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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress, director, producer, and activist. She is known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Aliases
  • Angela Evelyn Bassett
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Filmography

Black Panther

2018
as Ramonda

Soul

2020
as Dorothea Williams

Damsel

2024
as Lady Bayford

Avengers: Endgame

2019
as Ramonda

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2005
as Mr. Smith's Boss (Voice)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2022
as Queen Ramonda

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

2018
as Erika Sloane

Olympus Has Fallen

2013
as Lynne Jacobs

London Has Fallen

2016
as Lynne Jacobs

Otherhood

2019
as Carol Walker

Green Lantern

2011
as Dr. Amanda Walker

Meet the Robinsons

2007
as Mildred

This Means War

2012
as Collins

Bumblebee

2018
as Shatter (voice)

Gunpowder Milkshake

2021
as Anna May

Wendell & Wild

2022
as Sister Helley

Kindergarten Cop

1990
as Stewardess

Contact

1997
as Rachel Constantine

Malcolm X

1992
as Dr. Betty Shabazz

Boyz n the Hood

1991
as Reva Devereaux

August 28th

2016
as Angela Bassett

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

2012
as Herself

Panther

1995
as Dr. Betty Shabazz

Betty and Coretta

2013
as Coretta Scott King

Passion Fish

1992
as Rhonda / Dawn

Orion and the Dark

2024
as Sweet Dreams

Inventing the Robinsons: The Making of 'Meet the Robinsons'

2007
as Herself

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

2010
as Angela Bassett

White Bird in a Blizzard

2014
as Dr. Thaler

Meet the Browns

2008
as Brenda Brown

Notorious

2009
as Voletta Wallace

Vampire in Brooklyn

1995
as Detective Rita Veder

City of Hope

1991
as Reesha

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

2000
as Groove (voice)

Supernova

2000
as Dr. Kaela Evers

Mr. 3000

2004
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons

Challenger

1990
as Cheryl McNair

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

2003
as Bernadine Harris

The Rosa Parks Story

2002
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

Our Friend, Martin

1999
as Miles' Mom (voice)

F/X

1986
as TV reporter

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

2016
as Herself

Innocent Blood

1992
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair

Survivor

2015
as Maureen Cranepaul

Sunshine State

2002
as Desiree Perry

Black Nativity

2013
as Aretha Cobbs

Locked Up: A Mother's Rage

1991
as Willie

What's Love Got to Do with It

1993
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner

Akeelah and the Bee

2006
as Tanya

Masked and Anonymous

2003
as Mistress

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

Chi-Raq

2015
as Miss Helen

Boesman and Lena

2000
as Lena

Strange Days

1995
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason

Critters 4

1992
as Fran

A Century of Black Cinema

2003
as Angela Bassett

Attorneys At Love

2020
as Narrator

Gospel Hill

2008
as Sarah Malcolm

Between the World and Me

2020
as Angela Bassett

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

2015
as Dr. Kulinda

Waiting to Exhale

1995
as Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

2003
as Self (archive footage)

The Lazarus Child

2006
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014
as Angela Bassett

Music of the Heart

1999
as Principal Janet Williams

The Score

2001
as Diane

Nothing But the Truth

2008
as Bonnie Benjamin

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998
as Stella Payne

Jumping the Broom

2011

The Snowy Day

2016
as Nana

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

2001
as Ruby Delacroix

Of Boys and Men

2008
as Rieta Cole

The Heroes of Desert Storm

1991
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

1991
as Pat

Director

Movie Whitney 2015

Producer

Movie Our America 2002