Age: 67
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Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett had her breakthrough portraying singer Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which won her a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had success starring in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Music of the Heart (1999). In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama Notorious (2009) and the action films Green Lantern (2011), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), and London Has Fallen (2016). She also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). For the latter, she won another Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, Bassett has starred as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). Her portrayal of Rosa Parks in the television film The Rosa Parks Story (2002) gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story earned her nominations for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the Fox drama series 9-1-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Angela Bassett
Esme Barineau
for Esme Barineau in Anselmo and Didina
Suggested by user_11699
A modern-day reimagining of Romeo and Juliet, a family feud ensues between a Dominican family and a newly arrived Haitian family in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Almodovars are the most powerful and wealthiest in the country whereas the Barineaus have moved to the Dominican Republic from Haiti for a better life and to keep their daughter, Didina out of trouble after Didina spent 6 months in a juvenile detention center for vandalizing a local market. Anselmo grew up very privileged and was forbidden from associating himself with poor non-Dominicans. Anselmo wants to explore life different from the life that his parents gave him. One night, the Almodovars throw a party where Anselmo spots Didina in a corner. Despite being born into different backgrounds, it takes a while for the couple to connect. Once they start dating, they face racism, disapproving family members, and the threat of being disowned until one tragic event changes everything. Will the couple choose each other or their families?
