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Angela Bassett smiles at the camera, wearing a black blazer and large hoop earrings, with short, wavy hair and subtle makeup. KeKe Palmer and Angela Bassett sit together on a couch, smiling and talking, in a scene from the film Akeelah and the Bee. Palmer holds papers while Bassett holds a yellow envelope. Angela Bassett, dressed as a police sergeant, stands alert in uniform on a city street with two people and emergency vehicles in the background in a scene from 9-1-1.
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Angela Bassett

American actress
Also known as: Angela Evelyn Bassett
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Angela Bassett (born August 16, 1958, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American actress best known for portraying Black women who made history, including singer Tina Turner and civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Betty Shabazz, the wife of African American leader Malcolm X. Bassett was born in New York, New York, and raised by an aunt in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When Bassett was about five, she and her sister moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to...

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