Angela Bassett
Acting
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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.
Filmography
Wildwood
2026
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Zero Day
2025
Doctor Odyssey
2024
Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
Hollywood Black
2024
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
Damsel
2024
Queens
2024
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
2023
MPower
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Good Night Oppy
2022
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022
Wendell & Wild
2022
Sherri
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
TINA
2021
What If...?
2021
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
Malika the Lion Queen
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Soul
2020
Between the World and Me
2020
9-1-1: Lone Star
2020
Attorneys At Love
2020
The Imagineering Story
2019
Tamron Hall
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Otherhood
2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
The Apollo
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
The Flood
2018
Bumblebee
2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
Red Table Talk
2018
Black Panther
2018
9-1-1
2018
Steve
2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
The Snowy Day
2016
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
2016
Close to the Enemy
2016
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
2016
London Has Fallen
2016
Chi-Raq
2015
Master of None
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Survivor
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Black Nativity
2013
The Arsenio Hall Show
2013
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
Betty and Coretta
2013
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
2012
Finding Your Roots
2012
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
2012
This Means War
2012
American Horror Story
2011
Green Lantern
2011
Jumping the Broom
2011
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Notorious
2009
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
Nothing But the Truth
2008
Of Boys and Men
2008
Meet the Browns
2008
Gospel Hill
2008
Meet the Robinsons
2007
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
Time Bomb
2006
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Mr. 3000
2004
The Lazarus Child
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Masked and Anonymous
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Sunshine State
2002
The Rosa Parks Story
2002
Making "The Score"
2001
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
2001
The Bernie Mac Show
2001
Alias
2001
The Score
2001
Critics Choice Awards
2001
Boesman and Lena
2000
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
2000
Supernova
2000
Music of the Heart
1999
Our Friend, Martin
1999
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
The View
1997
Contact
1997
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Strange Days
1995
Panther
1995
ER
1994
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
Passion Fish
1992
Malcolm X
1992
The Jacksons: An American Dream
1992
Innocent Blood
1992
Critters 4
1992
Nightmare Cafe
1992
One Special Victory
1991
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
1991
The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991
City of Hope
1991
Boyz n the Hood
1991
Stat
1991
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
1991
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
1991
Kindergarten Cop
1990
The Flash
1990
In the Best Interest of the Child
1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990
Challenger
1990
Family of Spies
1990
The Simpsons
1989
Snoops
1989
Alien Nation
1989
A Man Called Hawk
1989
thirtysomething
1987
Tour of Duty
1987
Liberty
1986
F/X
1986
Doubletake
1985
Spenser: For Hire
1985
227
1985
The Cosby Show
1984
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Oscars
1953
The Emmy Awards
1949
Golden Globe Awards
1944