Angela Bassett
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DOB
16 August 1958, New York, New York, USA
16 August 1958, New York, New York, USA
Height
5' 4"
5' 4"
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Angela Bassett

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Filmography
Actor:
1. Meet the Browns (2008) .... Brenda2. Nothing But the Truth (2008) ....
3. Meet the Robinsons (2007) .... Mildred
4. Toussaint (2007) .... Suzanne Louverture
5. Gospel Hill (2007) .... Sarah Malcolm



Trivia
- (1997) Engaged to Courtney B. Vance.
- Bassett has built her career around playing some of the most celebrated real-life, pioneering black women of the twentieth century. She was Oscar-nominated and won both the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture for her star-making performance as Tina Turner/Anna Mae Bullock in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). She won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work as the late-Dr. Betty Shabazz (widow of the slain civil rights pioneer Malcolm X) in Spike Lees Malcolm X (1992). She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in Mario Van Peebles Panther (1995). She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, Jacksons: An American Dream, The (1992). In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in Music of the Heart (1999). She was also in the running to play Dorothy Dandridge, until Halle Berry beat her to the punch with the HBO telefilm, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999).
- She was once employed as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.



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