American actress Angela Bassett, 64, will receive an Honorable Oscar at this year's Governors Awards Ceremony, which recognizes figures who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and fans, falling under the category of Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Angela Bassett is an American actress who has distinguished herself in film and television since the late 1980s, receiving various accolades, including two Golden Globes, as well as two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy nominations. Angela Bassett is an American actress who has distinguished herself in film and television since the late 1980s, receiving various accolades, including two Golden Globes, as well as two Academy Awards and seven Primetime Emmy nominations. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential entertainment companies in the world in 2023.
Born in New York City on August 16, 1958, Angela Bassett attended Yale University on an academic scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in African American Studies in 1980 and a master's degree in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1983. Angela Bassett's breakthrough role was playing singer Tina Turner in the biopic How Deep Is Love (1993), which earned her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In recent years, she has also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, a character that has appeared in Black Panther (2018), Avengers 4: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther 2 (2022). She also won a Golden Globe for "Black Panther 2" and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
The 64-year-old is fighting more and more fiercely, has no idea of stopping at all, and is said to continue to make movies, hoping to become a legend in the film industry.