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
Amanda Waller
for Amanda Waller in Christopher Nolan's Nightwing
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When professor Hugo Strange starts creating meta-humans including Killer Croc, Solomon Grundy, and Silver Banshee John "Robin" Blake aka Nightwing starts looking into it and eventually starts to find that Hugo Strange has been dead for decades and someone else has been using his name. Throughout the movie John looks into these meta-humans while a man named Victor Fries starts getting involved with criminals to pay for his sick wife's treatment eventually leading him to meet his untimely end in a vat of chemicals while being chased by Commissioner Barbara Gordon II into Ace Chemicals. Lucky for Victor his employer who has been using the alias Hugo Strange brings him back as Mr. Freeze. John eventually gets into a confrontation with Victor where Victor accidentally kills himself with his ice gun. John tracks down Hugo only to discover that Hugo is actually Amanda Waller the warden of Belle Reve prison. The movie ends with Amanda going to prison and John at Alfred Pennyworth's grave vowing to stop these meta-humans as a man steps out of his car and goes to speak with John. He tells John that he knows he is Nightwing and wants to help. John asks who he is and the man tells him his name is Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne sent him.
