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Angela Bassett

  • Birthplace: New York, New York
  • Birthday: August 16, 1958

This regally beautiful stage-trained black performer has distinguished herself on stage, TV and film, often playing intelligent but long-suffering women who exhibit strength, patience and quiet elegance. Bassett has played opposite some of contemporary Hollywood's most illustrious black leading men including Laurence Fishburne, Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy. She has also worked with such notable black filmmakers as Ossie Davis, Spike Lee and John Singleton. Bassett, however, has not been confined to "black subjects" as she ha…more

Credits

Actor
Producer

Career Milestones

  • 2008

    Co-starred in Tyler Perry s Meet the Browns

  • 2006

    Portrayed the mother of a young girl trying to make it to the National Spelling Bee, in Akeelah and the Bee

  • 2004

    Joined the cast of Alias (ABC) as the new CIA director

  • 2003

    Cast in the Bob Dylan film Masked & Anonymous

  • 2002

    Starred in Sunshine State with Edie Falco as a failed actress who goes with her friend home to their northern Florida town

Awards

  • 2002

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Special

  • 2002

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

  • 1999

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

  • 1998

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture

  • 1996

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture

Upcoming Appearances

In ER

Thursday at 10:00 pm NBC

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