Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett is an honorary Oscar® recipient and Emmy® Award-winning actress, director, and executive producer known for captivating performances in iconic films such as “Malcolm X,” “Waiting to Exhale,” “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” “Black Panther,” “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” “Damsel” and “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” for which she received an Academy Award® nomination.
Bassett returned as the beloved Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” receiving Golden Globe® and Critics Choice awards, with Academy Award, SAG and BAFTA nominations, as well as the Variety Creative Impact in Acting Award.
She is the star and executive producer of the hit drama “9-1-1” and earned her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for the critically acclaimed NatGeo docu-series “Queens.” Bassett reunited with Robert De Niro in the Netflix limited series “Zero Day” and with Tom Cruise in the box office fan-favorite “Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning.”
Bassett has been named one of the Time 100 and Time Women of the Year, has earned multiple Emmy nominations, and is the recipient of a SAG Award, 16 NAACP Image Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, the Black Girls Rock! Icon Award, Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema & Television Career Achievement Award, an AAFCA TV Honor, and Glamour’s Women of the Year Award. She was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for her directorial debut of the Whitney Houston biopic “Whitney.” Basett was named a Disney Legend for her countless contributions to the brand’s vast legacy of movies, television and its theme parks.
Bassett Vance Productions, established by Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, is in partnership with 20th Television to develop and executive produce comedy, drama, limited series and TV movies for linear networks and streamers, with an emphasis on platforms across Disney Entertainment Television.
Bassett graduated with a B.A. in African American studies, an M.F.A. in drama, and an honorary doctorate from Yale University. She also has honorary doctorates from Morehouse College and Old
Dominion University.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN: New York, New York
BIRTHDATE: August 16
