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Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett is an American actress. She was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City. 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.

Known For

Credits

Cast Credits

Number One on the Call Sheet (2025)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Zero Day (2025)
Starring as President Evelyn Mitchell (6 episodes)
Doctor Odyssey (2024)
Guest starring as Sergeant Athena Grant
  • Episode 1x11: Casino Week (Mar 20, 2025) [Special Guest Star]
Queens (2024)
Starring as Narrator (7 episodes)
Live with Kelly & Mark (2023)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (3 episodes)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023)
Starring as Decoy (2 episodes)
Sherri (2022)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
CBS Mornings (2021)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (2 episodes)
What If...? (2021)
Starring as Queen Ramonda
9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)
Guest starring as Athena Grant
The Imagineering Story (2019)
Starring as Narrator
Tamron Hall (2019)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019)
Guest starring as Mo
Today with Hoda & Jenna (2019)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Flood (2018)
Starring as Narrator (2 episodes)
9-1-1 (2018)
Starring as Sergeant Athena Grant (124 episodes)
Live with Kelly & Ryan (2017)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Close to the Enemy (2016)
Starring as Eva
Guest starring as Eva
Master of None (2015)
Guest starring as Catherine
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2015)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (2 episodes)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (3 episodes)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
BoJack Horseman (2014)
Guest starring as Ana Spanakopita (10 episodes)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (4 episodes)
The Arsenio Hall Show (2013)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars (2012)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
American Horror Story (2011)
Starring as Desiree Dupree (11 episodes)
Starring as Ramona Royale (7 episodes)
Starring as Lee Harris TV / Actress Monet Tumusiime (9 episodes)
Guest starring as Marie Laveau (13 episodes)
Conan (2010)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Talk (2010)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (4 episodes)
Watch What Happens Live (2009)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (5 episodes)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Jimmy Kimmel Live (2003)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Bernie Mac Show (2001)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Alias (2001)
Guest starring as Hayden Chase (4 episodes)
Critics' Choice Awards (2000)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998)
Starring as Narrator (4 episodes)
The View (1997)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
ER (1994)
Starring as Dr. Cate Banfield
The Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
Guest starring as Angela Basset
Nightmare Cafe (1992)
Guest starring as Evelyn Wall
The Flash (1990)
Guest starring as Linda Lake
The Simpsons (1989)
Guest starring as First Lady Michelle Obama
Alien Nation (1989)
Guest starring as Renee Longstreet
A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Guest starring as Bailey Webster (2 episodes)
Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist (1987)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
Guest starring as Alice
227 (1985)
Guest starring as Amy Burnett
Good Morning America (1975)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (2 episodes)
Oscars (1953)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (7 episodes)
Today (1952)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett
The Emmy Awards (1949)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (2 episodes)
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
Guest starring as Angela Bassett (2 episodes)

Crew Credits

9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)
Show crew as Executive Producer (60 episodes)
9-1-1 (2018)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer (10 episodes)
Show crew as Executive Producer (91 episodes)
American Horror Story (2011)
Episode crew as Director (2 episodes)
Keats ()
Show crew as Executive Producer
9-1-1: Nashville ()
Show crew as Executive Producer
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