Angela Bassett is an Honorary Oscar recipient, Emmy Award-winning actress, director, and executive producer known for her powerful performances in both film and television. She has starred in iconic films such as Malcolm X, What’s Love Got to Do with It (Academy Award nomination), Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Black Panther, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

Angela reprised her role as Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, earning a Golden Globe Award, Critics Choice Award, and nominations from the Academy Awards, SAG, and BAFTA. She also received the Variety Creative Impact in Acting Award.

She is the star and executive producer of the ABC/Disney drama 9-1-1 and earned her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for NatGeo’s Queens. Her recent work includes the Netflix series Zero Day and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Angela has been recognized as one of Time 100 and Time Women of the Year and is the recipient of multiple accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, a SAG Award, 16 NAACP Image Awards, and the Directors Guild of America nomination for her directorial debut Whitney.

Through Bassett Vance Productions, which she co-founded with her husband Courtney B. Vance, Angela develops and executive produces content in partnership with 20th Television. Their projects include One Thousand Years of Slavery (Smithsonian Channel) and Heist 88 (Showtime), the latter of which earned multiple NAACP Image Award nominations.