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Angela Bassett Wiki Biography

Actress and director Angela Evelyn Bassett Vance was born on 16 August 1958, in New York City USA, and is probably best known for her roles in such films as “The Score”, “Jumping the Broom”, “Music of the Heart” and “Meet the Browns” . During her career Angela has been nominated for and has won such awards as an Academy, Black Reel, BET, MTV Movie and Golden Globe Awards, among many others. Recently she has been working on the shows “American Horror Story: Coven” and “Freak Show”.

So how rich is Angela Bassett? It is estimated by authoritative sources that Angela’s net worth is over $25 million, with movies and television shows being the main sources of Bassett’s wealth, accumulated during a career which began in the mid-’80s.

Angela’s parents divorced, and she moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she and her sister D’nette were raised by their social worker/civil servant mother. After  Jordan Park Elementary School, she was bused to attend Disston Middle School and then to Azalea Middle School as part of the integration program, before attending Boca Ciega High School After matriculating, Angela studied at Yale University and later at the Yale School of Drama. Basset then worked in a beauty salon, but soon started working in theater in various plays, including “Black Girl”, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” among others, which were the basis for Angela’s net worth.

In 1986 Angela appeared in the movie called “F/X”, and in the same dcade she was acclaimed for her roles in such movies as “Malcolm X”, and “Boyz ‘n the Hood”, which had a huge impact on the growth of her net worth. In 1992 she portrayed Katherine Jackson in the movie, “The Jacksons: An American Dream”, and was then cast as Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, which made her even more popular and acclaimed in the industry, not to mention the fact that it added a lot to Bassett’s net worth. After that she appeared in many more movies and television shows, the most notable being as  Rosa Parks in “The Rosa Parks Story” (2002), Voletta Wallace in “Notorious” (2009) and Coretta Scott King in “Betty & Coretta” (2013), which all became successful and assisted Angela to became popular all over the world.

In 2014 she announced that she would also debut as a film director, and subsequently directed the film “Whitney”, a biopic of the singer Whitney Houston. Most recently, Angela has returned to appear in the TV series “Freak Show”, “Hotel” and Roanoke” to generally positive reactions. Angela has now appeared in over 50 films, and been involved in almost the same number of TV productions

In Angela’s personal life, she has been married to Courtney B. Vance since 1997, and the couple has twins born in 2006.

Bassett participates in many charity events and supports charity campaigns. She was also a keen supporter of Barack Obama during his presidential campaigns and his time in office.

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Angela Bassett Quick Info

Angela Bassett Quotes

• I am content that the work that I’ve done is wonderful.
• I guess I’m breaking out a little of what’s comfortable and easy.
• I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
• I’m thinking about directing, but I know it’s a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
• My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she’d always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don’t see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
• I can give you the King’s English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don’t do one knowing only the street. That’s going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.
• The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that’s happened. But I didn’t become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
• Film is forever.
• The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
• Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.
• When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school.
• God made a way out of no way.
• I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
• This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.
• I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don’t have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

Angela Bassett Important Facts

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• Her mother, Betty (Gilbert) Bassett, passed away on June 22nd, 2014.
• Born on the exact same day as Madonna.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina: Is a member of the international jury at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. [April 2010]
• Lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband Courtney B. Vance and their children.
• Was initiated as an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. on July 13, 2013.
• Is a vegetarian.
• She was mentioned in the comedy drama film A Christmas Tale (2008).
• Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in March 20, 2008.
• Is one of 10 African-American actresses to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. The others in chronological order are: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe, Viola Davis and Quvenzhané Wallis.
• Was considered for the role of Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990) but Whoopi Goldberg, who went on to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.
• Bassett’s line “Right here! Right now!” from Strange Days (1995) was sampled as the only ‘lyrics’ used repeatedly in the song “Right Here, Right Now” by Fatboy Slim, his best known song.
• In 1993, she and Jenifer Lewis played daughter and mother in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), which earned her an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Nearly fifteen years later, they both teamed up with Oscar nominee Margaret Avery in Meet the Browns (2008), in which Bassett and Lewis played sisters.
• Her performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) (1993) was ranked at #95 on Premiere Magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Film Performances of all time.
• Angela and her husband, Courtney B. Vance, became the parents of twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, on January 27, 2006 in California through a surrogate.
• Received her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama (1983).
• Received her Bachelor’s degree in African-American studies from Yale University (1980).
• As of 2005, she is the first and only African-American recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993).
• Attended and graduated from Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport, Florida in 1976.
• Has played Muslim activist Betty Shabazz in two different movies: Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995).
• Won the 2002 Lena Horne Award for Outstanding Career Achievements in the Field of Entertainment.
• Was offered the role of Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball (2001), but she turned it down as she did not want to perform nude. As a result Halle Berry, who went on to become the first African-American actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.
• In 1974, she began to consider acting as a career choice after an 11th-grade class trip to Washington, D.C. during which she saw actor James Earl Jones perform in a Kennedy Center production of the play “Of Mice and Men”.
• She was once employed as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.
• Bassett has built her career around playing some of the most celebrated real-life, pioneering black women of the twentieth century. She was Oscar-nominated and won both the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture for her star-making performance as Tina Turner/Anna Mae Bullock in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993). She won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work as the late-Dr. Betty Shabazz (widow of the slain civil rights pioneer Malcolm X) in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992). She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in Mario Van Peebles’ Panther (1995). She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). In 1999, she played Janet Williams–the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in Music of the Heart (1999). She was also in the running to play Dorothy Dandridge, until Halle Berry beat her to the punch with HBO’s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). Her first and only Emmy nomination to date was for her lead role in The Rosa Parks Story (2002).
• Engaged to Courtney B. Vance. [1997]

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