Angela Bassett

Actress
Harlem-born Angela Bassett began her career acting in August Wilson’s regional theater productions. She is best known for her strong matriarchal roles in Boyz N The Hood (1991), Malcolm X and the TV movie The Jacksons: an American Dream (both 1992). In 1993, she starred as Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It, and became the first African American woman to win a Best Actress Golden Globe Award in a Musical or Comedy. In 2011, Bassett returns to the small screen in ABC’s One Police Plaza. She is married to actor Courtney B Vance. The couple have two children.

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With recent credits including films Jumping the Broom and Green Lantern and her acclaimed role in the Broadway play The Mountaintop, the legendary Angela Bassett is up for Best Actress at the BET Awards. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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