Angela Bassett Bio, Age, Husband, Kids, Net Worth, Movies 2025 & Wiki

About Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett is an American actress renowned for her portrayals in biographical productions like ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ and ‘The Rosa Parks Story.’ She has performed on a variety of projects in her noble career traversing over three decades. After Working in a dance group as a child, she invented her love for acting during a field expedition to Washington D.C. in her 11th grade where she saw actor James Earl Jones execute in a ‘Kennedy Center’ production of the play ‘Of Mice and Men.’ Before getting into acting, she shortly worked as a receptionist at a beauty salon and as a photo analyst for ‘U.S. News & World Report’ magazine.

She then showed her acting talent as a theatre actor and went on to feature in a number of movies and television shows. Some of her preeminent films include ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘Panther,’ ‘Waiting to Exhale,’ ‘Akeelah and the Bee,’ ‘Green Lantern,’ ‘Black Nativity,’ ‘London Has Fallen,’ ‘Black Panther,’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ She has also emerged in television series, such as ‘ER’ and ‘American Horror Story.’

Bio/Wiki

Birth Name	Angela Evelyn Bassett
Nick Name	Angela
Age	(as in 2022) 64 years
Religion	Christianity
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Leo
Birth Place	New York City, New York, United States
Date of Birth	16 August 1958 ((wikipedia))
Nationality	American
Residence	Los Angeles, California, United States
Home Town	New York
Hobbies	Singing

Physical  Stats

Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 163 cm in meters- 1.63 m in feet inches- 5’4”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 61 kg in pounds- 134 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	34 Inches
Hips Size	37 Inches
Waist Size	25 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	Black
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Dark Brown
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	4 (U.S.)
Shoe Size	7 (U.S.)

Family

Mother’s Name	Betty Jane (née Gilbert) (Social Worker) (Died in 2014)
Father’s Name	Daniel Benjamin Bassett
Brother	None
Sister	D’nette Bassett (Younger)
Others	• Daniel Benjamin Bassett Sr. (Paternal Grandfather) • Brownie Younger (Paternal Grandmother) • Leroy Gilbert (Maternal Grandfather) • Emma Jean Stokes (Maternal Grandmother) • Leslie Anita Daniels (Mother-In-Law) (Librarian) • Conroy Vance (Father-In-Law) (Grocery Store Manager and Benefits Administrator) • Jean Bassett (Older Step-Sister)

Husband/Spouse	Courtney B. Vance (1997-Present)
Marriage Date	12 October 1997
Children	Daughter- Bronwyn Golden Vance Son- Slater Josiah Vance (Twins b. January 27, 2006)

Personal Life

School	• Jordan Park Elementary School • Disston Middle School • Azalea Middle School • Boca Ciega High School
College/University	• Yale University
Educational Qualification	• Bachelor’s degree in African-American studies • Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama
Profession	Actress, Social Activist
Brands Endorsed	• Airbnb (2015) • Boehringer Ingelheim (2018) • National Urban League (2012) • Olay
Career Manager	California-based William Morris Endeavor Entertainment

Awards

Awards	Year	Won/Nominated
Academy Awards
	1994	Nominated
BET Awards
	2001	Nominated
	2002	Nominated
	2007	Nominated
	2008	Nominated
	2009	Nominated
	2012	Nominated
	2013	Nominated
	2014	Nominated
	2018	Nominated
Black Reel Awards for Movies
	2000	Nominated
	2001	Nominated
	2002	Won
	2003	Won 2 Times
	2005	Nominated
	2007	Nominated
	2012	Nominated
	2014	Nominated
	2016	Nominated 3 Times
	2017	Nominated 2 Times
Black Reel Awards for Television
	2017	Nominated 2 Times
	2019	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
	1994	Nominated
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
	1994	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards
	2002	Nominated
	2014	Nominated
	2015	Nominated
	2017	Nominated
	2019	Nominated
Daytime Emmy Awards
	1996	Nominated
	2003	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
	1994	Won
Hollywood Walk of Fame
	2008	Inducted
Image Awards
	1995	Won 2 Times
	1996	Nominated
	1997	Nominated
	1999	Won
	2000	Won
	2001	Nominated
	2002	Won 2 Times
	2003	Won
	2005	Nominated
	2007	Nominated
	2009	1 Time Nominated and 1 Time Won
	2014	2 Times Nominated and 1 Time Won
	2015	Nominated
	2016	2 Times Nominated
MTV Movie Awards
	1994	Nominated
Saturn Awards
	1996	Won
Screen Actors Guild Award
	2002	Nominated
	2014	Nominated
	2019	Won

Relationship & more

Affairs/Boyfriends

Mark Jenkins

Favorite Things

Favorite Actors	Bernie Mac, Laurence Fishburne
Favorite Drinks	Vodka and lime juice
Favorite Exercise	Bicep curls
Favorite Clothing Brands	Givenchy, Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, BCBG Max Azria, Victoria Beckham
Favorite Shoe Brands	Jimmy Choo, Giuseppe Zanotti, Rene Caovilla
Controversies	None

Life Journey

Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958, in New York City, USA, to Daniel Benjamin Bassett and Betty Jane. Her father was an electrician and her mother worked as a nurse’s aide.

