Angela Bassett
Age: N/A | From: New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Άντζελα Μπάσετ , アンジェラ・バセット , Angela Evelyn Bassett , 安琪拉·貝瑟 , 安吉拉·巴塞特
Gender: Female
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 73
TV Involvements: 33
Most Famous Work
Biography
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. She 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. This led to starring roles as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992), as the mother of The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009), and as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011). Her other notable film roles were in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). She has 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 a Golden Globe Award and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she 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 a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, she began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
Most Famous Work
9-1-1
(2018) Athena Grant
American Horror Story
(2011) Marie Laveau
9-1-1: Lone Star
(2020) Sergeant Athena Grant
Finding Your Roots
(2012) Self
What If...?
(2021) Queen Ramonda (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
(2021) Ramonda (archive footage)
ER
(1994) Catherine Banfield
Tour of Duty
(1987) Lt. Camilla PattersonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lady Bayford | |
| Dreams (voice) | ||
| 2023 | Host | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2022 | Ramonda | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Sister Helley (voice) | ||
| 2021 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Queen Ramonda (voice) | ||
| Anna May | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| Ramonda (archive footage) | ||
| 2020 | Dorothea (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Sergeant Athena Grant | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2019 | Narrator | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| N/A | ||
| Carol Walker | ||
| Mo | ||
| Self | ||
| Ramonda | ||
| 2018 | Shatter (voice) | |
| Narrator | ||
| Erika Sloane | ||
| Self | ||
| Ramonda | ||
| Athena Grant | ||
| 2017 | Self | |
| 2016 | Nana | |
| Self | ||
| Eva | ||
| Self | ||
| Lynne Jacobs | ||
| 2015 | Miss Helen Worthy | |
| Catherine | ||
| Self | ||
| Maureen Cranepaul | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Dr. Kulinda (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Ana Spanakopita (voice) | ||
| Dr. Thaler | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2013 | Aretha Cobbs | |
| Lynne Jacobs | ||
| Coretta Scott King | ||
| 2012 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Collins | ||
| 2011 | Desiree Dupree | |
| Ramona Royale | ||
| Monet Tumissee / Lee Harris | ||
| Marie Laveau | ||
| Dr. Amanda Waller | ||
| Mrs. Watson | ||
| 2010 | Self (voice) | |
| 2009 | Voletta Wallace | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2008 | Bonnie Benjamin | |
| Rieta Cole | ||
| Brenda Brown | ||
| Sarah Malcolm | ||
| 2007 | Mildred (voice) | |
| 2006 | Tanya Anderson | |
| Jill Greco | ||
| 2005 | Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited) | |
| 2004 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | |
| Dr. Elizabeth Chase | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| Mistress | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Desiree Perry | |
| Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | ||
| 2001 | Ruby Delacroix | |
| N/A | ||
| Hayden Chase | ||
| Diane | ||
| 2000 | Lena | |
| Groove (voice) | ||
| Dr. Kaela Evers | ||
| 1999 | Janet | |
| Miles' Mom (voice) | ||
| 1998 | Herself | |
| Stella Payne | ||
| 1997 | Self | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Rachel Constantine | ||
| 1996 | Herself - Presenter | |
| 1995 | Bernadine | |
| Detective Rita Veder | ||
| Lornette 'Mace' Mason | ||
| Dr. Betty Shabazz | ||
| 1994 | Catherine Banfield | |
| 1993 | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | |
| 1992 | Rhonda / Dawn | |
| Betty Shabazz | ||
| Katherine Jackson | ||
| U.S. Attorney Sinclair | ||
| Fran | ||
| Evelyn Wall | ||
| 1991 | Lois | |
| Willie | ||
| Lt. Phoebe Jeter | ||
| Reesha | ||
| Reva Devereaux | ||
| Dr. Willie Burns | ||
| Allison | ||
| Pat | ||
| 1990 | Stewardess | |
| Linda Lake | ||
| Carla Peters | ||
| Lori | ||
| Janet Fields | ||
| Cheryl McNair | ||
| Bev Andress | ||
| 1989 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1987 | N/A | |
| Lt. Camilla Patterson | ||
| 1986 | Linda Thornton | |
| TV reporter | ||
| 1985 | Prostitute at Headquarters | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Herself - Narrator (voice) | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1944 | Self - Presenter | |
| (voice) | ||
| President Mitchell | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Executive Producer | |
| 2020 | Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Executive Producer | |
| 2002 | Executive Producer | |
| 2001 | Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 2011 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
