Angela Bassett

Actress, Director

8/16/1958 (63 years old) New York, New York, United States

Filmography Facts Awards

Movies

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Green Lantern

Meet the Robinsons

Contact

Green Lantern (Extended Cut)

Mission Impossible: Fallout Trailer

London Has Fallen

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Vampire in Brooklyn

Soul

Notorious (Director's Cut)

Mr. 3000

Olympus Has Fallen

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame

What’s Love Got to Do with It

TV

ER

ER: The Complete Series

First thought about becoming an actress when she saw James Earl Jones in a Kennedy Center production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men while on a school trip in 1974.
Met husband Courtney B. Vance at the Yale Drama School.
In addition to Boyz N the Hood and her breakout role in 1993's What's Love Got to Do With It, has appeared with Laurence Fishburne in Akeelah and the Bee and a Pasadena Playhouse production of August Wilson's Fences (both in 2006).
Beat out Halle Berry and Robin Givens for the role of Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It.

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Directors Guild of America Awards

Golden Globe

Oscar

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