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 returned 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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Angela Bassett has played many powerful roles but her most powerful ones came from playing real life people, including Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz, in Malcolm X  and Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Angela Basset’s slayed pixie and burgundy lipstick are seriously giving us life. Fifty-four and still bad! She knows it… (Photo: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com)

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Angela Bassett poses for cameras at Lucky Guy Broadway opening night in a cute pixie and smoking merlot pout. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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