Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett 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. 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). 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 also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). For the latter, she won another Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, Bassett has starred as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). 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. 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 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the Fox drama series 9-1-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Wildwood — The General (voice)
• 9-1-1: Nashville — Executive Producer
• 2025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning — Erika Sloane
• Number One on the Call Sheet — Self, Executive Producer
• Zero Day — President Evelyn Mitchell
• 2024Damsel — Lady Bayford
• Doctor Odyssey — Athena Grant
• 2024Orion and the Dark — Sweet Dreams (voice)
• Queens — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2023Heist 88 — Executive Producer
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur — Decoy (voice)
• 2023The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X — Host
• 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ramonda
• 2022Wendell & Wild — Sister Helley (voice)
• 2021Gunpowder Milkshake — Anna May
• Marvel Studios Legends — Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
• What If...? — Queen Ramonda (voice)
• 9-1-1: Lone Star — Sergeant Athena Grant, Executive Producer
• 2020Attorneys At Love — Narrator
• 2020Soul — Dorothea (voice)
• A Black Lady Sketch Show — Mo
• 2019Avengers: Endgame — Ramonda
• 2019Otherhood — Carol Walker, Executive Producer
• The Imagineering Story — Narrator (voice)
• 9-1-1 — Athena Grant, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
• 2018Black Panther — Ramonda
• 2018Bumblebee — Shatter (voice)
• 2018Mission: Impossible - Fallout — Erika Sloane
• Close to the Enemy — Eva
• 2016London Has Fallen — Lynne Jacobs
• 2016The Snowy Day — Nana (voice)
• Breakthrough — Director
• 2015Chi-Raq — Miss Helen Worthy
• 2015Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle — Dr. Kulinda (voice)
• Master of None — Catherine
• 2015Survivor — Maureen Cranepaul
• 2015Whitney — Director
• BoJack Horseman — Ana Spanakopita (voice)
• 2014White Bird in a Blizzard — Dr. Thaler
• 2013Betty and Coretta — Coretta Scott King
• 2013Black Nativity — Aretha Cobbs
• 2013Olympus Has Fallen — Lynne Jacobs
• 2012This Means War — Collins
• American Horror Story — Desiree Dupree, Ramona Royale, Monet Tumissee, Marie Laveau, Director
• 2011Green Lantern — Dr. Amanda Waller
• 2011Jumping the Broom — Mrs. Watson
• 2009Notorious — Voletta Wallace
• 2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy — Narrator (voice)
• 2008Gospel Hill — Sarah Malcolm
• 2008Meet the Browns — Brenda Brown
• 2008Nothing But the Truth — Bonnie Benjamin
• 2008Of Boys and Men — Rieta Cole
• 2007Meet the Robinsons — Mildred (voice)
• 2006Akeelah and the Bee — Tanya Anderson
• 2006Time Bomb — Jill Greco
• 2005Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
• 2004Mr. 3000 — Maureen "Mo" Simmons
• 2004The Lazarus Child — Dr. Elizabeth Chase
• 2003Masked and Anonymous — Mistress
• 2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
• 2002Our America — Executive Producer
• 2002Sunshine State — Desiree Perry
• 2002The Rosa Parks Story — Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
• Alias — Hayden Chase
• 2001Ruby's Bucket of Blood — Ruby Delacroix, Producer
• The Bernie Mac Show — Angela Bassett
• 2001The Score — Diane
• 2000Boesman and Lena — Lena
• 2000Supernova — Kaela Evers
• 2000Whispers: An Elephant's Tale — Groove (voice)
• 1999Music of the Heart — Janet
• 1999Our Friend, Martin — Miles' Mom (voice)
• 1998How Stella Got Her Groove Back — Stella Payne
• 1997Contact — Rachel Constantine
• 1995Panther — Dr. Betty Shabazz
• 1995Strange Days — Lornette 'Mace' Mason
• 1995Vampire in Brooklyn — Detective Rita Veder
• 1995Waiting to Exhale — Bernadine
• ER — Catherine Banfield
• 1993What's Love Got to Do with It — Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
• 1992Critters 4 — Fran
• 1992Innocent Blood — U.S. Attorney Sinclair
• 1992Malcolm X — Betty Shabazz
• Nightmare Cafe — Evelyn Wall
• 1992Passion Fish — Rhonda / Dawn
• The Jacksons: An American Dream — Katherine Jackson
• 1991Boyz n the Hood — Reva Styles
• 1991City of Hope — Reesha
• 1991Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor — Allison
• 1991Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story — Pat
• 1991Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage — Willie
• 1991One Special Victory — Lois
• Stat — Dr. Willie Burns
• 1991The Heroes of Desert Storm — Lt. Phoebe Jeter
• 1990Challenger — Cheryl McNair
• Family of Spies — Bev Andress
• 1990In the Best Interest of the Child — Lori
• 1990Kindergarten Cop — Stewardess
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer — Carla Peters
• The Flash — Linda Lake
• A Man Called Hawk
• Alien Nation — Renee Longstreet
• Snoops — Laura Hale
• The Simpsons — Michelle Obama (voice)
• Tour of Duty — Lt. Camilla Patterson
• thirtysomething
• 1986F/X — TV reporter
• 1986Liberty — Linda Thornton
• 227
• 1985Doubletake — Prostitute at Headquarters
• Spenser: For Hire
• The Cosby Show — Sara

Appearances as themselves (49)

• 2025Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special — Self
• 2024Butterfly in the Sky — Self (archive footage)
• Disney Legends Award Ceremony — Self - Honoree
• Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Inside the Dream: Mugler — Self
• 2024OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett — Self
• MPower — Self
• 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Self
• 202220/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda — Self
• 2022Good Night Oppy — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2021Malika the Lion Queen — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2021TINA — Self
• 2020Between the World and Me — Self
• 2019The Apollo — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Red Table Talk — Self
• 2018The Flood — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2017August 28: A Day in the Life of a People — Self
• Steve — Self
• 2016BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration — Self
• 2016National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Trailblazer Honors — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2014We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama — Self
• The Arsenio Hall Show — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2012I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Special Guest
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Critics Choice Awards — Self - Presenter
• 2001Making "The Score" — Herself
• Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery — Herself
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Film '72 — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee