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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 16, 1958
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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Angela Bassett
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Zero Day | President Evelyn Mitchell |
| 2025 | Number One on the Call Sheet | Self |
| 2024 | Queens | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | Doctor Odyssey | Athena Grant |
| 2023 | MPower | Self |
| 2023 | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Decoy (voice) |
| 2022 | Sherri | Self - Guest |
| 2021 | What If...? | Queen Ramonda (voice) |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | 9-1-1: Lone Star | Sergeant Athena Grant |
| 2019 | Tamron Hall | Self - Guest |
| 2019 | A Black Lady Sketch Show | Mo |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self |
| 2019 | The Imagineering Story | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Red Table Talk | Self |
| 2018 | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant |
| 2016 | Close to the Enemy | Eva |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2015 | Master of None | Catherine |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | Trailblazer Honors | Self |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman | Ana Spanakopita (voice) |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | The Arsenio Hall Show | Self |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots | Self |
| 2012 | RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | Self - Special Guest |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Desiree Dupree |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Ramona Royale |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Monet Tumissee |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2001 | Alias | Hayden Chase |
| 2001 | The Bernie Mac Show | Angela Bassett |
| 2001 | Critics Choice Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1998 | Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery | Herself |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self - Guest |
| 1994 | ER | Catherine Banfield |
| 1992 | Nightmare Cafe | Evelyn Wall |
| 1992 | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson |
| 1991 | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns |
| 1990 | The Flash | Linda Lake |
| 1990 | Family of Spies | Bev Andress |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Michelle Obama (voice) |
| 1989 | A Man Called Hawk | |
| 1989 | Snoops | Laura Hale |
| 1987 | thirtysomething | |
| 1987 | Tour of Duty | Lt. Camilla Patterson |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | |
| 1985 | 227 | |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show | Sara |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Herself - Narrator (voice) |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |