Angela Bassett

Also Credited As:

Angela Evelyn Bassett
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Biography

Golden Globe-winning actress Angela Bassett was often associated with notable African-American cultural figures like Rosa Parks, Betty Shabazz, and Tina Turner, all of whom she portrayed on the big and small screens to critical acclaim. But when she was not ably filling the shoes of such important, multi-dimensional female icons in films like "What's Love Got to Do With It" (1992) and "Malcolm X" (1992), Bassett created equally compelling …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer

Born

Angela Evelyn Bassett on August 16, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Jumping the Broom

Mrs. Watson

Meet the Robinsons

Voice of Mildred

Faded Sequins, Tattered Dreams: Saving Hollywood's Classic Costumes

Host

Silence (Allan Carr)

Actor (has been mentioned to star. )

What's Love Got to Do With It

Tina Turner

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Stella

The Rosa Parks Story

Rosa McCauley Parks

The Heroes of Desert Storm

Army 1st Lieutenant Phoebe Jeter

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

Ruby Delacroix

Getting to Happy

Bernadine

Waiting to Exhale

Bernadine

Betty and Coretta

Coretta Scott King

Music of the Heart

Janet Williams

The Jacksons: An American Dream

Katherine Jackson

Mr. 3000

Mo Simmons

Sunshine State

Desiree Perry

Our Friend, Martin

of Miles' Mother

Black Nativity

Aretha Cobbs

Strange Days

Lornette "Mace" Mason

Supernova

Kaela Evers

When I Was A Girl

Interviewee

Passion Fish

Dawn/Rhonda

The Concert of the Century For VH1 Save the Music

Host

Malcolm X

Betty Shabazz

Boesman and Lena

Lena