American actress Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958. In addition to winning three Black Reel Awards, a Golden Globe Award, seven NAACP Image Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, she was nominated for an Academy Award and won seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
After graduating from Yale University, Bassett began her acting career in the 1980s. After playing minor roles, such as Reva Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Bassett was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of singer Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993).
Early life and education
Betty Jane Bassett, a social worker and civil servant, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a preacher’s son, were the parents of Bassett. In honor of her aunt Evelyn, Bassett was given her middle name. In the ten months following Bassett’s birth, her mother became pregnant again and had a second child, Bassett’s sister D’nette. Her parents sent her to her father’s sister, Golden, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after the pregnancy “only made things worse”. Her aunt did not have any children of her own, but she loved children and was good with them.
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