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Date of Birth

16 August 1958, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Angela Evelyn Bassett

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini Biography

Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, and grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. Pushed by a high school teacher, she applied for Yale University and got a scholarship, ultimately spending seven years there including three post-graduate years studying drama. She first appeared in small roles on "The Cosby Show" (1984) and "Spenser: For Hire" (1985), but it was not until 1990 that a spate of television roles brought her notice. Her breakthrough role, though, was playing Tina Turner, whom she had never seen perform before taking the role, in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). Bassett's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golded Globe Award for Best Actress.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>

Mini Biography

Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters, stages, and television screens throughout the world. A native of New York City, Bassett and her sister D'nette grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida with their mother Betty. As a single mother and social worker, Betty stressed the importance of education for her children. With the assistance of an academic scholarship, Bassett matriculated into Yale University. In 1980, she received her B.A. in African-American studies from Yale University. 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 appeared in her first film Doubletake (1988) (TV). However, she is more recognized for her role in the F/X (1986) series. It was not until 1993 that she earned widespread recognition for her portrayal of Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). Bassett's performance garnered a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Bassett currently resides with her husband in California.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Mykwain A. Gainey <mgainey1@hotmail.com>

Spouse

Courtney B. Vance (12 October 1997 - present) 2 children

Trivia

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 (1993). 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 (1992). She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in Mario Van Peebles' Panther (1995/I). 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). In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in Music of the Heart (1999). She was also in the running to play Dorothy Dandridge, until Halle Berry beat her to the punch with HBO's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV). Her first and only Emmy nomination to date was for her lead role in The Rosa Parks Story (2002) (TV).

She was once employed as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.

In 1974, she began to consider acting as a career choice after an 11th-grade class trip to Washington, D.C. during which she saw actor James Earl Jones perform in a Kennedy Center production of the play "Of Mice and Men".

Was offered the role of Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001), but she turned it down as she did not want to perform nude. As a result Halle Berry, who went on to become the first African-American actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.

Won the 2002 Lena Horne Award for Outstanding Career Achievements in the Field of Entertainment.

Played Muslim activist Betty Shabazz in two different movies: Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995/I).

Graduated from Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport, Florida, Class of 1976.

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 in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993).

Graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in African-American studies (1980).

Graduated from Yale drama school with a Master of Fine Arts Degree (1983)

Angela and her husband, Courtney B. Vance, became the parents of twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, on January 27, 2006 in California through a surrogate.

Her performance as Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) (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 What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which earned her an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Nearly fifteen years later, they both teamed up with Oscar nominee Margaret Avery in Meet the Browns (2008), in which Bassett and Lewis played sisters.

Bassett's line "Right here! Right now!" from Strange Days (1995) was sampled as the only 'lyrics' used repeatedly in the song "Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim, his best known song.

Was in consideration for the role of Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990) but Whoopi Goldberg, who went on to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.

Is one of 10 African-American actresses to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. The others in chronological order are: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe, Viola Davis and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Is a vegetarian.

She was mentioned in A Christmas Tale (2008).

Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in 2008.

Salary

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) $250,000.00

Waiting to Exhale (1995) $2,500,000

Supernova (2000/I) $3,500,000.00

The Score (2001) $3,500,000.00

Where Are They Now

(July 2005) Starring with her husband, Courtney B. Vance, in John Guare's rendition of "His Girl Friday" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN.

(December 2006) Release of the book, "Friends: A Love Story" by Angela and her husband, Courtney B. Vance.

(April 2010) She is in Buenos Aires, Argentina to be part of the international jury at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema