Acting
Angela Bassett
EN, FR cinema · 98 credits
Born
16 August 1958 (age 68)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Angela Evelyn Bassett
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
Filmography
Wildwood
as The General (voice)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Erika Sloane
Damsel
as Lady Bayford
Orion and the Dark
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self (archive footage)
Heist 88
Executive Producer
Wendell & Wild
as Sister Helley (voice)
Good Night Oppy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gunpowder Milkshake
as Anna May
TINA
as Self
Malika the Lion Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Attorneys At Love
as Narrator
Soul
as Dorothea (voice)
Otherhood
as Carol Walker, Executive Producer
The Apollo
as Self
Avengers: Endgame
as Ramonda
Black Panther
as Ramonda
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as Erika Sloane
Bumblebee
as Shatter (voice)
The Flood
as Self - Narrator (voice)
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as Self
London Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
The Snowy Day
as Nana (voice)
Survivor
as Maureen Cranepaul
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
Chi-Raq
as Miss Helen Worthy
Whitney
Director
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Dr. Thaler
Olympus Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
Betty and Coretta
as Coretta Scott King
Black Nativity
as Aretha Cobbs
This Means War
as Collins
Green Lantern
as Dr. Amanda Waller
Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Watson
Notorious
as Voletta Wallace
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Narrator (voice)
Gospel Hill
as Sarah Malcolm
Nothing but the Truth
as Bonnie Benjamin
Meet the Browns
as Brenda Brown
Of Boys and Men
as Rieta Cole
Meet the Robinsons
as Mildred (voice)
Akeelah and the Bee
as Tanya Anderson
Time Bomb
as Jill Greco
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
The Lazarus Child
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
Mr. 3000
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
Masked and Anonymous
as Mistress
The Rosa Parks Story
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Sunshine State
as Desiree Perry
Our America
Executive Producer
The Score
as Diane
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
as Ruby Delacroix, Producer
Making "The Score"
as Herself
Supernova
as Kaela Evers
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
as Groove (voice)
Boesman and Lena
as Lena
Music of the Heart
as Janet
Our Friend, Martin
as Miles' Mom (voice)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Stella Payne
Contact
as Rachel Constantine
Strange Days
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Waiting to Exhale
as Bernadine
Vampire in Brooklyn
as Detective Rita Veder
Panther
as Dr. Betty Shabazz
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
Malcolm X
as Betty Shabazz
Critters 4
as Fran
Innocent Blood
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
Passion Fish
as Rhonda / Dawn
Boyz n the Hood
as Reva Styles
The Heroes of Desert Storm
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
City of Hope
as Reesha
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
as Carla Peters
Kindergarten Cop
as Stewardess
Challenger
as Cheryl McNair
Liberty
as Linda Thornton
F/X
as TV reporter
Doubletake
as Prostitute at Headquarters