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Birthday: August 16, 1958
A respected actress of the stage, screen, and television, Angela Bassett has been one of the few African-American actresses to break Hollywood's color boundary. She has specialized in playing strong women familiar with adversity and has worked in genres from "chick flick" (Waiting to Exhale) to sci-fi action (Strange Days) to biography (What's Love Got to Do with It?), the last of ...more
- 2006
- Black Reel Awards
- Best Supporting Actress
- Akeelah and the Bee
- nom
- 2001
- Screen Actors Guild
- Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries
- Ruby's Bucket of Blood
- nom
- 1993
- Golden Globe
- Best Actress - Musical or Comedy
- What's Love Got to Do with It?
- win
- 1993
- Academy
- Best Actress
- What's Love Got to Do with It?
- nom
- 2009
- Notorious
- Voletta Wallace
- 2008
- Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
- Brenda
- 2007
- Meet the Robinsons
- Mildred
- 2006
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Tanya
- 2002
- The Rosa Parks Story
- Executive Producer
- 2002
- Our America
- Executive Producer
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