Ten months after Bassett was born, her mother became pregnant and had a second child, Bassett's sister D'nette. Bassett's middle name was given to her in honor of her aunt Evelyn. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.īassett was born in New York City, to Betty Jane (née Gilbert), a social worker and civil servant, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a preacher's son. 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 20. 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. On television, Bassett has starred as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). For the latter, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). 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 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). īassett 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. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023 and she will receive the Academy Honorary Award later in the year. Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, and sixteen NAACP Image Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress.
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