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. Read Full Biography
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Green Lantern
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I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
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Jumping The Broom
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This Means War
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
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Notorious
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Gospel Hill
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Nothing but the Truth
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Of Boys and Men
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Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
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Meet the Robinsons
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Akeelah and the Bee
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Innocent Blood
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Mr. 3000
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The Lazarus Child
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F/X
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Masked and Anonymous
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Our America
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Sunshine State
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The Rosa Parks Story
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Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood
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Score
| Year | Award | Category | Movie | Result |
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| 2006 | Black Reel Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Akeelah and the Bee | Nominated |
| 2001 | Screen Actors Guild | Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Nominated |
| 1993 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Best Actress | What's Love Got To Do With It | Nominated |
| 1993 | Hollywood Foreign Press Association | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy | What's Love Got To Do With It | Won |
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Angela Bassett's Surprising 'Olympus' Reveal
by Kelly WooMen, step aside. Angela Bassett is ready, willing, and able to take charge. In “Olympus Has Fallen,” her Secret Service director, Lynne Jacobs...
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