Angela Evelyn Bassett born August 16, is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the s, she has received various accolades , including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards , as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
In , Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world , [ 2 ] and she received an Academy Honorary Award. In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama Notorious , and the action films Green Lantern , Olympus Has Fallen , and London Has Fallen Bassett said the pregnancy "only made things harder", leading her parents to send her to her father's sister, Golden, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
While her aunt did not have any children of her own, she "loved children, and she was good with them. At the age of four, Bassett was picked up by her mother after her parents divorced; her mother took her and her sister to St. Petersburg, Florida. Bassett did not see her father again for several years, until she attended her grandmother's funeral.
There, Bassett met her father's daughter Jean, from his first marriage, who was twelve years old, and several years older than Bassett. She began at that school in , a year before the city of St.
Petersburg formally established busing to integrate its public schools. After completing seventh grade, Bassett was bused to Azalea Middle School for eighth and ninth grades. Bassett's mother became more involved in her daughters' studies and told the two that they would go to college.
