Angela Evelyn Bassett (lahir 16 Agustus 1958) adalah seorang aktris dan aktivis Amerika. Dia dikenal karena peran film biografinya, terutama penampilannya sebagai Tina Turner dalam film biografi What Love Got to Do with It (1993), di mana dia dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktris Terbaik dan memenangkan Golden Globe Award untuk Best Aktris - Film Komedi Bergerak atau Musikal. Bassett juga memerankan Betty Shabazz di Malcolm X (1992) dan Panther (1995), Katherine Jackson dalam The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Voletta Wallace di Notorious (2009), dan Coretta Scott King di Betty & Coretta (2013) ). Perannya yang lain termasuk Rachel Constantine in Contact (1997), Amanda Waller di Green Lantern (2011), Lynne Jacobs di Olympus Has Fallen (2013) dan London Has Fallen (2016), dan Queen Ramonda in Black Panther (2018).
Bassett memulai karir filmnya pada pertengahan 1980-an, setelah mendapatkan gelar sarjana seni dari Universitas Yale dan gelar magister seni rupa dari Yale School of Drama. Pada 1990-an, ia muncul di film hampir setiap tahun. Tahun 2000-an menyaksikan suksesi film yang dibintangi Bassett, dengan dia tampil di setidaknya satu film setiap tahun. Kesuksesan Bassett terus berlanjut hingga 2010-an. Bassett mendapatkan nominasi untuk perannya dalam film-film seperti The Score (2001), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Meet the Browns (2008) dan Jumping the Broom (2011), dan memenangkan penghargaan untuk penampilannya dalam How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) dan Music of the Heart (1999), antara lain. Penampilan Bassett sebagai Rosa Parks dalam film 2002 The Rosa Parks Story mendapat kehormatan dengan nominasi Primetime Emmy Award pertamanya.
Pada tahun 2013, Bassett memiliki peran yang berulang pada seri antologi horor FX American Horror Story: Coven, mendapatkan nominasi Primetime Emmy Award keduanya untuk penampilannya sebagai ratu Voodoo Marie Laveau. Dia kembali untuk Freak Show, musim keempat serial ini, menggambarkan seorang wanita berpayudara tiga bernama Desiree Dupree, di mana dia menerima nominasi Emmy Award lagi. Untuk musim kelima, Hotel, ia memerankan Ramona Royale, seorang bintang film terkenal. Bassett kembali ke siklus keenam seri itu, Roanoke, memerankan seorang aktris pecandu alkohol bernama Monet Tumusiime, yang memerankan ibu yang berjuang dan mantan polisi Lee Harris dalam film dokumenter My Roanoke Nightmare, dan dia mengulang perannya sebagai Marie Laveau dalam peran sebagai bintang tamu di film kedelapan. Musim kiamat. Pada tahun 2018, Bassett mulai memproduksi dan membintangi drama seri responden pertama Fox 9-1-1, bermain sebagai sersan patroli LAPD Athena Grant.
Films[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | F/X | TV Reporter | |
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | |
| 1991 | Critters 4 | Fran | |
| 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | |
| 1991 | City of Hope | Reesha | |
| 1992 | Passion Fish | Dawn/Rhonda | |
| 1992 | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Betty Shabazz | |
| 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock/Tina Turner | |
| 1995 | Panther | Betty Shabazz | |
| 1995 | Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | |
| 1995 | Vampire in Brooklyn | Det. Rita Veder | |
| 1995 | Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine "Bernie" Harris | |
| 1997 | Contact | Rachel Constantine | |
| 1998 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Miles' Mom | Voice role |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | Principal Janet Williams | |
| 2000 | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | |
| 2000 | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove | Voice role |
| 2000 | Boesman and Lena | Lena | |
| 2001 | The Score | Diane | |
| 2002 | Sunshine State | Desiree Stokes Perry | |
| 2003 | Unchained Memories | Reader | |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Mistress | |
| 2004 | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | |
| 2004 | Mr. 3000 | Maureen 'Mo' Simmons | |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith's Boss | Uncredited voice role |
| 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya Anderson | |
| 2007 | Meet the Robinsons | Mildred | Voice role |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | |
| 2008 | Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | |
