Actress of Week: Angela Bassett

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"