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:
- Movie Black Panther II 2022-07-08
- Latest Project:
- In the movie Gunpowder Milkshake
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Black Panther II | Ramonda | 2022-07-08 |
| Movie | Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | 2022 |
| Movie | Attorneys At Love | Narrator | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | Soul | Dorothea | 2020-12-25 |
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019-08-13 |
| Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | The Apollo | Herself | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | 2018-12-15 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erica Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Herself | 2017-08-26 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration | Herself | 2016-11-15 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony | Herself | 2016-09-24 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama | 2014-02-11 | |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Herself | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Waller | 2011-06-16 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | 2011-05-06 | |
| Movie | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Narrator | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-01-01 |
| 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 | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Mr. 3000 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Movie | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | 2003-07-25 |
| Movie | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | Sunshine State | Desiree Perry | 2002-06-21 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Movie | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-05-04 |
| 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 | Malcolm X | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| 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 | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1991-10-29 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | 1991-01-21 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 1990-02-04 |
| Movie | F/X | TV reporter | 1986-02-07 |