Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. She has become well-known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, including singer Tina Turner in the motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as Betty Shabazz in the films Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in the The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream and Voletta Wallace in the film Notorious...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: Commando, The Color Purple, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Quest for Fire and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Credits include: Accepted, Dirty Deeds, Life with Bonnie, Laura Smiles and Pistol Pete

Credits include: Mr. Brooks, Assault on Precinct 13, Beyond the Lights, 9-1-1 and The American Society of Magical Negroes

Credits include: Bright, Red Dawn, Hotel Artemis, American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson and 9-1-1

Credits include: Blackout, Guest House, 1313: Night of the Widow, Anabolic Life and Dreamcatcher

Credits include: The Unit, Playdate, JL Family Ranch 2, Missing While Interracial and Point of Origin

Credits include: Chicago Fire, The 10 Year Plan, Island Zero, Black Site Delta and Chicago Fire: Pilot

Credits include: The Fare, First Shift, Hidden in Plain Sight and Hen Begins

Credits include: We the Coyotes and Hen Begins

Credits include: Get Big and Hen Begins