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  Angela BassettAKA:
Angela Evelyn Bassett
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08/16/1958 Birthplace:
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biography
This regally beautiful stage-trained black performer has distinguished herself on stage, TV and film, often playing intelligent but long-suffering women who exhibit strength, patience and quiet elegance. Bassett has played opposite some of contemporary Hollywood's most illustrious black leading men including Laurence Fishburne, Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy. She has also worked with such notable black filmmakers as Ossie Davis, Spike Lee and John Singleton. Bassett, however, has not been confined to "black subjects" as she has also been featured prominently in diverse TV projects and in
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Born in NYC's Harlem
Moved with mother and sister to St. Petersburg, Florida
Became the first black student at her high school to be accepted into the National Honor Society
Acting debut in a school production of "A Raisin in the Sun"
Worked with the Negro Ensemble Company as an understudy
1984
Worked at the Hartford Stage Company performing in "The Mystery Plays"
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