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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
Mayor Fleming
for Mayor Fleming in Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2013)
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Five years into his public career, Superman has become the world’s greatest symbol of hope, inspiring people across the globe while struggling to balance his responsibilities with life at the Daily Planet. While Lois Lane investigates encrypted files tied to Krypton and Jimmy Olsen chronicles Superman’s heroics, a mysterious object enters the solar system. It is Brainiac, an ancient artificial intelligence that preserves civilizations by shrinking and collecting them before their destruction. Following Brainiac into space, Superman discovers a massive archive containing stolen worlds from across the galaxy. Among them is Kandor, the lost Kryptonian capital. Brainiac reveals he studied Krypton for centuries and preserved parts of its culture before the planet’s demise. Exploring the archive, Clark discovers messages from Jor-El that force him to confront the pain of losing a world he never truly knew. As Brainiac prepares to add Earth to his collection, Superman realizes that heritage alone does not define who he is. Brainiac launches a global assimilation of Earth, forcing Superman into a desperate battle across Metropolis and aboard the alien vessel. While Lois and Jimmy expose Brainiac’s hidden systems on Earth, Superman frees Kandor and destroys the collector’s ship. During the crisis, a Kryptonian escape pod recovered from the vessel opens, revealing Kara Zor-El, a survivor from Krypton who expected to find her infant cousin and is shocked to discover him fully grown. Together they help secure Brainiac’s defeat, though fragments of his consciousness escape into digital networks across the cosmos. In the aftermath, Superman embraces Earth as his true home while welcoming Kara as the first living connection to his lost world and beginning her journey on Earth. Post-Credits: In Paris, Diana Prince watches coverage of Superman’s victory and the appearance of a second Kryptonian. She quietly smiles and says, “The age of heroes has begun again.”
