Angela Bassett
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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- 2025 · Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Erika Sloane
- 2024 · Damsel as Lady Bayford
- 2024 · Queens as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Orion and the Dark as Sweet Dreams (voice)
- 2023 · MPower as Self
- 2023 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Self
- 2022 · Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Ramonda
- 2022 · Good Night Oppy as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Wendell & Wild as Sister Helley (voice)
- 2022 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2021 · 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
- 2021 · TINA as Self
- 2021 · What If...? as Queen Ramonda (voice)
- 2021 · Gunpowder Milkshake as Anna May
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · Soul as Dorothea (voice)
- 2020 · 9-1-1: Lone Star as Sergeant Athena Grant
- 2019 · The Imagineering Story as Narrator
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · Otherhood as Carol Walker
- 2019 · A Black Lady Sketch Show as Mo
- 2019 · Avengers: Endgame as Ramonda
- 2018 · Bumblebee as Shatter (voice)
- 2018 · Mission: Impossible - Fallout as Erika Sloane
- 2018 · Red Table Talk as Self
- 2018 · Black Panther as Ramonda
- 2018 · 9-1-1 as Athena Grant
- 2016 · The Snowy Day as Nana
- 2016 · BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration as Self
- 2016 · Close to the Enemy as Eva
- 2016 · London Has Fallen as Lynne Jacobs
- 2015 · Chi-Raq as Miss Helen Worthy
- 2015 · Master of None as Catherine
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Survivor as Maureen Cranepaul
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Ana Spanakopita (voice)
- 2014 · White Bird in a Blizzard as Dr. Thaler
- 2014 · Trailblazer Honors as Self
- 2014 · Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Black Nativity as Aretha Cobbs
- 2013 · The Arsenio Hall Show as Self
- 2013 · Olympus Has Fallen as Lynne Jacobs
- 2013 · Betty and Coretta as Coretta Scott King
- 2012 · RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as Self - Special Guest
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2012 · This Means War as Collins
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Marie Laveau
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Desiree Dupree
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Ramona Royale
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Monet Tumissee
- 2011 · Green Lantern as Dr. Amanda Waller
- 2011 · Jumping the Broom as Mrs. Watson
- 2010 · For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots as Self (voice)
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Notorious as Voletta Wallace
- 2008 · Nothing But the Truth as Bonnie Benjamin
- 2008 · Meet the Browns as Brenda Brown
- 2008 · Gospel Hill as Sarah Malcolm
- 2007 · Meet the Robinsons as Mildred (voice)
- 2006 · Akeelah and the Bee as Tanya Anderson
- 2005 · Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
- 2004 · Mr. 3000 as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Masked and Anonymous as Mistress
- 2002 · Sunshine State as Desiree Perry
- 2001 · The Bernie Mac Show as Angela Bassett
- 2001 · Alias as Hayden Chase
- 2001 · The Score as Diane
- 2000 · Whispers: An Elephant's Tale as Groove (voice)
- 2000 · Supernova as Dr. Kaela Evers
- 1999 · Music of the Heart as Janet
- 1998 · How Stella Got Her Groove Back as Stella Payne
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1997 · Contact as Rachel Constantine
- 1996 · Critics Choice Awards as Herself - Presenter
- 1995 · Waiting to Exhale as Bernadine
- 1995 · Vampire in Brooklyn as Detective Rita Veder
- 1995 · Strange Days as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
- 1995 · Panther as Dr. Betty Shabazz
- 1994 · ER as Catherine Banfield
- 1993 · What's Love Got to Do with It as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
- 1992 · Passion Fish as Rhonda / Dawn
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Betty Shabazz
- 1992 · The Jacksons: An American Dream as Katherine Jackson
- 1992 · Innocent Blood as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
- 1992 · Critters 4 as Fran
- 1992 · Nightmare Cafe as Evelyn Wall
- 1991 · Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage as Willie
- 1991 · The Heroes of Desert Storm as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
- 1991 · Boyz n the Hood as Reva Devereaux
- 1990 · Kindergarten Cop as Stewardess
- 1990 · The Flash as Linda Lake
- 1990 · Family of Spies as Bev Andress
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Michelle Obama (voice)
- 1989 · A Man Called Hawk as
- 1987 · thirtysomething as
- 1987 · Tour of Duty as Lt. Camilla Patterson
- 1986 · F/X as TV reporter
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · 227 as
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Sara
- 1983 · Reading Rainbow as Herself - Narrator (voice)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Zero Day as President Mitchell
- 2024 · Inside The Dream: Mugler as Self
- 2024 · Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
- 2024 · Butterfly in the Sky as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X as Host
- 2022 · 20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda as Self
- 2021 · Malika the Lion Queen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Between the World and Me as Self
- 2020 · Attorneys At Love as Narrator
- 2019 · The Apollo as Self
- 2018 · The Flood as Narrator
- 2017 · August 28: A Day in the Life of a People as Self
- 2016 · National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony as Self
- 2014 · We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama as
- 2012 · I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac as Self
- 2009 · Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Of Boys and Men as Rieta Cole
- 2006 · Time Bomb as Jill Greco
- 2004 · The Lazarus Child as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
- 2003 · Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives as
- 2002 · The Rosa Parks Story as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
- 2001 · Ruby's Bucket of Blood as Ruby Delacroix
- 2000 · Boesman and Lena as Lena
- 1999 · Our Friend, Martin as Miles' Mom (voice)
- 1998 · Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery as Herself
- 1991 · One Special Victory as Lois
- 1991 · City of Hope as Reesha
- 1991 · Stat as Dr. Willie Burns
- 1991 · Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor as Allison
- 1991 · Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story as Pat
- 1990 · In the Best Interest of the Child as Lori
- 1990 · Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer as Carla Peters
- 1990 · Challenger as Cheryl McNair
- 1985 · Doubletake as Prostitute at Headquarters
- Future · Wildwood as (voice)
- 1986 · Liberty as Linda Thornton
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter