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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
Commander Vera St. James
for Commander Vera St. James in BLACK LOTUS
Suggested by mr95
BLACK LOTUS follows Lia Varela (Ana de Armas), a 32-year-old ex-cyber intelligence officer with a mysterious past. After a global data collapse, she is recruited by a rogue agency to track down fragments of an AI that could either save or destroy humanity. Each film uncovers deeper conspiracies, globe-trotting intrigue, and the blurred line between humanity and machine. Franchise Structure Film 1: BLACK LOTUS Lia is recruited to recover the first AI fragment in neo-Tokyo, forming her core team and facing off against Viktor’s mercenaries. Film 2: LOTUS SHADOW The chase leads them to cyber-Paris and the underworld, where old betrayals come to light and Echo makes her allegiances known. Film 3: LOTUS ASCENDANT The race to the final fragment in the Amazon basin, with the fate of humanity at stake, and Lia confronting her own humanity.
