Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett
Biography
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. She 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. This led to starring roles as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992), as the mother of The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009), and as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011). Her other notable film roles were in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). She has 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 a Golden Globe Award and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she 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 a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, she began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
Known For
Actor
as (voice)
as President Mitchell
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Lady Bayford
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Ramonda
as Narrator (voice)
as Sister Helley (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Anna May
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Queen Ramonda (voice)
as Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Dorothea (voice)
as Self
as Narrator
as Sergeant Athena Grant
as Carol Walker
as Self
as Ramonda
as Narrator
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Mo
as Shatter (voice)
as Narrator
as Erika Sloane
as Ramonda
as Self
as Athena Grant
as Nana
as Lynne Jacobs
as Eva
as Miss Helen Worthy
as Maureen Cranepaul
as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
as Catherine
as Self - Guest
as Dr. Thaler
as Self
as Self
as Ana Spanakopita (voice)
as Self
as Aretha Cobbs
as Lynne Jacobs
as Coretta Scott King
as Self
as Collins
as Self - Special Guest
as Self
as Dr. Amanda Waller
as Mrs. Watson
as Marie Laveau
as Desiree Dupree
as Ramona Royale
as Monet Tumissee / Lee Harris
as Self (voice)
as Voletta Wallace
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Bonnie Benjamin
as Rieta Cole
as Brenda Brown
as Sarah Malcolm
as Mildred (voice)
as Tanya Anderson
as Jill Greco
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
as Mistress
as Self
as Desiree Perry
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
as Ruby Delacroix
as Diane
as Angela Bassett
as Hayden Chase
as Lena
as Groove (voice)
as Dr. Kaela Evers
as Janet
as Miles' Mom (voice)
as Stella Payne
as Rachel Constantine
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Herself - Presenter
as Bernadine
as Detective Rita Veder
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
as Dr. Betty Shabazz
as Catherine Banfield
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
as Rhonda / Dawn
as Betty Shabazz
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
as Fran
as Katherine Jackson
as Evelyn Wall
as Lois
as Willie
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
as Reesha
as Reva Devereaux
as Allison
as Dr. Willie Burns
as Stewardess
as Carla Peters
as Cheryl McNair
as Linda Lake
as Bev Andress
as Michelle Obama (voice)
as Lt. Camilla Patterson
as Linda Thornton
as TV reporter
as Prostitute at Headquarters
as Sara
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Presenter
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
Director
Creator
as Creator