When she was only 10 months old, her parents delivered her to Winston-Salem to live with her father’s sister Aunt Golden. Her parents split soon after, and her mother took her and her younger sister D’nette to St. Petersburg, Florida, to live with her grandparents.

Angela would arrive at the church on Sundays and was part of the minority choir. She liked listening to popular ‘Motown’ blow on the radio, and her mother would often make her and her sister dance for the songs. Afterward, a lady in their neighborhood supported them in forming a dance group.

Her mother, who had slacked off in high school, didn’t want her children to suffer the same destiny and was extra watchful that they do well in school. Angela followed ‘Boca Ciega High School’ where she became a representative of the ‘Upward Bound’ program. She also became part of the deliberation team, student government, drama club, and choir.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in African-American studies from ‘Yale University’ in 1980. Three years later, she Derived a Master of Fine Arts degree from the ‘Yale School of Drama.’

Bassett is married to actor Courtney B. Vance. They wed on October 12, 1997. The couple welcomed twins in 2006. Son Slater and daughter Bronwyn were delivered by a surrogate. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband Courtney B. Vance and their children.

Money Factor

Angela Bassett has a net worth of $20 million.

Estimated Net Worth in 2022 (Approx)	$20 Million
Estimated Net Worth in 2021 (Approx)	Under Review
Annual Salary	Under Review
Income Source	Actress, Social Activist

After rising to the top in the 90s for her adorable depictions, Angela Bassett became know for portraying noticeable characters in African American culture.

After acting in more than 40 films, the actress is worth a pretty penny. According to WoodGram, Angela Bassett is worth about $20 million making her one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses of today.

 Movies And TV Shows

• Despite her early success on stage, Bassett had to work hard to break through the hackneyed roles generally authorized to African-American women on screen. Her first character was a bit part in the cult favorite, F/X (1986).
• In 1991, she had the main character in John Singleton’s seminal anti-gang film, Boyz ‘N the Hood.
• A year later, she settled the role of Katherine Jackson, mother of the Jackson Five singing group, in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992).
• Bassett continued taking on strong female characters by characterizing Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992), acting  in the title role. She turned in outstanding work in her breakthrough character as in What’s Love Got To Do With It? (1993), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
• Bassett co-starred with Whitney Houston in the variation of Terry McMillan’s Waiting To Exhale in 1995.
• In 1998 she headlined another McMillan variation, How Stella Got Her Groove Back. In Jodie Foster’s extraterrestrial-encounter film, Contact (1997), Bassett performed a top-level presidential advisor.
• Back on stage, Bassett performed Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, costarring Alec Baldwin, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York City in 1998.
• A versatile artist, Bassett has continued to tackle a varied mix of projects. She shared the stage with her husband Courtney B. Vance in an areal production of His Girl Friday in 2005. The pair also emerged together in the final season of the hit television drama ER from 2008 to 2009.
• On the big screen, Bassett acted in 2006’s Akeelah and the Bee with Keke Palmer and Laurence Fishburne. She performed the mother of an inner-city spelling whiz who tries for a national championship.
• Bassett went on to portray the mother of slain rapper Christopher “Biggie” Wallace in 2009’s biopic Notorious.
• In 2011, she materialized in several films, including the wedding comedy Jump the Broom and the comic book adaptation of Green Lantern.
• Bassett came back to Broadway in The Mountaintop, co-starring Samuel L. Jackson. She performed a maid who spends time with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. before his assassination.
• On the small screen, she performed King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, in the 2013 television movie Betty & Coretta, which co-starred Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz.
• That same year she acted as Secret Service director Lynn Jacobs in Olympus Has Fallen and in a film adaptation of Langston’s Hughes’ Black Nativity, which also starred Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson.
• Since then, Bassett has gone on to star in several TV shows and movies, including duties on American Horror Story, portraying Marian Laveau, the “Voodoo Queen of New Orleans” in the third season, Coven, which won her two Emmy nominations.
• Bassett earned another Emmy nomination for playing Desiree Dupree, a three-breasted lady, in the show’s fourth season, American Horror Story: Freak Show. She came back for the show’s fifth season, Hotel, portraying movie star Ramona Royale, and Monet Tumusiime, an alcoholic actress, in the sixth season, Roanoke.
• Some of Bassett’s contemporary film projects include: Chi-Raq (2015), London Has Fallen (2016), Black Panther (2018), and Mission Impossible — Fallout (2018).

Movies List
1986	F/X
1990	Kindergarten Cop
1991	Critters 4 Boyz n the Hood City of Hope
1992	Passion Fish Innocent Blood Malcolm X
1993	What’s Love Got to Do with It
1995	Panther Strange Days Vampire in Brooklyn Waiting to Exhale
1997	Contact
1998	How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1999	Our Friend, Martin Music of the Heart
2000	Supernova Whispers: An Elephant’s Tale Boesman and Lena
2001	The Score
2002	Sunshine State
2003	Unchained Memories Masked and Anonymous
2004	The Lazarus Child Mr. 3000
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2006	Akeelah and the Bee
2007	Meet the Robinsons
2008	Gospel Hill Of Boys and Men Meet the Browns Nothing But the Truth
2009	Notorious
2011	Jumping the Broom Green Lantern
2012	This Means War I Ain’t Scared of You
2013	Olympus Has Fallen Black Nativity
2014	White Bird in a Blizzard
2015	Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle Survivor Chi-Raq
2016	London Has Fallen
2018	Black Panther Mission: Impossible – Fallout Bumblebee
2019	Avengers: Endgame Otherhood
2020	Soul
Yet To Be Release	Gunpowder Milkshake
TV Films List
1985	Doubletake
1986	Liberty
1990	Challenger In the Best Interest of the Child Perry Mason: In the Case of the Silenced Singer
1991	Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story The Heroes of Desert Storm Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (aka The Other Side of Love) One Special Victory Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor
2001	Ruby’s Bucket of Blood
2002	The Rosa Parks Story
2006	Time Bomb
2011	Identity
2012	Rogue
2013	Betty & Coretta
TV Shows & Serials List
1985	Search for Tomorrow Spenser: For Hire The Cosby Show
1987	Ryan’s Hope
1988	The Cosby Show
1989	HeartBeat A Man Called Hawk Tour of Duty 227 Thirtysomething
1990	Alien Nation Equal Justice Family of Spies
1991	The Flash Stat
1992	Nightmare Cafe The Jacksons: An American Dream
1995	Get Smart
2003	Freedom: A History of Us The Bernie Mac Show
2005	Alias
2008–09	ER
2010	The Simpsons
2013–14	American Horror Story: Coven
2014–15	American Horror Story: Freak Show
2015–18	BoJack Horseman
2015–16	American Horror Story: Hotel
2016	American Horror Story: Roanoke Close to the Enemy
2017	Underground Master of None
2018–present	09-01-01
2018	American Horror Story: Apocalypse
2019	A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019–present	The Imagineering Story ((IMDB))

Some unknown facts about

1. Angela introduced her middle name from her aunt Evelyn. Furthermore, her surname originates from her paternal great-grandfather William Henry Bassett. Probably, he took the name from his former oppressor whose children later became the creators of the place called Bassett in Virginia.
2. One of her earlier jobs included working as a photo researcher at U.S. News & World Report magazine.
3. She also pursued as a receptionist at a beauty salon after graduating from Yale.
4. Angela unearthed her sentiment for acting at the age of 16 when her 11th-grade class trip visited Washington D.C in 1974. She looked actor James Earl Jones perform in a Kennedy Center production of the play Of Mice and Men and was so fascinated that she decided to make acting her career of choice.
5. While studying at Boca Ciega High School, she concluded the feat of being the first African American student from the school to perform in the Upward Bound – an academic and cultural enrichment program for handicapped kids at the National Honor Society (NHS).
6. Angela was born on the same day as that of pop phenomenon Madonna – August 16, 1958.
7. On July 13, 2013, she was introduced as an honorary member of the college-educated women’s sorority group Delta Sigma Theta.
8. Angela has disclosed to be a huge fan of The Jackson 5 during her formative years. She further added that she dreamt of marrying the member with the ‘cutest and roundest Afro’ from the musical family group.
9. On March 20, 2008, she became one of the many actors to get her own star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star shines at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
10. Angela is one of the only 10 African-American actresses to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category since its inception in 1929. She was nominated for her role in What’s Love Got to Do with it in 1994.
11. Her path-breaking performance as  in the 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do with it made into the list of Premiere Magazine’s List of 100 Greatest Film Performances of all time at the 95th spot.
12. As of July 2018, she is the only African-American recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her portrayal of singer  in What’s Love Got to Do with it (1993).
13. She turned down the role of Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball (2001) because she was not comfortable with the role’s requirement for nudity. The role was eventually played by  who became the first African-American actress to win the Best Actress Oscar in its history.
14. Angela earned an honorary doctoral degree from her alma-mater Yale University in fine arts in 2018.
15. Her 1995 film Strange Days had her speaking the line “this is your life, right here, right now!”. Her voice (saying the line) was savored by English musician Fatboy Slim for his hit single Right Here, Right Now in 1998.
16. In 2015, she voiced the first-ever female character of “Agent Six” for the video game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
17. Urban dictionary has an entry in her name called the “Angela Bassett Moment”, which is a rhyme to a famous scene in the film Waiting To Exhale (1995). The entry shows a woman’s wrath at being misled on by destroying her lover’s personal belongings, by generally setting things on fire as revenge.
18. She has grouped up with German doctor Barbara Sturm to initiate a skincare line of products for people of color. Dr. Barbara Sturm skincare collection includes cleansers, face creams, and hydraulic serums.
19. She impressed her directorial debut in 2015 with Whitney, a television film about the life and struggles of American all-time best selling artist Whitney Houston.