Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress, well known for her biographical movies, most notably singer Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It, Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, Coretta Scott King in Betty and Coretta and Voletta Wallace in Notorious. Her other notable roles include in the films Akeelah and The Bee, The Score, Meet The Browns, Jumping The Broom, Music of The Heart, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and more recently in the horror anthology TV series American Horror Story, in the respective roles of Creole witch Marie Laveau, three-breasted woman Desiree Dupree and actress Ramona Royale. She appeared in The Quest for Beasts as Deanna Harris. Her film Waiting to Exhale is watched by Roger in the American Dad fanfic! Boys Will Be Girls. She made an appearance in The Danger Joe Show: New Adventures as Nadine and is also mentioned in the Family Guy fanfic Lois Griffin-BT by Glenn Quagmire.
Category:1950s births
Category:Actresses
Category:African Americans