Angela Bassett
Birthday: 1958-08-16 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USAAngela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist. She is best known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a corresponding Golden Globe Award. Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995), Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story (2002), Voletta Wallace in Notorious (2009) and Coretta Scott King in Betty & Coretta (2013). Bassett's performance as Parks was honored with her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angela Bassett licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as President Evelyn Mitchell
as Dorothea (voice)
as Lady Bayford
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
as Ramonda
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Sister Helley (voice)
as Anna May
as Catherine (voice)
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Self
as Carol Walker
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Athena Grant
as Erika Sloane
as Narrator
as Ramonda
