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: Friday Night Lights, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Promising Young Woman, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and A Nightmare on Elm Street

Credits include: Six Feet Under, The Lost Room, Beastly, We Don't Live Here Anymore and Parenthood

Credits include: The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, Looper, Rent and Love

Credits include: The Proposal, The Lost City, Disenchanted, Fred: The Movie and Miss Stevens

Credits include: Encino Man, Marnie, Ride the High Country, Marooned and 1969

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

Credits include: Mona Lisa Smile, Old Dogs, The Tale, Clown and Terriers

Credits include: San Junipero, Skybound, Allegiance, Kung Fu and Pooka Lives!

Credits include: Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club, Dusty, Cass, Jacob and Cupid for Christmas

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

Credits include: Underworld: Blood Wars, Into the Badlands, 9-1-1, MindGamers and 9-1-1: Pilot