Angela Bassett | |
|---|---|
 Bassett at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con | |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1985–present |
The following is a comprehensive list of acting and directing credits for American actress Angela Bassett .
Angela Bassett | |
|---|---|
| Bassett at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con | |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1985–present |
The following is a comprehensive list of acting and directing credits for American actress Angela Bassett .
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | F/X | TV Reporter | |
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop | Stewardess | |
| 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Reva Devereaux | |
| City of Hope | Reesha | ||
| 1992 | Innocent Blood | U.S. Attorney Barbara Sinclair | |
| Critters 4 | Fran | ||
| Malcolm X | Betty Shabazz | ||
| Passion Fish | Dawn / Rhonda | ||
| 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner | |
| 1995 | Panther | Betty Shabazz | |
| Strange Days | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | ||
| Vampire in Brooklyn | Detective Rita Veder | ||
| Waiting to Exhale | Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris | ||
| 1997 | Contact | Rachel Constantine | |
| 1998 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Stella Payne | |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Delia Woodman (voice) | |
| Music of the Heart | Principal Janet Williams | ||
| 2000 | Supernova | Dr. Kaela Evers | |
| Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Groove (voice) | ||
| Boesman and Lena | Lena | ||
| 2001 | The Score | Diane | |
| 2002 | Sunshine State | Desiree Stokes Perry | |
| 2003 | Unchained Memories | Dorothy | |
| Masked and Anonymous | Mistress Jane Humphrey | ||
| 2004 | The Lazarus Child | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | |
| Mr. 3000 | Maureen 'Mo' Simmons | ||
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Atlanta (voice) | Uncredited |
| 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Tanya Anderson | |
| 2007 | Meet the Robinsons | Mildred (voice) | |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | Sarah Malcolm | |
| Of Boys and Men | Rieta Cole | ||
| Meet the Browns | Brenda Brown | ||
| Nothing But the Truth | Bonnie Benjamin | ||
| 2009 | Notorious | Voletta Wallace | |
| 2011 | Jumping the Broom | Claudine Watson | |
| Green Lantern | Amanda Waller | ||
| 2012 | This Means War | Sarah Collins | |
| I Ain't Scared of You | Herself | ||
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs | |
| Black Nativity | Aretha Cobbs | ||
| 2014 | White Bird in a Blizzard | Dr. Willheima Thaler | |
| 2015 | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Dr. Kulinda (voice) | Direct-to-DVD |
| Survivor | Ambassador Maureen Crane | ||
| Chi-Raq | Miss Helen | ||
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs | |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Ramonda | |
| Mission: Impossible – Fallout | CIA Director Erika Sloane | ||
| Bumblebee | Shatter (voice) | ||
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Ramonda | Cameo |
| Otherhood | Carol Walker | ||
| 2020 | Soul | Dorothea Williams (voice) | |
| 2021 | Tina | Herself | Documentary |
| Gunpowder Milkshake | Anna May | ||
| 2022 | Wendell & Wild | Sister Helley (voice) | [1] |
| Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Ramonda | ||
| 2024 | Orion and the Dark | Sweet Dreams (voice) | |
| Damsel | Lady Bayford | [2] | |
| 2025 | Wildwood † | Iphigenia (voice) | In production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Search for Tomorrow | Selina McCulla | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| Spenser: For Hire | Alice | Episode: "The Choice" | |
| Doubletake | Porsha | Television film | |
| 1985, 1988 | The Cosby Show | Mrs. Mitchell / Sara | Episodes: "Mr. Quiet" / "Bookworm" |
| 1986 | Liberty | Linda Thornton | Television film |
| My Man Bovanne | Elo | Educational film [3] | |
| 1987 | Ryan's Hope | Leonie Peach | |
| Guiding Light | Angela | Episode: "1.103" | |
| Leg Work | Dr. Griffin | Episode: "Things That Go Bump in the Night" | |
| 1989 | HeartBeat | Jeanette Calder R.N. | Episode: "Gestalt and Battery" |
| A Man Called Hawk | Bailey Webster | Episodes: "The Master’s Mirror" and "Never My Love" | |
| Tour of Duty | Lieutenant Camilla Patterson | Episodes: "Hard Stripe" and "The Volunteer" | |
| 227 | Amy Burnett | Episode: "A Pampered Tale" | |
| Thirtysomething | Kate Harriton | Episode: "Legacy" | |
| 1990 | Alien Nation | Renee Longstreet | Episode: "Eyewitness News" |
| Family of Spies | Bev Andress | Episode "2" | |
| Snoops | Laura Hale | Episode: "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" | |
| Challenger | Cheryl McNair | Television film | |
| Equal Justice | Janet Fields | Episode: "Goodbye, Judge Green" | |
| In the Best Interest of the Child | Lori | Television film | |
| Perry Mason: In the Case of the Silenced Singer | Carla Peters | ||
| 1991 | Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story | Pat | |
| The Flash | Linda Lake | Episode: "Beat the Clock" | |
| Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor | Allison | Television film | |
| Stat | Dr. Willie Burns | Episode: "Ladyfinger" | |
| The Heroes of Desert Storm | Lieutenant Phoebe Jeter | Television film | |
| Locked Up: A Mother's Rage | Willie | ||
| One Special Victory | Lois | ||
| 1992 | Nightmare Cafe | Evelyn | Episode: "Sanctuary for a Child" |
| The Jacksons: An American Dream | Katherine Jackson | Episodes: "Part I" and "Part II" | |
| 2001 | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Ruby Delacroix | Television film |
| 2002 | The Rosa Parks Story | Rosa Parks | |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of Us | Sheyann Webb / Melba Pattillo (voice) | Episodes: "Marching to Freedom Land" and "Let Freedom Ring"; Documentary series |
| The Bernie Mac Show | Herself | Episode: "Laughing Matters" | |
| 2005 | Alias | CIA Director Hayden Chase | Episodes: "Authorized Personnel Only: Part I", "The Index", "Search and Rescue" and "The Descent" |
| 2006 | Time Bomb | Jill Greco | Television film |
| 2008–09 | ER | Dr. Cate Banfield | Main role, 16 episodes |
| 2010 | The Simpsons | First Lady Michelle Obama (voice) | Episode: "Stealing First Base" |
| 2011 | Identity | Martha Adams | Television pilot that did not get picked up |
| 2012 | Rogue | Alice Vargas | |
| 2013 | Betty & Coretta | Coretta Scott King | Television film |
| 2013–14 | American Horror Story: Coven | Marie Laveau | Recurring role, 12 episodes |
| 2014–15 | American Horror Story: Freak Show | Desiree Dupree | Main role, 11 episodes |
| 2015–16 | American Horror Story: Hotel | Ramona Royale | Main role, 7 episodes |
| 2015–18 | BoJack Horseman | Ana Spanakopita (voice) | Recurring role, 10 episodes |
| 2016 | American Horror Story: Roanoke | Lee Harris/Monet Tumusiime | Main role, 4 episodes (Harris) / 5 episodes (Tumusiime) |
| The Snowy Day | Nana/Ms. Cora (voice) | Television special | |
| Close to the Enemy | Eva | Miniseries; 7 episodes | |
| 2017 | Underground | The Root Woman | Episode: "Ache"; uncredited |
| 2017, 2021 | Master of None | Catherine | Episodes: "Thanksgiving" and "Moments in Love, Chapter 3" (voice only) |
| 2018 | American Horror Story: Apocalypse | Marie Laveau | Episode: "Apocalypse Then" |
| The Flood | Narrator | Television film | |
| 2018–present | 9-1-1 | Sergeant Athena Grant-Nash | Main role; also executive producer |
| 2019 | A Black Lady Sketch Show | Mo | Episode: "Angela Bassett Is the Baddest Bitch" |
| The Imagineering Story | Narrator | Documentary series | |
| 2021 | Malika the Lion Queen | Malika (voice) | Television film |
| What If...? | Ramonda (voice) | Episode: "What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?" | |
| RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars | Herself | Special guest; Episode: "Rumerican Horror Story: Coven Girls" | |
| Red Table Talk | Episode: "Jada’s Surprise 50th Birthday Celebration" | ||
| 2022 | 9-1-1: Lone Star | Sergeant Athena Grant-Nash | Episode: "Prince Albert in a Can" |
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Herself | Episode: "Angela Bassett/Kel Mitchell/Nyesha Arrington" | |
| 2024 | Queens | Narrator | Episodes: "African Queens" and "Rainforest Queens" [4] |
| Sherri | Herself | Episode: "Angela Bassett" | |
| TBA | Zero Day | President Mitchell | Upcoming series |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Beef, No Chicken | Drusilla | Yale Repertory Theatre |
| 1982 | Colored People's Time | Understudy | covered for Carol Maillard for two performances |
| 1983 | Antigone | Antigone | |
| 1983 | Fried Chicken and Invisibility | Conductor Dixon | |
| 1984 | The Mystery Plays | Eve, Noah's wife, Mary, and Gill | |
| 1985 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Dussie Mae | Broadway |
| 1986 | Black Girl | Ruth Ann | |
| 1987 | Pericles | Thaisa | |
| 1987 | Henry IV Part 1 | Lady Percy | |
| 1988 | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Martha Pentecost | Broadway |
| 1998 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | |
| 2005 | His Girl Friday | Hildy Johnson | |
| 2006 | Fences | Rose Maxson | |
| 2011–12 | The Mountaintop | Camae | Broadway |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege | Aurelia Arnot / Six | Voice role/motion capture |
| 2022 | Horizon Forbidden West | Regalla |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Whitney | Television movie |
| Breakthrough | Television documentary series; episode: "Water Apocalypse" | |
| 2016 | American Horror Story: Roanoke | Television series; episode: "Chapter 6" |
| 2017 | American Horror Story: Cult | Television series; episode: "Drink the Kool-Aid" |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Television film |
| 2002 | Our America | Television movie; executive producer |
| The Rosa Parks Story | ||
| 2017 | Remand | Documentary; executive producer |
| 2018–present | 9-1-1 | Television series; executive producer |
| 2019 | Otherhood | Movie; executive producer |
| 2020–present | 9-1-1: Lone Star | Television series; executive producer |
| 2023 | Heist 88 | Television Movie; executive producer [5] |
| 2024 | Queens | Limited Series; executive producer [6] |
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. The award has also been called Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture. Out of 12 films which featured African-Americans in leading roles in 1980, Cicely Tyson was the only female in that category. She played opposite Richard Pryor in Bustin' Loose. Because of this, she and officials at the annual NAACP Image Awards program decided that she should not accept the award.
The NAACP Image Award winners for the Chairman's Award:
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and eight Primetime Emmy Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023, and she was chosen to receive an Academy Honorary Award in 2023.
Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. He started his career on stage before moving to film and television. Vance has received various accolades, including a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for a Grammy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, adapted from Terry McMillan's best-selling 1996 novel of the same title. The film stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, and Regina King. The original music score was composed by Michel Colombier.
Vampire in Brooklyn is a 1995 American vampire comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven. It stars Eddie Murphy, who produced and wrote with his brothers Vernon Lynch and Charles Q. Murphy. The film co-stars Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Cassidy. Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher, Pauly, and a foul-mouthed Italian-American mobster, Guido, respectively.
NCAA Division I independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division I level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.
Airline Inthyrath, known by her stage name Jujubee, is an American drag queen, reality television personality, and recording artist from Lowell, Massachusetts. She first rose to prominence in 2010 as a contestant on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race, and later returned to compete on the first and fifth seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World (2022), becoming one of the most popular queens from the franchise. She has the unique distinction of being the only contestant to reach the finale of the competition four times. Additionally, she was a main cast member on the makeover television series RuPaul's Drag U (2010–2012), Dragnificent (2019–2020), and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race (2022). In 2021, she competed in the first season of Paramount+ singing competition Queen of the Universe.
Jack Dylan Grazer is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Eddie Kaspbrak in the horror film It (2017) and its 2019 sequel, Freddy Freeman in the DC Extended Universe film Shazam! (2019) and its 2023 sequel, and voicing Alberto Scorfano in the Pixar animated film Luca (2021). The Hollywood Reporter named him one of the top 30 stars under age 18 in 2018.
Ariana DeBose is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2022, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
DGM Racing is a Canadian professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is owned by Mario Gosselin. The team is now located in Lake Wales, Florida,The team formerly fielded a Truck Series team and an ARCA team. Gosselin won two ARCA races with the team. The team currently fields two Chevrolet Camaros, the No. 91 full-time for Kyle Weatherman and the No. 92 full-time for multiple drivers. The team also fields the No. 36 Chevrolet Camaro part-time for Natalie Decker.
9-1-1 is an American procedural drama television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear for Fox, later airing on ABC. The series follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and dispatchers.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) rankings, which were introduced in February 2013, are generated by a voting panel made up of media members. These media members are asked to vote for whom they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are of active status in the UFC. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings.
A Black Lady Sketch Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by Robin Thede for HBO. The show consists of comedy sketches performed by a main cast of Black women, consisting of producer and creator Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, and Skye Townsend. Alumni cast members include Quinta Brunson, Laci Mosley, and Ashley Nicole Black. The show has featured guest stars such as Issa Rae, Vanessa Williams, Angela Bassett, Laverne Cox, Nicole Byer, Amber Riley, Miguel, Omarion, Raven-Symoné, Kelly Rowland, Tia Mowry, Tahj Mowry, Gabrielle Union, Kyla Pratt, Wanda Sykes, and Patti LaBelle.
Reacher is an American action crime television series developed by Nick Santora for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child, it stars Alan Ritchson as the title character, a self-proclaimed hobo and former U.S. Army military policeman with formidable strength, intellect, and abilities. During his travels, Reacher crosses paths with dangerous criminals and is forced to do battle.
Abbott Elementary is an American mockumentary sitcom television series created by Quinta Brunson for ABC. It stars Brunson as Janine Teagues, a perpetually optimistic second-grade teacher at the underfunded Abbott Elementary, a fictional predominantly Black school in Philadelphia. The ensemble cast includes Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, William Stanford Davis, and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Damsel is a 2024 American dark fantasy film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Dan Mazeau. Millie Bobby Brown stars as Elodie, who accepts a marriage proposal only to realize that she is being used to repay a royal family's ancient debts, and must now escape while surviving attacks from the dragon lurking in the chasm. The rest of the principal cast consists of Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Bassett, and Robin Wright.
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)