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Angela Bassett
American actress
- In full:
- Angela Evelyn Bassett
- Awards And Honors:
- Golden Globe Award (2023)
- Golden Globe Award (1994): Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- On the Web:
- PBS - Finding Your Roots - Angela Bassett (Apr. 17, 2024)
Recent News
Apr. 22, 2024, 11:02 PM ET (New York Times)
‘Cabaret’ Opening on Broadway: Eddie Redmayne, Angela Bassett and Baz Luhrmann
Angela Bassett (born August 16, 1958, New York, New York, U.S.) American actress best known for portraying Black women who made history, including singer Tina Turner and civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Betty Shabazz, the wife of African American leader Malcolm X. Bassett was born in New York, New York, and raised by an aunt in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When Bassett was about five, she and her sister moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to live with their mother, who had separated from their father. While in high school Bassett saw John Steinbeck’s play Of Mice and Men, starring James ...(100 of 749 words)