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 Whats 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 Fallen2013 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 911 Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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