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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.
THIS IS IN THE REBOOTED MCU, some actors will stay others will go. Decades ago a family from Wakanda's neighbor country of Mohannda was fleeing their country after their village was burned to the ground but they were caught and killed by their persecutors, only their baby boy named Hunter was spared after his father hid him in the bushes. Later in the evening more of the terrorists were searching through the forest but were taken out by the Black Panther, prince S'Yan of Wakanda. When the prince found the boy he took him back home and showed his brother King T'Chaka, who then took the boy in and raised him as his own. Hunter was loyal to T'Chaka and Queen Mother, but when she died and T'Chaka remarried and had kids of his own Hunter became jealous of young T'Challa who was declared heir to the throne. As teens Hunter and T'Challa were trained by their uncle S'Yan to become the new protectors of Wakanda. Eventually S'Yan was killed and T'Challa became the new Black Panther, Hunter believing that he would become King because there had never been a King Black Panther, but when T'Chaka was killed during the events of Civil War, T'Challa became the King because the council would not allow an outsider to take the thrown, so Hunter remained in his position as leader of the Hatut Zeraze, Wakanda's secret police and defenders. Because of this Hunter began to resent his younger brother and swore to take the throne which in his eyes belonged to him.
