Angela Bassett
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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- Born:
- Aug 16, 1958 In New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 77
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Gunpowder Milkshake
- Latest Project:
- Movie Black Panther II 2022-07-08
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | 2022 |
| Movie | Black Panther II | Ramonda | 2022-07-08 |
| Movie | Attorneys At Love | Narrator | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | Soul | Dorothea (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
| Movie | The Apollo | Herself | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019-08-13 |
| Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | 2019-04-24 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erika Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | 2018-12-15 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Herself | 2017-08-26 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Movie | National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony | Self | 2016-09-24 |
| Movie | BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration | Herself | 2016-11-15 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana | 2016-11-25 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda (voice) | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen Worthy | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Herself | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | Mrs. Watson | 2011-05-06 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Waller | 2011-06-16 |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Narrator (voice) | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Inventing the Robinsons: The Making of 'Meet the Robinsons' | Herself | 2007-10-23 |
| Movie | Meet the Robinsons | Mildred (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Time Bomb | Jill Greco | 2006-03-19 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mr. 3000 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | 2003-07-25 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Movie | Sunshine State | Desiree Perry | 2002-06-21 |
| Movie | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Boesman and Lena | Lena | 2000-11-03 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Miles' Mom (voice) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | Music of the Heart | Principal Janet Williams | 1999-10-29 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | 1998-08-14 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-05-04 |
| Movie | Waiting to Exhale | Bernie Harris | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | 1995-10-26 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Series | ER | Catherine Banfield | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Critters 4 | Fran | 1992-08-20 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| Movie | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Series | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 1992-11-15 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | 1991-01-21 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1991-10-29 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Series | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 1990-02-04 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Movie | F/X | TV reporter | 1986-02-07 |