Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett

Birthday: 1958-08-16

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: 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, آنجلا باست

imdb_id: nm0000291

Biography:

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett 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. She had success starring in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Music of the Heart (1999). In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama Notorious (2009) and the action films Green Lantern (2011), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), and London Has Fallen (2016). She 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 another Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, Bassett 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 an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story earned her nominations for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the Fox drama series 9-1-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

Score: 9.0

Inside the Dream: Mugler

Score: 8.5

Avengers: Endgame

Score: 8.2

Soul

Score: 8.1

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

Score: 8.1

Butterfly in the Sky

Score: 8.0

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

Score: 8.0

Between the World and Me

Score: 7.9

TINA

Score: 7.7

Of Boys and Men

Score: 7.7

Boyz n the Hood

Score: 7.6

Good Night Oppy

Score: 7.6

Malcolm X

Score: 7.5

Contact

Score: 7.4

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Score: 7.4

Our Friend, Martin

Score: 7.4

Black Panther

Score: 7.4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Score: 7.3

The Rosa Parks Story

Score: 7.2

Betty and Coretta

Score: 7.2

What's Love Got to Do with It

Score: 7.1

Akeelah and the Bee

Score: 7.1

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Score: 7.1

Damsel

Score: 7.0

Strange Days

Score: 7.0

The Snowy Day

Score: 7.0

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

Score: 7.0

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Score: 7.0

Nothing But the Truth

Score: 7.0

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

Score: 6.9

Notorious

Score: 6.9

Meet the Robinsons

Score: 6.9

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Score: 6.8

Passion Fish

Score: 6.8

Bumblebee

Score: 6.7

The Score

Score: 6.7

City of Hope

Score: 6.7

Meet the Browns

Score: 6.7

Music of the Heart

Score: 6.7

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Score: 6.7

Wendell & Wild

Score: 6.7

Orion and the Dark

Score: 6.6

F/X

Score: 6.6

The Apollo

Score: 6.5

Olympus Has Fallen

Score: 6.4

Sunshine State

Score: 6.4

Gunpowder Milkshake

Score: 6.3

Boesman and Lena

Score: 6.3

Panther

Score: 6.3

Waiting to Exhale

Score: 6.3

London Has Fallen

Score: 6.2

White Bird in a Blizzard

Score: 6.2

Otherhood

Score: 6.2

Challenger

Score: 6.2

This Means War

Score: 6.2

Innocent Blood

Score: 6.1

Kindergarten Cop

Score: 6.1

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

Score: 6.1

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

Score: 6.0

Jumping the Broom

Score: 5.9

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Score: 5.9

Chi-Raq

Score: 5.8

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Score: 5.8

The Flood

Score: 5.7

Survivor

Score: 5.7

The Lazarus Child

Score: 5.6

National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony

Score: 5.5

Time Bomb

Score: 5.5

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Score: 5.5

Mr. 3000

Score: 5.3

Doubletake

Score: 5.2

Green Lantern

Score: 5.2

Masked and Anonymous

Score: 5.1

Vampire in Brooklyn

Score: 5.1

Critters 4

Score: 5.0

Malika the Lion Queen

Score: 5.0

Black Nativity

Score: 5.0

Supernova

Score: 4.9

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

Score: 4.9

Gospel Hill

Score: 4.8

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Score: 4.5

Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

Score: 3.5

The Heroes of Desert Storm

Score: 2.5

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Score: 1.5

In the Best Interest of the Child

Score: 1.5

August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

Score: 1.0

Making "The Score"

Score: 0.0

OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett

Score: 0.0

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Score: 0.0

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

Score: 0.0

Attorneys At Love

Score: 0.0

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

Score: 0.0

Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

Score: 0.0

Wildwood

Score: 0.0

Liberty

Score: 0.0

One Special Victory

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

Score: 9.2

Number One on the Call Sheet

Score: 9.0

BoJack Horseman

Score: 8.5

Reading Rainbow

Score: 8.4

9-1-1

Score: 8.2

The Imagineering Story

Score: 8.2

American Horror Story

Score: 8.1

American Horror Story

Score: 8.1

American Horror Story

Score: 8.1

American Horror Story

Score: 8.1

9-1-1: Lone Star

Score: 8.1

What If...?

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Tour of Duty

Score: 8.0

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.9

Queens

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Trailblazer Honors

Score: 7.5

The Flash

Score: 7.4

Master of None

Score: 7.4

Marvel Studios Legends

Score: 7.4

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

Score: 7.3

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Score: 7.2

Critics Choice Awards

Score: 7.2

MPower

Score: 7.1

The Cosby Show

Score: 7.0

Zero Day

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

227

Score: 6.8

Alias

Score: 6.8

The Jacksons: An American Dream

Score: 6.7

Spenser: For Hire

Score: 6.7

Doctor Odyssey

Score: 6.6

A Man Called Hawk

Score: 6.6

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.4

Red Table Talk

Score: 6.4

The Bernie Mac Show

Score: 6.4

Finding Your Roots

Score: 6.2

thirtysomething

Score: 6.1

Nightmare Cafe

Score: 6.0

Family of Spies

Score: 5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.7

The Arsenio Hall Show

Score: 5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 5.7

Close to the Enemy

Score: 5.3

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Tamron Hall

Score: 5.1

Snoops

Score: 5.0

Stat

Score: 5.0

The View

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.5

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.4

Sherri

Score: 4.2