Angela Bassett
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-08-16 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting
Wildwood
as (voice)
Making "The Score"
as Herself
(2025)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Erika Sloane
(2024)
Damsel
as Lady Bayford
(2024)
Orion and the Dark
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
(2024)
(2024)
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Inside the Dream: Mugler
as Self
(2024)
(2023)
(2023)
(2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Ramonda
(2022)
Wendell & Wild
as Sister Helley (voice)
(2022)
Good Night Oppy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2022)
(2021)
TINA
as Self
(2021)
Gunpowder Milkshake
as Anna May
(2021)
(2021)
Malika the Lion Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Soul
as Dorothea (voice)
(2020)
Between the World and Me
as Self
(2020)
Attorneys At Love
as Narrator
(2019)
Avengers: Endgame
as Ramonda
(2019)
Otherhood
as Carol Walker
(2019)
The Apollo
as Self
(2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as Erika Sloane
(2018)
Black Panther
as Ramonda
(2018)
Bumblebee
as Shatter (voice)
(2018)
The Flood
as Narrator
(2017)
(2016)
London Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
(2016)
(2016)
The Snowy Day
as Nana (voice)
(2016)
(2015)
Survivor
as Maureen Cranepaul
(2015)
Chi-Raq
as Miss Helen Worthy
(2015)
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
(2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Dr. Thaler
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
Olympus Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
(2013)
Black Nativity
as Aretha Cobbs
(2013)
Betty and Coretta
as Coretta Scott King
(2012)
This Means War
as Collins
(2012)
(2011)
Green Lantern
as Dr. Amanda Waller
(2011)
Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Watson
(2010)
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
as Self (voice)
(2009)
Notorious
as Voletta Wallace
(2009)
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Nothing But the Truth
as Bonnie Benjamin
(2008)
Meet the Browns
as Brenda Brown
(2008)
Gospel Hill
as Sarah Malcolm
(2008)
Of Boys and Men
as Rieta Cole
(2007)
Meet the Robinsons
as Mildred (voice)
(2006)
Akeelah and the Bee
as Tanya Anderson
(2006)
Time Bomb
as Jill Greco
(2005)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
(2004)
Mr. 3000
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
(2004)
The Lazarus Child
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
(2003)
Masked and Anonymous
as Mistress
(2003)
(2002)
Sunshine State
as Desiree Perry
(2002)
The Rosa Parks Story
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(2001)
The Score
as Diane
(2001)
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
as Ruby Delacroix
(2000)
Supernova
as Dr. Kaela Evers
(2000)
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
as Groove (voice)
(2000)
Boesman and Lena
as Lena
(1999)
Music of the Heart
as Janet
(1999)
Our Friend, Martin
as Miles' Mom (voice)
(1998)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Stella Payne
(1997)
Contact
as Rachel Constantine
(1995)
Strange Days
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
(1995)
Waiting to Exhale
as Bernadine
(1995)
Vampire in Brooklyn
as Detective Rita Veder
(1995)
Panther
as Dr. Betty Shabazz
(1993)
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
(1992)
Malcolm X
as Betty Shabazz
(1992)
Innocent Blood
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
(1992)
Critters 4
as Fran
(1992)
Passion Fish
as Rhonda / Dawn
(1991)
Boyz n the Hood
as Reva Styles
(1991)
City of Hope
as Reesha
(1991)
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
as Willie
(1991)
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
as Allison
(1991)
(1991)
One Special Victory
as Lois
(1991)
The Heroes of Desert Storm
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
(1990)
Kindergarten Cop
as Stewardess
(1990)
Challenger
as Cheryl McNair
(1990)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
as Carla Peters
(1990)
(1986)
F/X
as TV reporter
(1986)
Liberty
as Linda Thornton
(1985)
Doubletake
as Prostitute at Headquarters
Crew
(2023)
Heist 88
Executive Producer
(2019)
Otherhood
Executive Producer
(2015)
Whitney
Director
(2002)
Our America
Executive Producer
(2001)
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Producer