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:
- 80
- First Appeared:
- In the series Ryan's Hope 1975-07-07
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 2025-05-17
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Erika Sloane | 2025-05-17 |
| Movie | Butterfly in the Sky | Self (archive footage) | 2024-03-17 |
| Movie | Good Night Oppy | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022-11-04 |
| Movie | Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | 2021-07-14 |
| Movie | Soul | Dorothea (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019-08-13 |
| Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erika Sloane | 2018-07-25 |
| Movie | Avengers: Infinity War | Ramonda | 2018-04-25 |
| Movie | Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | 2018-11-22 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Self | 2017-08-26 |
| Movie | London Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2016-03-02 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Nana (voice) | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda (voice) | 2015-01-26 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen Worthy | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-10-15 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| Movie | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Self | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | Mrs. Watson | 2011-05-06 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Waller | 2011-06-14 |
| Series | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau | 2011-10-05 |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Self (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 | 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 | 2008-10-21 |
| Movie | Meet the Robinsons | Mildred (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Time Bomb | Jill Greco | 2006-03-19 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya Anderson | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2004-05-13 |
| 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 | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Movie | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | 2000-01-14 |
| Movie | Boesman and Lena | Lena | 2000-11-03 |
| Movie | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove (voice) | 2000-10-03 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Miles' Mom (voice) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | Music of the Heart | Janet | 1999-10-29 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | 1998-08-14 |
| Movie | Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery | Herself | 1998-10-19 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-05-03 |
| Movie | Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine | 1995-12-22 |
| 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 | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | 1992-09-25 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Betty Shabazz | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Rhonda / Dawn | 1992-12-11 |
| 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 Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1991-10-29 |
| Movie | One Special Victory | Lois | 1991-12-08 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Tour of Duty | Unknown | 1987-09-24 |
| Movie | F/X | TV reporter | 1986-02-07 |
| Series | 227 | Unknown | 1985-09-14 |
| Series | The Cosby Show | Unknown | 1984-09-20 |
| Series | Ryan's Hope | Leonie Peach | 1975-07-07 |