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Angela Bassett
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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.
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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.
Known For
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Oscars
The Late Late Show with James Corden
9-1-1: Lone Star
BoJack Horseman
The Simpsons
The Kelly Clarkson Show
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Alias
The Cosby Show
Doctor Odyssey
Master of None
The Bernie Mac Show
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Golden Globe Awards
Finding Your Roots
Marvel Studios Legends
What If...?
Tour of Duty
227
Critics Choice Awards
The Flash
Nightmare Cafe
Number One on the Call Sheet
A Black Lady Sketch Show
American Horror Story
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Avengers: Endgame
Kindergarten Cop
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ER
Family of Spies
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Bumblebee
Soul
Black Panther
Zero Day
Meet the Robinsons
Olympus Has Fallen
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
This Means War
Masked and Anonymous
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Contact
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Notorious
Wendell & Wild
Gunpowder Milkshake
Green Lantern
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Apollo
White Bird in a Blizzard
Boyz n the Hood
Survivor
Time Bomb
Chi-Raq
The Score
Orion and the Dark
London Has Fallen
MPower
Akeelah and the Bee
Damsel
Supernova
Malcolm X
Meet the Browns
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
The Rosa Parks Story
The Imagineering Story
What's Love Got to Do with It
9-1-1
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Good Night Oppy
Otherhood
Production Credits
9-1-1
9-1-1: Lone Star
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Otherhood
Number One on the Call Sheet
Heist 88
American Horror Story
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