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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Known For
Filmography
| Series | Zero Day | President Mitchell | 2025 |
| Movie | Wildwood | (voice) | 2025 |
| Movie | Orion and the Dark | Sweet Dreams (voice) | 2024-02-02 |
| Movie | Damsel | Lady Bayford | 2024-03-07 |
| Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Self | 2023-02-08 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Erika Sloane | 2023-07-08 |
| Series | MPower | 2023-03-08 | |
| Movie | Wendell & Wild | Sister Helley (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
| Movie | 20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda | Self | 2022-11-04 |
| Movie | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Ramonda | 2022-11-09 |
| Movie | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021-11-20 |
| Movie | TINA | Self | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | 2021-07-14 |
| Movie | Attorneys At Love | Narrator | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | Soul | Dorothea (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
| Movie | Between the World and Me | Self | 2020-11-21 |
| Movie | The Apollo | Self | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Otherhood | Carol Walker | 2019-08-13 |
| Series | The Imagineering Story | Narrator | 2019-11-12 |
| Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | 2019-04-24 |
| Movie | Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | 2018-12-15 |
| Series | 9-1-1 | Athena Grant | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | The Flood | Narrator | 2018-11-25 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Erika Sloane | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Ramonda | 2018-02-13 |
| 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 | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration | Self | 2016-11-15 |
| Series | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 2016-11-10 |
| Movie | National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony | Self | 2016-09-24 |
| Movie | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda (voice) | 2015-01-26 |
| Series | Master of None | Catherine | 2015-11-06 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen Worthy | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Survivor | Maureen Cranepaul | 2015-05-21 |
| Movie | We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama | 2014-02-11 | |
| Movie | Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee | Self | 2014-06-22 |
| Series | BoJack Horseman | Ana Spanakopita (voice) | 2014-08-22 |
| Movie | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | Betty and Coretta | Coretta Scott King | 2013-02-02 |
| Movie | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
| Movie | Olympus Has Fallen | Lynne Jacobs | 2013-03-20 |
| Movie | I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac | Self | 2012-02-19 |
| Movie | This Means War | Collins | 2012-02-14 |
| Movie | Green Lantern | Dr. Amanda Waller | 2011-06-14 |
| Series | American Horror Story | Marie Laveau | 2011-10-05 |
| Movie | Jumping the Broom | Mrs. Watson | 2011-05-06 |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Self (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Narrator (voice) | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | 2008-12-19 |
| Movie | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | 2008-03-21 |
| Movie | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | 2008-10-21 |
| Movie | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | 2008-02-09 |
| Movie | Inventing the Robinsons | The Making of Meet the Robinsons | Self (archival footage) | 2007-10-23 |
| 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 Anderson | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Mr. 3000 | Maureen "Mo" Simmons | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | 2003-07-25 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| Movie | Sunshine State | Desiree Perry | 2002-06-21 |
| Movie | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | The Score | Diane | 2001-07-13 |
| Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
| Movie | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | 2001-12-01 |
| Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| 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 |
| Series | Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery | Herself | 1998-10-19 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | 1998-08-14 |
| Movie | Contact | Rachel Constantine | 1997-07-11 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Herself - Presenter | 1996-01-10 |
| Movie | Panther | Dr. Betty Shabazz | 1995-05-03 |
| Movie | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | 1995-10-26 |
| Series | ER | Catherine Banfield | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Series | Nightmare Cafe | Evelyn Wall | 1992-01-29 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 1992-11-15 |
| Movie | Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor | Allison | 1991-02-18 |
| Movie | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | 1991-01-21 |
| Series | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | 1991-04-16 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | One Special Victory | Lois | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | City of Hope | Reesha | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage | Willie | 1991-10-29 |
| Movie | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | 1991-10-11 |
| Movie | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | 1990-02-25 |
| Series | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 1990-02-04 |
| Series | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | 1990-03-27 |
| Series | The Flash | Linda Lake | 1990-09-20 |
| Movie | In the Best Interest of the Child | Lori | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | 1990-05-20 |
| Movie | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | 1990-12-21 |
| Series | A Man Called Hawk | Unknown | 1989-01-28 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | thirtysomething | Unknown | 1987-09-29 |
| Series | Tour of Duty | Lt. Camilla Patterson | 1987-09-24 |
| Movie | F/X | TV reporter | 1986-02-07 |
| Movie | Liberty | Linda Thornton | 1986-06-23 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | 227 | Unknown | 1985-09-14 |
| Movie | Doubletake | Prostitute at Headquarters | 1985-11-24 |
| Series | The Cosby Show | Unknown | 1984-09-20 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
