ANGELA BASSETT is an Honorary Oscar recipient and Emmy Award-winning actress, director, and executive producer known for captivating performances in iconic films such as MALCOLM X, WAITING TO EXHALE, HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK, BLACK PANTHER, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT, DAMSEL, and of course, WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
Angela returned as the beloved Queen Ramonda in BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, receiving Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards, with Academy Award, SAG and BAFTA nominations, as well as the Variety Creative Impact in Acting Award.
She is the star and executive producer of the ABC/Disney hit drama 9-1-1 and earned her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for the critically acclaimed NatGeo docu-series QUEENS. Angela reunited with Robert De Niro in the Netflix limited series ZERO DAY and with Tom Cruise in the box office fan-favorite MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-THE FINAL RECKONING.
Angela has been named one of the Time 100 and Time Women of the Year, has earned multiple EMMY nominations, and is the recipient of a SAG Award, 16 NAACP Image Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, the Black Girls Rock! Icon Award, Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema & Television Career Achievement Award, an AAFCA TV Honor, and Glamour’s Women of the Year Award. She was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for her directorial debut of the Whitney Houston biopic WHITNEY. Angela was named a Disney Legend for her countless contributions to the brand’s vast legacy of movies, television and its theme parks.
Bassett Vance Productions, established by Angela and Courtney B. Vance, is in partnership with 20th Television to develop and executive produce comedy, drama, limited series, and TV movies for linear networks and streamers, with an emphasis on platforms across Disney Entertainment Television. Their previous projects include ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF SLAVERY, which aired on the Smithsonian Channel, and HEIST 88, a feature film starring Vance, which aired on Showtime Networks. The film received three NAACP Image Award nominations, winning one for Outstanding Writing.
