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| Angela Bassett |
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"I like doing a little bit of it, but I don't like to do a lot of it because I don't want to stray too far from the text. You might be funny in the moment but when you put it all together with everything else, it's like, 'Eww! That's kind of like a sore thumb sticking out.'"
| Date of Birth: August 16, 1958 |
| Birthplace: New York City |
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| Angela made a name for herself playing real-life women in the TV mini-series The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) and on the silver screen in Malcolm X (1992) and What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). She's since starred in 1995's Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) and in the title role in the made-for-television drama The Rosa Parks Story (2002). |
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| Angela Bassett is a gifted and gorgeous actress we always enjoy catching in films or on our TV sets, although it isn't often due to her relatively low profile. |
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Angela Bassett was born on August 16, 1958, in New York City. She relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida as a child, with her single mom Betty, a social worker, and her sister D'nette. In 1974, after seeing James Earl Jones in a production of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men while on a high school trip, Bassett first contemplated acting as a career.
An exceptional student, she was encouraged by one of her teachers to apply for a university grant. She won a scholarship from Yale, where she would spend the better part of four years earning a B.A. in African-American studies before going on to receive a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1983.
Bassett found employment at the Hartford Stage Company prior to a move to New York in 1985. There, she made her debut on Broadway in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom before making her film debut in the 1985 made-for-TV movie Doubletake.
In 1986, she landed her first feature film role in cult favorite F/X. She kept busy with television work through the remainder of the '80s, landing parts in made-for-TV movies like Liberty (1986) and guest roles on A Man Called Hawk, Tour of Duty, 227, and thirtysomething. In 1988, she returned to the Broadway stage in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, just prior to relocating to Los Angeles.
Except for an uncredited part as a stewardess in Kindergarten Cop (1990), Bassett continued working on projects for the small screen during the early '90s. In 1990, she appeared in the TV movies Challenger, Family of Spies and Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer.
Her resume in 1991 included work in Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Heroes of Desert Storm and Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor, as well as a recurring role on the short-lived ABC comedy series STAT.
She made her first credited big-screen appearance playing Reva Devereaux in 1991's Boyz n the Hood and was featured in indie director John Sayles' City of Hope later that year. 1992 found Bassett in the horror flick Innocent Blood and co-starring in another Sayles' film, Passion Fish. That same year, she won critical notice for her portrayal of Betty Shabazz in Spike Lee's epic Malcolm X and rounded out the year playing mother Katherine in the TV mini-series The Jacksons: An American Dream.
1993 proved to be a breakthrough year for Bassett with her portrayal of music legend Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, as well as her first Oscar nomination.
After keeping a low profile through 1994, she returned in 1995 with roles in Strange Days, a sci-fi thriller, Waiting to Exhale, co-starring Whitney Houston, and Panther, in which she was again cast as Betty Shabazz in an uncredited cameo.
Bassett married Courtney B. Vance, whom she had known since her days at Yale, on October 12, 1997. She appeared with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in the 1997 sci-fi drama Contact and played title character Stella Payne in 1998's How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Next, she appeared with Meryl Streep in the biopic Music of the Heart (1999) and in the futuristic drama Supernova (2000). Because of her refusal to appear nude on-screen, Bassett passed on the part of Leticia Musgrove in 2001's Monster's Ball, the role that won Halle Berry an Oscar.
Bassett starred as Ruby Delacroix and produced the Showtime movie Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001). That same year, she played Robert De Niro's girlfriend in the caper flick The Score.
In 2002, Angela starred as Rosa McCauley Parks in the CBS TV movie The Rosa Parks Story, served as executive producer for TV's Our America, and reunited with director John Sayles for the drama Sunshine State.
2003 found Bassett back on the big screen in the feature Masked and Anonymous, and she appeared as herself on an episode of The Bernie Mac Show that aired that December. In 2004, she appeared opposite Mac in the baseball comedy Mr 3000.
She played a CIA Director on Alias in January 2005, and appears in the thriller Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and can also be seen in Akeelah and the Bee. |
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