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
The Witch of the Waste
for The Witch of the Waste in Howl's Moving Castle Live Action - from the book!
Suggested by melissabalmer
Yes! The animated film is delightful but I think a live action movie should go back to the original book for inspiration. As Sophie is an old woman most of the film I think Dame Helen Mirren would be marvelous. 18 year old Sophie Hatter is a young woman yearning for adventure but feeling her life as the oldest of three girls means she's destined to have an uninteresting life. She works long hours as talented unpaid apprentice for her step-mother. Bored, Sophie talks to the hats she's trimming for company, and has no idea she's powerfully and magically influencing them. Returning from a day out for May Day celebrations Sophy is accosted by a strange woman she realizes is the infamous Witch of the Waste. The witch, jealous of what Sophy's been making happen with her charmed hats (which Sophy has no idea she's actually doing) she curses Sophy and turns her into an old woman. Sophie decides to leave home to find a way to reverse the curse and runs into the floating castle where the evil Wizard Howl lives. Quite an adventure unfolds! Image: Folio Society's special edition illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel.
