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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
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for Airachnid in Transformers: Cybertron Falls
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Transformers: Cybertron Falls is a 2028 American science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Zack Snyder, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Blomkamp based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. A co-production between Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry, the film is the final installment in the Cybertron Quadrilogy and the direct sequel to Transformers: Space Bridge. It stars an ensemble cast, including Peter Cullen, Sasha Calle, Justin Chatwin, Idris Elba, Jeffrey Combs, Kevin Nash, John Cena, Katherine Waterston, Jamie Foxx, Ron Livingston, Angela Bassett, Sam Elliott, Frank Welker, and Josh Brolin. In the film, a healed Optimus Prime must lead the Autobots into a final stand against the cruel Megatron and the other Decepticons in order to leave Cybertron and save the universe when a powerful new enemy claiming to be Megatron's master emerges and threatens the very safety of all life from beyond. Transformers: Cybertron Falls was released in theaters on January 29th, 2028; grossing $2.52 billion, it was a financial success and became the highest-grossing Transformers film of all time with a budget of over $571 million. The film received universal acclaim, with strong praise for its emotional weight, the action sequences, visuals, story, performances (particularly Cullen, Calle, and Brolin), the darker tone, Hans Zimmer's musical score, direction, and satisfying conclusion of the storyline.
