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Angela Bassett

16 Aug, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Άντζελα Μπάσετアンジェラ・バセットAngela Evelyn Bassett安琪拉·貝瑟安吉拉·巴塞特

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Malcolm X
75% (1992)
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Passion Fish
67% (1992)
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Mr. 3000
53% (2004)
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Panther
62% (1995)
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F/X
66% (1986)
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Chi-Raq
58% (2015)
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City of Hope
67% (1991)
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Otherhood
62% (2019)
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TINA
77% (2021)
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227
68% (1985)
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The View
45% (1997)
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Tamron Hall
51% (2019)
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ER
78% (1994)
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Stat
50% (1991)
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The Oscars
70% (1953)
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Red Table Talk
64% (2018)
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Queens
79% (2024)
Zero Day
0% (2025)
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Sherri
42% (2022)
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The View
45% (1997)
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MPower
70% (2023)