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Angela Bassett

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

as Erika Sloane

Movie
2024
Damsel

as Lady Bayford

Movie
2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

as Ramonda

Movie
2020
Soul

as Dorothea (voice)

Movie
2018
Bumblebee

as Shatter (voice)

Movie
2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

as Erika Sloane

Movie
2018
Black Panther

as Ramonda

Movie
2016
London Has Fallen

as Lynne Jacobs

Movie
2013
Olympus Has Fallen

as Lynne Jacobs

Movie
2011
Green Lantern

as Dr. Amanda Waller

Movie
2007
Meet the Robinsons

as Mildred (voice)

Movie
1997
Contact

as Rachel Constantine

Movie
1995
Strange Days

as Lornette 'Mace' Mason

Movie
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Wildwood

as General (voice)

Movie
2018
9-1-1

as Athena Grant

TV Show
2011
American Horror Story

as Desiree Dupree

TV Show