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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 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
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
The Flash
Critics Choice Awards
MPower
Nightmare Cafe
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Number One on the Call Sheet
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
American Horror Story
Bumblebee
Avengers: Endgame
Kindergarten Cop
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ER
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Family of Spies
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Black Panther
Soul
Olympus Has Fallen
Meet the Robinsons
Contact
This Means War
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Masked and Anonymous
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Green Lantern
Wendell & Wild
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Notorious
Gunpowder Milkshake
The Apollo
White Bird in a Blizzard
Boyz n the Hood
Survivor
Time Bomb
The Score
Chi-Raq
London Has Fallen
Akeelah and the Bee
Damsel
Orion and the Dark
Supernova
Malcolm X
Zero Day
The Rosa Parks Story
The Imagineering Story
9-1-1
What's Love Got to Do with It
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
Otherhood
Meet the Browns
Good Night Oppy
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Production Credits
Heist 88
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Number One on the Call Sheet
9-1-1: Lone Star
American Horror Story
9-1-1
Otherhood
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