WCE: Angela Basset
Fri 23 Feb 2018, 10:09
Can you believe Angela Basset is turning 60 years old this year. Here are some of the roles that make her our #WCE.
Watch Angela Basset in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) which is a biopic about Tina Turner's life on Saturday 24 February at 20:00 on BET. Also available on DStv Now.
Did you know?
She won a Golden Globe for it, for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture in 1994.
What’s Love Got to Do with It plot
Born Anna Mae Bullock, she sought fame and fortune in St Louis, where she met the man who would make her – and try to break her – the dangerously charismatic Ike Turner.
Angela Basset films and series
Angela Basset has appeared in many movies like Rosa Parks, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Jumping the Broom, Notorious as The Notorious B.I.G.’s mom and more recently Black Panther. She stars as Queen Ramonda who is the mother of T’Challa the Black Panther.
If you haven't seen #BlackPanther yet, make your way to the cinema today! US actress Angela Bassett stars as Queen Ramonda in the film with an all-star cast featuring John Kani, @Lupita_Nyongo, Michael B. Jordan and @chadwickboseman #BlackPantherChallenge pic.twitter.com/wuxes3gtL6
— MentorFeed (@MentorFeed) February 18, 2018
We don't speak enough about Angela Bassett's beauty. She's absolutely stunning in Black Panther. @ImAngelaBassett #blackpanther pic.twitter.com/96iA55pQV9
— Ludovic (@LudoHbg) February 21, 2018
Angela Basset has also been on the American Horror Story: Coven series as the voodoo queen Marie Laveau. She earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for this role.
Here are some of the looks Angela Bassett wore as Marie Laveau in American Horror Story: Coven. #hbcumcc pic.twitter.com/QDeawna1IA
— T E X T U R E S Lab (@TexturesMCLab) February 23, 2018
Personal Life
Angela Basset is married to Courtney B Vance since 1997.
"Check the mirror, we're lookin' fly!"#EmmyparTAY! pic.twitter.com/BJCuLFnhnq
— Courtney B. Vance (@CourtneyBVance) September 16, 2017
They have 12 year-old twins Josiah and Bronwyn.
Hey Everybody you good? What did you think? More importantly- SHOW ME WHAT YOUR WORE! #blackpanthershowingout pic.twitter.com/DL081U6vQd
— Angela Bassett (@ImAngelaBassett) February 17, 2018
Just like this fan, we also think Angela has done great roles but is yet to receive an Oscar:
So y’all mean to tell me Angela Bassett done played Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Tina Turner, Betty Shabazz, Biggie Mama, done got her Groove Back, Burned her cheatin husband clothes, and gave birth to the King of Wakanda and y’all STILL ain’t gave Auntie no Oscar??!? pic.twitter.com/KftyOJh3Oa
— IG: AYANATHEDIVA (@AyanaTheDIVA) February 20, 2018
