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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angela Bassett licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 16, 1958 In New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 79
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Academy Awards 1953-03-18
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018-07-13
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erica Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Avengers: Infinity War | Ramonda | 2018-04-25 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-16 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-09-25 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Herself | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Series | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau | 2011-10-05 |
| Movie | Llanterna verda | Dr. Amanda Walker | 2011-06-16 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | 2011-05-06 | |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Narrator | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Inventing the Robinsons: The Making of 'Meet the Robinsons' | Herself | 2007-10-23 |
| Movie | Descobrint els Robinsons | Mildred (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mr. 3000 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| Movie | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | 2003-08-08 |
| Movie | Sunshine State | Desiree Perry | 2002-06-21 |
| Movie | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
| Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| Movie | Boesman and Lena | Lena | 2000-11-03 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Miles' Mom (voice) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | Music of the Heart | Principal Janet Williams | 1999-10-29 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | 1998-08-14 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Series | Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Herself - Presenter | 1996-01-10 |
| Movie | Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-11-10 |
| Movie | Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | 1995-10-26 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1994-11-07 |
| Series | ER | Catherine Banfield | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Critters 4 | Fran | 1992-10-14 |
| Movie | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Series | Nightmare Cafe | Unknown | 1992-01-29 |
| Series | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 1992-11-15 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| Movie | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Series | The Flash | Unknown | 1990-09-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | A Man Called Hawk | Unknown | 1989-01-28 |
| Series | thirtysomething | Unknown | 1987-09-29 |
| Series | Tour of Duty | Unknown | 1987-09-24 |
| Movie | F/X | TV reporter | 1986-02-07 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | 227 | Unknown | 1985-09-14 |
| Series | The Cosby Show | Unknown | 1984-09-20 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |