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Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett

Birthday: 1958-08-16 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Soul

as    Dorothea (voice)

2021
Gunpowder Milkshake

as    Anna May

2021
Master of None Presents: Moments in Love

as    Catherine (voice)

2021
TINA

as    Self

2021
Malika the Lion Queen

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
Between the World and Me

as    Self

2019
Otherhood

as    Carol Walker

2019
The Imagineering Story

as    Narrator

2019
The Apollo

as    Self

2018
9-1-1

as    Athena Grant

2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

as    Erika Sloane

2018
The Flood

as    Narrator

2016
Close to the Enemy

as    Eva

2016
London Has Fallen

as    Lynne Jacobs

2015
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

as    Dr. Kulinda (voice)

2015
Survivor

as    Maureen Cranepaul

2015
Chi-Raq

as    Miss Helen Worthy

2014
White Bird in a Blizzard

as    Dr. Thaler

2013
Black Nativity

as    Aretha Cobbs

2013
Olympus Has Fallen

as    Lynne Jacobs

2012
This Means War

as    Collins

2011
Green Lantern

as    Dr. Amanda Waller

2011
Jumping the Broom

as    Mrs. Watson

2009
2009
Notorious

as    Voletta Wallace

2008
Nothing But the Truth

as    Bonnie Benjamin

2008
Meet the Browns

as    Brenda Brown