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1993:
NAACP IMAGE Award: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, What's Love Got to Do With It.
GOLDEN GLOBE Awards: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), What's Love Got to Do With It.
1996:
National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters: Ouibeer Award for Entertainer of the Year Award
NAACP IMAGE Award: Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture; Waiting to Exhale
Women in Film : Crystal Award
1998:
NAACP IMAGE Award: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, How Stella Got Her Groove Back
2000 - Supernova
1999 - Music of the Heart
1998 - How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1997 - Contact
1995 - Waiting to Exhale
1995 - Partner
1995 - Strange Days
1995 - Vampire in Brooklyn
1993 - What's Love Got to Do With It
1992 - Innocent Blood
1992 - Passion Fish
1992 - Malcolm X
1991 - Critters 4
1991 - Locked Up A Mother's Rage
1991 - Boyz N' The Hood
1991 - City of Hope
1990 - Kindergarten Cop
1986 - F/X
Television
1994 - A Century of Women (Voice Only)
1994 - Line of Fire : The Morris Dees Story
1992 - The Jacksons : An American Dream
1991 - Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
1991 - Heroes of Desert Storm
1991 - One Special Victory
1991 - STAT (two episodes)
1990 - Challenger, In the Best Interests of the Child
1990 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1989 - A man Called Hawk
1989 - Tour of Duty
1985 - Doubletake
1985 - Guiding Light
1985 - Spenser : For Hire
227
Alien Nation
Cosby Show
Equal Justice
Family Spies
FLASH
My Man Bovanne
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Biography
Angela Bassett - Vance was born August 16, 1958 in Hew York
New York and raised in St. Peteresburg, Florida. Her first
realization that she wanted to become an actress was at performance, Of
Mice and Men , starring James Earl Jones at the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C. Angela at that moment decided she would pursue
acting as a career. She would star in every school and church plays.
Angela tackled acting so that by time she graduated she was well-versed
enought to go to Yale University where she would pursue and graduate
with a B.A. degree in Drama as well as her Master's degree as well.
While at Yale Angela would study under the accomplished director Lloyd
Despite her success on stage Angela's greatest struggle would come when
Angela would gon to portray the powerful Betty Shabazz in Malcolm
In 1996 Angela married the man she met and fell in love with, fellow actor
Richards and established herself as an incredibly powerful stage actress.
Starring in two (Tony Award winner) August Wilson's plays, Ma
Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
she tried to break into acting in films. Hollywood was all to swift to cast
her as a hooker or best friend to her white counterparts, as the film
Doubletakes, where she plays a hooker. But Angela continued to make a
name for herself in such films as Boyz N' the Hood which was the best
breakthrough performance for herself and all of her castmates. Both she
and Laurence Fishburne would later be Academy-nominated in the Best
Actor and Best Actress. While Nia Long has continue to portray
strong characters as well as Morris Chestnut and Ice Cube. Cuba
Gooding Jr. has womn an Academy Award for best Supporting Actor
and continues to portray powerful characters.
X opposite Academy winner Denzel Washington and bring to life two
Terry McMillian films Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her
Groove Back.
Courtney B. Vance and she's primed to continue her great acting in her
soom bto be release film Wings Against the Wind, a biopic on the late
Bess Coleman a black female piolet. Angela continues to inspire many
and some days we can only hope she will become the first Academy winner
for Best Actress.
