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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.
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Jailbreak is a 2025 American prison action film written and directed by John McTiernan. Zack Snyder and Jerry Bruckheimer served as producers. The film stars Sasha Calle along with Colin Farrell, Michael Shannon, Angela Bassett, Billy Crudup, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Russell Crowe, Michael Keaton, and Alec Baldwin. It follows a young mercenary who is paid to be arrested in order to break an innocent man out of prison, only to realize that she has been betrayed. Despite this, she still decides to do the right thing and proceed with her plans, even as they are hindered by the cruel warden. Jailbreak opened in theaters on February 18th, 2025; the film received critical acclaim, with praise for its action sequences, visual style, and Calle's performance; many have deemed the film to be one of the best of her career. It was also a box-office success, grossing $983 million worldwide against a budget of $139 million. The film became one the first prison film to win all five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Score for Hans Zimmer, while Calle was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. A sequel was announced and is slated for release two years later.
