Angela Bassett

Highest Rated:
100% Passion Fish (1992)
Lowest Rated:
10% Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Birthday:
Aug 16, 1958
Birthplace:
New York, New York, USA
Bio:
A respected actress of the stage, screen, and television, Angela Bassett has been one of the few African-American actresses to break Hollywood's color boundary. She has specialized in playing strong women familiar with adversity and has worked in genres from "chick flick" (Waiting to Exhale) to…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 10% - 100%
Number of Movies: 57
Box Office Since 2001: $841.6M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 48% Olympus Has Fallen
  • Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs
$95.4M
2013 Betty and Coretta
  • Actor
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2013 Black Nativity
  • Aretha Cobbs
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2012 26% This Means War
  • Collins
$54.8M
2011 26% Green Lantern
  • Dr. Amanda Waller
$116.6M
2011 55% Jumping the Broom
  • Mrs. Watson
$37.3M
2011 Green Lantern (Extended Cut)
  • Actor
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2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
  • Actor
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2010 VIPs
  • Actor
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2009 33% Gospel Hill
  • Sarah Malcolm
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2009 51% Notorious
  • Voletta Wallace
$36.7M
2009 Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
  • Narrator
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2008 32% Meet The Browns
  • Brenda
$41.9M
2008 80% Nothing But the Truth
  • Bonnie Benjamin
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2007 26% Stomp the Yard
  • Actor
$61.4M
2007 66% Meet the Robinsons
  • Mildred
$97.7M
2007 Of Boys and Men
  • Actor
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2006 Time Bomb
  • Actor
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2006 84% Akeelah and the Bee
  • Tanya
$18.8M
2005 59% Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • Actor
$186.1M
2004 56% Mr. 3000
  • Mo Simmons
$21.8M
2004 The Lazarus Child
  • Actor
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2003 24% Masked And Anonymous
  • Mistress
$0.1M
2002 The Rosa Parks Story
  • Rosa Parks
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2002 Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives
  • Actor
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2002 80% Sunshine State
  • Desiree Perry
$2.8M
2002 Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives
  • Actor
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2001 Ruby's Bucket of Blood
  • Actor
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2001 73% The Score
  • Diane
$70.3M
2000 50% Boesman & Lena
  • Lena
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2000 Whispers - An Elephant's Tale
  • Groove
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2000 10% Supernova
  • Kaela Evers
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1999 Our Friend, Martin
  • Actor
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1999 63% Music of the Heart
  • Janet Williams
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1998 48% How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  • Stella
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1998 Africans in America
  • Actor
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1998 Africans in America - Part 2 - Revolution
  • Narrator
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1998 Africans in America - Part 4: Judgment Day
  • Narrator
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1997 63% Contact
  • Rachel Constantine
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1995 10% Vampire in Brooklyn
  • Rita
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1995 52% Waiting to Exhale
  • Bernadine Harris
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1995 27% Panther
  • Betty Shabazz
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1995 63% Strange Days
  • Lornette "Mace" Mason
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1993 97% What's Love Got To Do With It?
  • Tina Turner
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1992 38% Innocent Blood
  • US Attorney Sinclair
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1992 100% Passion Fish
  • Dawn/Rhonda
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1992 91% Malcolm X
  • Betty Shabazz
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1992 The Jacksons: An American Dream
  • Katherine Jackson
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1991 Critters 4 - They're Invading Your Space
  • Fran
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1991 96% Boyz n the Hood
  • Reva Styles
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1991 Heroes of Desert Storm
  • Lt. Jeter
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1991 Locked Up: A Mother's Rage (Other Side of Love)
  • Willie
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1991 94% City of Hope
  • Reesha
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1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
  • Carla Peters
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1990 Challenger
  • Cheryl McNair
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1990 50% Kindergarten Cop
  • Stewardess
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1986 85% F/X
  • TV Reporter
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Quotes from Angela Bassett's Characters

    1. Mike Banning: Hashtag? What the fuck is that?
    2. Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs: Shift 3! Shift 3!
    From Olympus Has Fallen. Submitted by Matt F (43 days ago)
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