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:
- 90
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Gunpowder Milkshake
- Latest Project:
- Movie Black Panther II 2022-07-08
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Black Panther II | Ramonda | 2022-07-08 |
| Movie | Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | 2022 |
| Movie | Between the World and Me | Self | 2020-11-21 |
| Movie | Soul | Dorothea (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
| Series | The Imagineering Story | Narrator | 2019-11-12 |
| Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019-08-13 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | 2018-12-15 |
| Movie | Avengers: Infinity War | Ramonda | 2018-04-25 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erika Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | The Flood | Narrator | 2018-11-25 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Herself | 2017-08-26 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana | 2016-11-25 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony | Self | 2016-09-24 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Movie | BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration | Herself | 2016-11-15 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen Worthy | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda (voice) | 2015-01-26 |
| 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 | 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 | Jumping the Broom | Mrs. Watson | 2011-05-06 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Waller | 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 (voice) | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-10-21 |
| 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 | Time Bomb | Jill Greco | 2006-03-19 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-06-07 |
| 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 | 2003-07-25 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Boesman and Lena | Lena | 2000-11-03 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| 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 | Waiting to Exhale | Bernie Harris | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | 1995-10-26 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-05-04 |
| 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 | 1992-08-20 |
| Movie | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| Series | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 1992-11-15 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1991-10-29 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | 1991-01-21 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| 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 |