Actors - Angela Bassett

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Angela Bassett

	Actors - Angela Bassett

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 appearance 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 was not 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?
. Bassett made headlines when she stated that she was offered the role in Monster's Ball for which Halle Berry won a history-making Oscar but did not accept it because of its representation of African-American female sexuality. She has been married to actor Courtney B. Vance since 1997. In the summer of 2005, Bassett and Vance starred together in a production of the play "His Girl Friday" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The couple's first children, son Slater Josiah and daughter Bronwyn Golden, were born on Friday, January 27, 2006. The children were 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)
The Jacksons: An American Dream
(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)
Meet the Robinsons
(2006) (voice)
''Tales from Earthsea (anime)

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Angela Bassett ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Angela Bassett; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Actors - Angela Bassett

Filmography

Searches on eBay

Related searches on eBay