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 movie Otherhood
- Latest Project:
- Movie Black Panther 2 2019
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019 |
| Movie | Black Panther 2 | Ramonda | 2019 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Avengers: Infinity War | Ramonda | 2018-04-25 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erica Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | 2017-08-26 | |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-08-14 |
| 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 | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Herself | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | 2011-05-06 | |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Walker | 2011-06-16 |
| Series | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau | 2011-10-05 |
| 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 | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Inventing the Robinsons: The Making of 'Meet the Robinsons' | Herself | 2007-10-23 |
| Movie | Meet the 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 | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | Sunshine State | Desiree Perry | 2002-06-21 |
| Movie | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
| Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Boesman and Lena | Lena | 2000-11-03 |
| Movie | Music of the Heart | Principal Janet Williams | 1999-10-29 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Miles' Mom (voice) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | 1998-08-14 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| 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 |
| Series | ER | Catherine Banfield | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1994-11-07 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Critters 4 | Fran | 1992-08-20 |
| Movie | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| Series | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 1992-11-15 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | 1991-01-21 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 1990-02-04 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Series | Tour of Duty | Unknown | 1987-09-24 |
| Series | thirtysomething | Unknown | 1987-09-29 |
| 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 |