American actress
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress and activist. She is known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a corresponding Golden Globe Award. Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995), Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Voletta Wallace in Notorious (2009), and Coretta Scott King in Betty & Coretta (2013). Her other roles include Amanda Waller in Green Lantern (2011), Lynne Jacobs in Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016), and Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther (2018).
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