Angela Bassett: podcast appearances and interviews

Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress with a career spanning from the 1980s to the present. She is recognized for her work in both film and television and has received numerous awards and nominations. Her notable achievements include winning an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine and received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett gained prominence for her portrayal of singer Tina Turner in the 1993 biopic What's Love Got to Do with It, which earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She also appeared in several successful films including Boyz n the Hood, Malcolm X, Strange Days, Vampire in Brooklyn, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Music of the Heart. Throughout the following decades, she took supporting roles in movies such as Notorious, Green Lantern, Olympus Has Fallen, and London Has Fallen. Bassett played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. For her role in the latter, she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she has starred as Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream and portrayed Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story, which earned her an Emmy nomination. She has also received Emmy nominations for her performances in American Horror Story and stars as Athena Grant in the series 9-1-1.