Angela Bassett

Acting · 3.6 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

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

20227.0

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

20257.2

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

20056.7

Soul

20208.1

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

20187.5

Contact

19977.4

Green Lantern

20115.2

Bumblebee

20186.7

Meet the Robinsons

20076.9

Damsel

20247.0

Boyz n the Hood

19917.6

Olympus Has Fallen

20136.4

London Has Fallen

20166.2

Survivor

20155.7

The Score

20016.7

Strange Days

19957.0

Malcolm X

19927.6

Orion and the Dark

20246.5

Wildwood

2026

Gunpowder Milkshake

20216.3

This Means War

20126.2

Kindergarten Cop

19906.1

Wendell & Wild

20226.6

What's Love Got to Do with It

19937.1

Notorious

20097.0

Waiting to Exhale

19956.3

Innocent Blood

19926.2

Akeelah and the Bee

20067.0

TINA

20217.7

F/X

19866.6

Supernova

20005.0

Nothing but the Truth

20086.9

Jumping the Broom

20115.9

Mr. 3000

20045.3

Vampire in Brooklyn

19955.1

Critters 4

19925.0

Panther

19956.3

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

19985.8

Passion Fish

19927.0

White Bird in a Blizzard

20146.2

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

20236.3

Music of the Heart

19996.7

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

20156.8

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

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

20128.1

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Meet the Browns

20086.7

Otherhood

20196.1

Chi-Raq

20155.7

Our Friend, Martin

19997.1

Good Night Oppy

20227.6

The Flood

20186.9

City of Hope

19916.6

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

20015.8

Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

19914.6

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

20005.9

2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

20246.0

Between the World and Me

20207.9

Inside the Dream: Mugler

20249.0

The Apollo

20196.4

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20214.0

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

19917.0

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

19907.5

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

20035.2

The Rosa Parks Story

20027.1

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

19916.7

Sunshine State

20026.4

Black Nativity

20135.2

The Heroes of Desert Storm

19914.0

Attorneys At Love

2020

Gospel Hill

20084.7

In the Best Interest of the Child

19902.7

Malika the Lion Queen

20215.0

Time Bomb

20065.4

The Lazarus Child

20045.6

Challenger

19906.5

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

20098.0

Making "The Score"

2001

August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

20171.0

Liberty

19866.0

Doubletake

19855.0

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

20169.0

The Snowy Day

20167.0

One Special Victory

19918.0

National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony

20165.5

Boesman and Lena

20006.0

Butterfly in the Sky

20248.3

Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

2025

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

20224.3

Betty and Coretta

20137.2

Of Boys and Men

20087.7

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

20234.5

OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett

2024

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014