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Starring in big blockbusters from “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Bassett continues to show no sign of slowing down. Here, Bassett speaks onstage during a Q&A at the “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” Screening during the 2023 Tribeca Festival on June 17, 2023.
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Bassett arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
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Bassett arrives at the 95th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
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The actress was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
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Bassett arrives for the Time 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world on April 26, 2023.
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Bassett arrives at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023.
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Bassett rocks a yellow tulle mermaid-style dress to the 2023 SAG Awards.
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Bassett, winner of the Entertainer of the Year award and Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series award for “9-1-1,” poses in the press room during the 54th NAACP Image Awards on February 25, 2023.
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Bassett attends the BAFTA Film Awards 2023 in London on February 19, 2023.
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Bassett poses for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Feb. 13, 2023. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Bassett, Mel Brooks and film editor Carol Littleton will receive honorary Oscars the Governors Awards in November 2023.
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Bassett at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in January 2023.
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Bassett poses with the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture award for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
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Bassett as Queen Ramonda mourns her son King T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) death in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
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Bassett demands respect as Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
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Bassett and husband Courtney B. Vance attend Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever” Premiere at Dolby Theatre on October 26, 2022.
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Bassett wows in yellow at the 74th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, on September 12, 2022.
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Bassett attends the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Opening Gala on September 25, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.
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Bassett answers a question in the press room during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Oct. 30, 2021, in Cleveland.
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Bassett waves to cameras on the red carpet at the 2021 Oscar Awards.
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Bassett flashes a sly smile at the FOX Winter TCA All Star Party on Jan. 7, 2020.
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Here she is flashing curls and confidence at the Fox Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park in New York City on May 13, 2019.
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Bassett was born in New York City but raised with her sister in St. Petersburg, Fla., by her mother, Betty Jane Bassett, a social worker.
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On the move! Bassett attends the Global Premiere of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” at Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.
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“Mission: Impossible – Fallout” cast members Alix Benezech, left, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby attend the Global Premiere in Paris.
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Bassett plays Erica Sloan in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”
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Angela Bassett celebrates Tom Cruise at the 2018 Will Rogers ‘Pioneer of the Year’ Dinner Honoring Tom Cruise during CinemaCon, in Las Vegas.
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Taraji P. Henson, left, and Angela Bassett attend the CinemaCon 2018 Paramount Pictures Presentation Highlighting Its Summer of 2018 and Beyond.
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Angela Basset plays the Queen Mother Ramonda, and Letitia Wright plays her daughter Shuri in the blockbuster “Black Panther.”
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T’Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Ramonda (Angela Bassett) in “Black Panther.”
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Angela Bassett works the fringe at the “Black Panther” premiere.
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Bassett, who earns both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale University, lines up at Yale University for the 2018 commencement, where she received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
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Bassett gains control of guest star John Hensley in the season finale episode of “9-1-1.”
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Bassett stars in the series premiere episode of “9-1-1.”
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Bassett poses with her “9-1-1” cast members Peter Krause, Connie Britton, Oliver Stark, and Aisha Hinds at the FYC event in June 2018.
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Bassett works another fringy ensemble at the Gersh Oscar Party at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
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Bassett attends the premiere of Disney and Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” in Los Angeles.
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Bassett strikes her pose with hubby Courtney B. Vance at the “Avengers: Infinity War” premiere arrivals carpet.
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Bassett arrive shares a big laugh with Anthony Anderson at the world premiere of “A Wrinkle in Time.”
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Bassett is hot in pink on the 74th Golden Globe Awards red carpet.
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Vance and Bassett pose at 2017 Golden Globe Awards. The couple met while studying at Yale University and were married in 1997. They have two children.
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Bassett serves as the director of “Whitney” on the set of the Lifetime Original Movie.
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Bassett was all smiles at the “Whitney” premiere.
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Bassett gets close with Cicely Tyson at the Tony Awards backstage at Radio City Music Hall.
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Active politically, Bassett talks to students at South Carolina State University while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Feb. 9, 2016, in Orangeburg, S.C.
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Bassett is brilliant in canary yellow at the Fox Emmy Awards after party in 2016. The actress was nominated in 2015 and 2014 for an Emmy Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for her work on “American Horror Story.”
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“American Horror Story: Coven” cast members Kathy Bates and Bassett share a laugh onstage during the FX 2013 Summer TCA press tour.
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Bassett is Marie Laveau in the “American Horror Story: Coven” Episode 301.
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Bassett is the oddly-endowed Deiree Dupree on “America Horror Story: Freak Show.”
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Michael Chiklis and Bassett as Desiree Dupree in a scene from the television series “American Horror Story: Freak Show.”
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Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange and Bassett attend the premiere of FX’s “American Horror Story: Coven” after party in 2013.
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Bassett starred in “Jumping the Broom” with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, T.D. Jakes and Loretta Devine.
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Devine and Bassett are shown in a scene from “Jumping the Broom.”
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Bassett and Chaka Khan attend the 7th annual ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon in Beverly Hills.
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Jacob Latimore, left, as “Langston,” Angela Bassett as “Aretha Cobbs,” Jennifer Hudson as “Naima,” and Forest Whitaker as “Reverend Cornell Cobbs,” in a scene from the motion picture “Black Nativity.”
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Bassett strikes her pose at the “Black Nativity” premiere red carpet at the Apollo Theater.
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Bassett and her children Slater Vance and Bronwyn Vance attend CARRY Foundation’s 7th “Shall We Dance” Gala in 2013.
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Bassett starred as Doctor Waller alongside Tim Robbins and Peter Sarsgaard in the motion picture “Green Lantern.”
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The actress is known for her portrayals of real-life figures. Here, Bassett plays Coretta Scott King, and Mary J. Blige plays Betty Shabazz in the Lifetime Original Movie “Betty Coretta.” Bassett received the Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for her role.
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Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson pose for a portrait in New York, while rehearsing for their roles in the Broadway production “Mountaintop” on Sept. 9, 2011.
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Bassett turned heads playing a mysterious motel maid who delivers coffee to civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Bassett and Terrence Howard are seen at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards in 2011.
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Lisa’s classmates ostracize her for being an overachiever, but the First Lady Michelle Obama (guest voiced by Bassett) comes to her defense in the “Stealing First Base” episode of “The Simpsons.”
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Looking like a movie star, Bassett smiles during the ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 20, 2008.
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Courtney B. Vance and Bassett pose with their children at her star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
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The couple poses at their book signing “Friends: A Love Story” at Eso Wan Books on Feb. 20, 2007, in Los Angeles.
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Vance and Bassett perform in a scene from the theatrical stage production “His Girl Friday” at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, in 2005.
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Bassett as Dr. Cate Banfield in the television series “ER.”
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Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene, Yvette Freeman as Nurse Haleh Adams and Bassett as Dr. Cate Banfield are seen in the “Heal Thysel” episode of “ER.”
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“ER” alumni Bassett and Eriq La Salle hug it up at the Hollywood Bowl opening night celebration in 2013.
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Lance Gross and Bassett in a scene from the motion picture Tyler Perry’s “Meet the Browns.”
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Keke Palmer, Bassett, Sahara Garey and Lee Thompson Young in a scene from the motion picture “Akeelah and the Bee.”
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Bassett accepts the award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in “Sunshine State,” at the NAACP Image Awards, on March 8, 2003.
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“The Rosa Parks Story” television movie starring Bassett is based on the life of Rosa Parks, the “mother” of the modern civil rights movement. Bassett was nominated in 2002 for an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for her role.
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Bassett as Ruby Delacroix belts it out in Showtime’s “Ruby’s Bucket of Blood.” For her role she received the Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
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Alec Baldwin and Bassett take the stage in a scene from Macbeth at the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival’s Martinson Hall.
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Taye Diggs and Bassett stand close in the film “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”
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Angela Bassett, circa 1995.
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Bassett stars alongside Devine, Whitney Houston and Lela Rochon in “Waiting to Exhale.”
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Bassett plays Tina Turner in the motion picture “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” in 1993, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
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In an Academy Award-nominated performance, Bassett stars as Tina Turner, rock ‘n’ roll’s No. 1 female icon.
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Denzel Washington and Bassett play Malcolm X and his bride Betty Shabazz in the 1992 motion picture “Malcolm X.”
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