Angela Bassett (born August 16, 1958 in New York City)
is an African-American film actress.Born in New York
City, and then relocating to St.
Petersburg, Florida as a child. Angela and her sister
D'nette were raised by their social worker mother, Betty.
Stressing the importance of an education by their mother,
Angela earned an academic scholarship to Yale University.
She received her B.A. in African-American studies from
Yale in 1980.
In 1983, she earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from
the Yale School of Drama It was at Yale that Bassett
met her husband Courtney B. Vance a 1986 graduate of
the Drama school.
Soon after graduating from Yale, Bassett
made her first appeareance on television as a prostitute
in the TV movie Doubletake (1985). However, she made
her official film debut as a news reporter in the
film F/X (1986). Bassett soon gained recognition in
the highly acclaimed, but controversial, films Boyz
n the Hood (1991) and Malcolm X (1992).For her portrayal
of Betty Shabazz in that film, Bassett earned an Image
award.
It wasn't until 1993 that she earned a Golden Globe
and a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her
portrayal of Tina Turner in the film What's Love Got
to Do with It?. She's been married to actor Courtney
B. Vance since 1997. In December 2005, the entertainment
program Extra TV reported that the couple are expecting
their first children, a set of twins, carried by a
surrogate mother.
Filmography
F/X (1986)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
City of Hope (1991)
Passion Fish (1992)
Innocent Blood (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Panther (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Contact (1997)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Music of the Heart (1999)
Supernova (2000)
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000) (voice)
Boesman and Lena (2000)
The Score (2001)
Sunshine State (2002)
Ride to Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
(2003) (documentary) (narrator)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
The Lazarus Child (2004)
Mr. 3000 (2004)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) (voice only)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) (currently in post-production)
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