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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress, director, producer, and activist. She is 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 the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.


Aliases
  • Angela Evelyn Bassett
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9-1-1

2018
as Athena Grant-Nash

Black Panther

2018
as Ramonda

Soul

2020
as Dorothea Williams

Damsel

2024
as Lady Bayford

Avengers: Endgame

2019
as Ramonda

American Horror Story

2011
as Monet Tumusiime

American Horror Story

2011
as Desiree Dupree

American Horror Story

2011
as Ramona Royale

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2005
as Mr. Smith's Boss (Voice)

BoJack Horseman

2014
as Ana Spanikopita

Olympus Has Fallen

2013
as Lynne Jacobs

London Has Fallen

2016
as Lynne Jacobs

Otherhood

2019
as Carol Walker

Green Lantern

2011
as Dr. Amanda Walker

This Means War

2012
as Collins

Bumblebee

2018
as Shatter

ER

1994
as Catherine Banfield

Wendell & Wild

2022
as Sister Helley

Orion and the Dark

2024
as Sweet Dreams

Kindergarten Cop

1990
as Stewardess

Contact

1997
as Rachel Constantine

Malcolm X

1992
as Dr. Betty Shabazz

Boyz n the Hood

1991
as Reva Devereaux

August 28th

2016
as Angela Bassett

Panther

1995
as Dr. Betty Shabazz

Betty and Coretta

2013
as Coretta Scott King

Passion Fish

1992
as Rhonda / Dawn

Queens (2024)

2024
as Narrator

The Jacksons: An American Dream

1992
as Katherine Jackson

Meet the Browns

2008
as Brenda Brown

Notorious

2009
as Voletta Wallace

Vampire in Brooklyn

1995
as Detective Rita Veder

City of Hope

1991
as Reesha

Supernova

2000
as Dr. Kaela Evers

Mr. 3000

2004
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons

Challenger

1990
as Cheryl McNair

The Rosa Parks Story

2002
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

The Flood (2018)

2018
as Narrator (voice)

Our Friend, Martin

1999
as Miles' Mom (voice)

F/X

1986
as TV reporter

Innocent Blood

1992
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair

Zero Day

2025
as President Mitchell

Survivor

2015
as Maureen Cranepaul

Sunshine State

2002
as Desiree Perry

Black Nativity

2013
as Aretha Cobbs

What's Love Got to Do with It

1993
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner

Chi-Raq

2015
as Miss Helen

Strange Days

1995
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason

Critters 4

1992
as Fran

A Century of Black Cinema

2003
as Angela Bassett

Attorneys At Love

2020
as Narrator

Gospel Hill

2008
as Sarah Malcolm

Between the World and Me

2020
as Angela Bassett

Waiting to Exhale

1995
as Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

2003
as Self (archive footage)

The Lazarus Child

2006
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase

Music of the Heart

1999
as Principal Janet Williams

The Score

2001
as Diane

Nothing But the Truth

2008
as Bonnie Benjamin

A Man Called Hawk

1989
as Bailey Webster

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

2001
as Ruby Delacroix

Of Boys and Men

2008
as Rieta Cole

The Heroes of Desert Storm

1991
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter

Director

Movie Whitney 2015
Episode American Horror Story
Drink the Kool-Aid
2017
Episode Breakthrough
Water Apocalypse
2015
Episode American Horror Story
Chapter 6
2016

Producer

Movie Our America 2002

Guest Star

Episode Marvel Studios: Assembled
The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023
Episode Tour of Duty
Hard Stripe
1989
Episode Tour of Duty
The Volunteer
1989
Episode A Man Called Hawk
Never My Love
1989
Episode Alien Nation
Eyewitness News
1990
Episode The Cosby Show
Bookworm
1988
Episode The Talk
Angela Bassett, Jodie Sweetin
2019
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Angela Bassett, Jim Gaffigan
2019
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Angela Bassett, NCT 127
2021
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jack Black, Angela Bassett, Josh Groban
2018
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Angela Bassett; Chace Crawford
2019
Episode RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Rumerican Horror Story: Coven Girl
2021
Episode Master of None
Thanksgiving
2017
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Angela Bassett, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Goulet
1998
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Naomi Watts/Angela Bassett
2004
Episode Thirtysomething
Legacy
1989
Episode Sherri (2022)
Angela Bassett
2024
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Drama Actresses
2018
Episode Spenser: For Hire
The Choice
1985
Episode What If…?
What If… Killmonger rescued Tony Stark?
2021
Episode The Flash
Beat the Clock
1991
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Tom Cruise, Angela Bassett, Kacey Musgraves
2018
Episode The Bernie Mac Show
Laughing Matters
2003
Episode Larry King Now
Angela Bassett On Hillary Clinton, ‘AHS’ & Her Career
2016
Episode MPower
The Women of Black Panther
2023
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Angela Bassett & Burt Reynolds
2018
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Angela Bassett, Brian Tyree Henry, Julia Wolf
2023
Episode 227
A Pampered Tale
1989
Episode The Oprah Winfrey Show
Little Geniuses
2006
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Senator Bernie Sanders, Angela Bassett, Isabel Hagen
2020
Episode Show People with Paul Wontorek
Angela Bassett
2012
Episode Tamron Hall
Angela Bassett & Celebrating 25 years of Disney on Broadway
2020
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 1
2018
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Riz Ahmed, Angela Bassett, Jacob Collier ft. Mahalia
2021
Episode ER
Another Thursday at County
2008
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Angela Bassett, Noel Fielding, Mitch Rowland ft. Ben Harper
2024
Episode Today
June 13, 2011
2011
Episode 9-1-1: Lone Star
Prince Albert in a Can
2022
Episode A Man Called Hawk
The Master's Mirror
1989
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Angela Bassett, half-alive
2019
Episode The Cosby Show
Mr. Quiet
1985