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:
- 71
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Academy Awards 1953-03-18
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018-07-27
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | 2018-07-27 | |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Avengers: Infinity War | Ramonda | 2018-04-25 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| 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 | |
| Series | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau | 2011-10-05 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Walker | 2011-06-16 |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Narrator | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Meet the Robinsons | Mildred (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Inventing the Robinsons: The Making of 'Meet the Robinsons' | Herself | 2007-10-23 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Mr. 3000 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | 2003-08-08 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| 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 | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | 1995-10-26 |
| Movie | Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-11-10 |
| 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 | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Movie | Critters 4 | Fran | 1992-08-20 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Series | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 1990-02-04 |
| 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 |