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Born: 16 August 1958, New York, New York, USA (age 48)
Birth Name: Angela Evelyn Bassett
Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 18 wins & 15 nominations
Credited Years: 1985 - 2007
Profession: Actress / Producer / Self
Known for: Malcolm X / Strange Days / How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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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 ... more
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- Engaged to Courtney B. Vance. [1997]
- 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/Anna Mae Bullock in What's Love Got to Do with It. She won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work as the late-Dr. Betty Shabazz (widow of the slain civil rights pioneer Malcolm X) in Spike Lee's Malcolm X. She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in Mario Van Peebles' Panther. She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, The Jacksons: An American Dream. In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in Music of the Heart. She was also in the running to play Dorothy Dandridge, until Halle Berry beat her to the punch with the HBO telefilm, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.
- She was once employed as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.
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- Meet The Browns [2-disc Special Edition (w/DIGITAL COPY)] - DVDTOWN.com
By James Plath I "get" Angela Bassett. But I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand what makes Tyler Perry popular. I just don't get the racial ... - Test Yourself - The Times
4 Who directed the 1992 film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett? 5 Which landlocked East African country is the only African country ... - Heeere?s your eviction notice - Boston Herald
Consider the mansion that actress Angela Bassett and her actor husband Courtney Vance are trying to unload. The couple originally listed the home, ... - Habitat for Humanity celebrates completion of a family's dream - Alexandria Echo Press
Homebuyers, Michael and Angela Bassett, are more than just a little eager to move into their new home. They have completed 400 hours of ?sweat equity? ... - St. Petersburg debs special guests at recent parties - Tampabay.com
Actor Angela Bassett, a former St. Petersburg resident, is among the famous beauties featured in the latest edition of Italian Vogue, although the magazine ... - Rate increases are released - Tyler Star News
... Bassett has supplied equipment to Dalrymple and is working to further resolve the sewer problem. Two residents from McCoy Heights, Angela Bennett and ... - Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (2008) - Real Movie News
The film features a vastly differed cast, including the Oscar-nominated Angela Bassett and former basketball champion Rick Fox. ... - TCA press tour: The end ? but first? - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The only cast member on hand was Angela Bassett, who?ll play the new chief of the ?ER.? I?ll write a big farewell story on ?ER? and its exit when the season ... - Blu-ray Review: Meet the Browns - Monsters and Critics.com
Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mother living in inner city Chicago with her three kids and trying hard to make ends meet. On the way to work with her ... - Am: Virginias retains Women's Team lead - WRAL.com
In match six, Longwood University sophomore Kameron Carter (Bassett, Va.) teamed with Boodie McGurn (Richmond, Va.) for a halve and the resulting ...