Angela bassett
Born in nyc angela bassett then moved to st.petersburg florida where she attended high school. One of ms.bassett's high school teacher pused her to go to one of the top academic school's in the country yale university.
Her mother betty was ývery proud of angela because growing up she in stilled the importance of education to angela and her sister d'nette. College is where angela met her husband courtney b. Vance while she earned her masters in fine arts in 1983. After that angela began her acting carrer staring in her first major debut film "what's love got to do with it" co-starring laurence fishburn which landed her a golden globe for best actress. Then she went on to earn supporting actress award from the naacp image awards for playing betty shabazz in spike lee's malcom x. Then she went on to not only play dr.betty shabazz again in the film panther but soon after ended up playing in the 5-part series the jackson five: the american dream. It seems like ms bassett has a knack for re living the lives of some of the world most powerful women. This time she's doing it again on january 16th 2009 in the film notorious playing voletta wallace mother to the late great notorious big hip hops greatest of all time.
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