Emmy Award–winning actress, director, and producer Angela Bassett will be honored by the American Black Film Festival. Bassett’s career spans decades of iconic powerful performances that include her portrayal of Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a film which earned her an Academy Award nomination.
In 2023, she became the first person to receive an Academy Award nomination for an acting role in a Marvel film for her performance as Queen Ramonda in ” Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and has starred in films that include “Malcolm X,” “Waiting to Exhale,” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”
With a B.A. in African American studies, an M.F.A. in drama, and an honorary doctorate from Yale University, she also stars in and executive produces the drama “9-1-1” and won her first Emmy for Outstanding Narrator for the NatGeo docu-series “Queens.”
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
