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Angela Bassett
Age: 51
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Aug. 16th, 1958
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Angela Bassett's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Born in New York City, she grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. Pushed by a high school teacher, she applied for Yale and got a scholarship, ultimately spending 7 years there including 3 post-grad years studying drama. She first appeared in a small role in the cult favorite F/X (1986), but it was not until 1990 that a spate of TV roles brought her notice. Her breakthrough role, though, was playing Tina Turner, whom she had never seen perform before taking the role.
TRIVIA:
- She was once employed as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.
- Angela and her husband, 'Courtney B. Vance' (qv), became the parents of twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, on January 27, 2006 in California through a surrogate.
- As of 2005, she is the first and only African American recipient of the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, as 'Tina Turner' (qv) in _What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)_ (qv).
- Measurements: 34B-25-37 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- 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' (qv)/Anna Mae Bullock in _What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)_ (qv). She won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work as the late-Dr. 'Betty Shabazz' (qv) (widow of the slain civil rights pioneer 'Malcolm X' (qv)) in 'Spike Lee' (qv)'s _Malcolm X (1992)_ (qv). She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in 'Mario Van Peebles' (qv)' _Panther (1995/I)_ (qv). She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, _The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) (TV)_ (qv). In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in _Music of the Heart (1999)_ (qv). She was also in the running to play 'Dorothy Dandridge' (qv), until 'Halle Berry' (qv) beat her to the punch with HBO's _Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV)_ (qv). Her first and only Emmy nomination to date was for her lead role in _The Rosa Parks Story (2002) (TV)_ (qv).
- Her performance as 'Tina Turner' (qv) in _What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)_ (qv) (1993) was ranked at #95 on Premiere Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Film Performances of all time.
- In 1993, she and Jenifer Lewis played daughter and mother in the movie What's Love Got To Do With It, which earned her an Oscar nomination and a golden globe. Nearly fifteen years later, they both teamed up with Oscar nominee Margaret Avery in Meet the Browns, in which Bassett and Lewis played sisters.
- Graduated from Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport, Florida, Class of 1976.
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