| 2008 | Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | |
| 2009 | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | |
| 2011 | Jumping the Broom | Claudine Watson | |
| 2011 | Green Lantern | Amanda Waller | |
| 2012 | This Means War | Collins | |
| 2012 | I Ain't Scared of You | Herself | |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs | |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | |
| 2014 | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Thaler | |
| 2015 | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda | Voice role; direct-to-video |
| 2015 | Survivor | Ambassador Maureen Crane | |
| 2015 | Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs | |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Ramonda | |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible – Fallout | CIA Director Erika Sloane | |
| 2018 | Bumblebee | Shatter | Voice role |
| 2019 | Otherhood | Carol Walker | Post-production |
Television films[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Doubletake | Prostitute at Headquarters | |
| 1986 | Liberty | Linda Thornton | |
| 1990 | Challenger | Cheryl McNair | |
| 1990 | In the Best Interest of the Child | Lori | |
| 1990 | Perry Mason: In the Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | |
| 1991 | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | |
| 1991 | The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | |
| 1991 | Locked Up: A Mother's Rage | Willie | |
| 1991 | One Special Victory | Lois | |
| 1991 | Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor | Allison | |
| 2001 | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | |
| 2002 | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Parks | |
| 2006 | Time Bomb | Jill Greco | |
| 2011 | Identity | Martha Adams | |
| 2012 | Rogue | Alice Vargas | |
| 2013 | Betty & Coretta | Coretta Scott King |
Television series[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Search for Tomorrow | Salina McCulla | 5 episodes |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | Joe's Daughter | Episode: "The Choice" |
| 1985 | The Cosby Show | Mrs. Mitchell | Episode: "Mr. Quiet" |
| 1987 | Ryan's Hope | Leonie Peach | Unknown episodes |
| 1988 | The Cosby Show | Sari | Episode: "Bookworm" |
| 1989 | HeartBeat | Jeanette Calder R.N. | Episode: "Gestalt and Battery" |
| 1989 | A Man Called Hawk | Bailey Webster | 3 episodes |
| 1989 | Tour of Duty | Lt. Camilla Patterson | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | 227 | Amy Burnett | Episode: "A Pampered Tale" |
| 1989 | Thirtysomething | Kate Harriton | Episode: "Legacy" |
| 1990 | Alien Nation | Renee Longstreet | Episode: "Eyewitness News" |
| 1990 | Equal Justice | Janet Fields | Episode: "Goodbye, Judge Green" |
| 1990 | Family of Spies | Bev Andress | 2 episodes |
| 1991 | The Flash | Linda Lake | Episode: "Beat the Clock" |
| 1991 | Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | Episode: "Ladyfinger" |
| 1992 | Nightmare Cafe | Evelyn | Episode: "Sanctuary for a Child" |
| 1992 | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | 2 episodes |
| 1995 | Get Smart | Runway Model (uncredited) | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of Us | Sheyann Webb (voice) | Episode: "Marching to Freedom Land" |
| 2003 | Melba Pattillo (voice) | Episode: "Let Freedom Ring" | |
| 2003 | The Bernie Mac Show | Herself | Episode: "Laughing Matters" |
| 2005 | Alias | CIA Director Hayden Chase | 4 episodes |
| 2008–09 | ER | Dr. Cate Banfield | 16 episodes |
| 2010 | The Simpsons | First Lady Michelle Obama (voice) | Episode: "Stealing First Base" |
| 2013–14 | American Horror Story: Coven | Marie Laveau | 12 episodes |
| 2014–15 | American Horror Story: Freak Show | Desiree Dupree | 11 episodes |
| 2015–18 | BoJack Horseman | Ana Spanakopita (voice) | 10 episodes |
| 2015–16 | American Horror Story: Hotel | Ramona Royale | 7 episodes |
| 2016 | American Horror Story: Roanoke | Lee Harris | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | Monet Tumusiime | 5 episodes | |
| 2016 | Close to the Enemy | Eva | 7 episodes |
| 2017 | Underground | Midwife | Episode: "Ache" |
| 2017 | Master of None | Catherine | Episode: "Thanksgiving" |
| 2018–present | 9-1-1 | Sergeant Athena Grant | 18 episodes |
| 2018 | American Horror Story: Apocalypse | Marie Laveau | Episode: "Apocalypse Then" |
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