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Angela Bassett Trivia
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- As of 2005 she is the first and only African American recipient of the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, as Tina Turner in "What's Love Got To Do With It".
- Bassett has built her career around playing some of the most celebrated real-life, pioneering black women of the twentieth century. She was Oscar-nominated and won both the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture for her star-making performance as Tina Turner/Anna Mae Bullock in _What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)_ . She won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work as the late-Dr. Betty Shabazz (widow of the slain civil rights pioneer Malcolm X) in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992). She would later play Dr. Shabazz in a cameo appearance in Mario Van Peebles' Panther (1995). She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) (TV). In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in _Music of The Heart (1999)_ . She was also in the running to play Dorothy Dandridge, until Halle Berry beat her to the punch with the HBO telefilm, "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge".
- Engaged to Courtney B. Vance. [1997]
- Turned down the role of Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball" because she did not want to perform nude.
- Played Muslim activist Betty Shabazz in two different movies: Malcolm X and Panther (1995)
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