I'm just so blessed to be able to do what I just love and have loved since I was a teenager, since I first found it, and to be encouraged by others for it.
"Angela Evelyn Bassett Vance" is an United States/American actress and film director. She has become well known for her biographical film roles portraying real-life women, including Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (film)/What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X (1992 film)/Malcolm X and Panther (film)/Panther, Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, and Voletta Wallace in Notorious (2009 film)/Notorious.
Bassett began her film career in the mid-1980s after graduating from Yale University and its Yale School of Drama/drama school. She did not find any stability in the industry until the 1990s, at which point she appeared in films nearly every year. The 2000s saw a succession of films starring Bassett, with her appearing in at least one film every single year. Bassett's success has continued into the 2010s. Bassett earned nominations for her roles in films such as The Score (2001 film)/The Score (2001), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Meet the Browns (film)/Meet the Browns (2008) and Jumping the Broom (film)/Jumping the Broom (2011) and won awards for her performances in How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) and Music of the Heart (1999) among others.
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I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.
That play and those performances had a huge impact. It just changed the whole trajectory of my life. When [Jones] kills that woman at the end of the play, this simple-minded man who is gentle with a little mouse, it just spoke to my little girl's heart. I was the last one out of the theater. I was sitting there weeping.
And what we do is sacred.
If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think it was a destiny for her life.
I think we both have a genuine respect and love for what we do. Theater is sacred.
I would straggle the line between being the bright and smart kid and trying to be cool in the lunch room — that sort of thing.
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