020
9-1-1: Lone Star
TV show Sergeant Athena Grant
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2020
Attorneys At Love
Movie Narrator
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2019
The Imagineering Story
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Otherhood
Movie Carol Walker
