Angela Bassett Net Worth 2024

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Net Worth	$25 million
Source of wealth	Actress, Director, Producer, and Activist
Date of Birth	August 16, 1958
Country of Residence	United States of America

Angela Bassett Net Worth

Angela Bassett net worth 2024: Angela Bassett is an American actress who has a net worth of $25 million.  She is best known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It . Angela is a gold winning actress.

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Bassett is a supporter of programs for the arts, especially for youth. She annually attends events for children with diabetes and those in foster homes. She is an active Ambassador of UNICEF for the United States and a member of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ. Bassett is a supporter of the Royal Theater Boys & Girls Club in her hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Early life and education

Bassett was born on August 16, 1958, in New York City, the daughter of Betty Jane  and Daniel Benjamin Bassett (1924–1981), and was raised in Harlem.

Bassett’s middle name was given to her in honor of her aunt Evelyn. The Bassett surname comes from her great-grandfather William Henry Bassett, who took the surname of his former slave owner.

 Ten months after Bassett was born, her mother became pregnant and had a second child, Bassett’s sister D’nette.

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Bassett said the pregnancy “only made things harder.” Bassett’s parents “shipped” her to stay with her father’s sister Golden. While her aunt did not have any children of her own, she “loved children, and she was good with them.”

Bassett attended Yale University and received her B.A. degree in African-American studies in 1980. In 1983, she earned an M.F.A. degree from the Yale School of Drama, despite opposition from her father’s sister who warned her to not “waste” her “Yale education on theater.” She was the only member of Bassett’s family to have gone to both college and graduate school.

 At Yale, Bassett met her future husband Courtney B. Vance, a 1986 graduate of the drama school. Bassett was also classmates with actor Charles S. Dutton.

Career

After graduation, Bassett worked as a receptionist for a beauty salon and as a photo researcher. Bassett soon looked for acting work in the New York theater. One of her first New York performances came in 1985 when she appeared in J. E. Franklin’s Black Girl at Second Stage Theatre.

She appeared in two August Wilson plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre under the direction of her long-time instructor Lloyd Richards.

The Wilson plays featuring Bassett were Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1986).

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In 2006, she had the opportunity to work on the Wilson canon again, starring in Fences alongside longtime collaborator Laurence Fishburne at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Bassett began her film career in the 1980s, after earning a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and a master of fine arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. In the 1990s, 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 year. Bassett’s success has continued into the 2010s. Bassett earned nominations for her roles in films such as The Score (2001), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Meet the Browns (2008), and 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. Bassett’s performance as Rosa Parks in the 2002 film The Rosa Parks Story was honored with her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Bassett provided the voice of Dorothea Williams in the Pixar animated film Soul, which was released on Disney+ on December 25, 2020.

In 2003, she read from the WPA slave narratives in Unchained Memories. In the 1930s, about 100,000 former slaves were still living during the Great Depression, of which 2,300 were interviewed part of the Federal Writers’ Project. The transcripts of the Slave Narratives collection of the Library of Congress is a record of slavery, bondage and misery.

In 2004, she had roles in the films The Lazarus Child and Mr. 3000. Mr. 3000 was a comedy in which Bassett costarred with Bernie Mac. When asked if the film was much easier to act in than the more intense roles she had in the past, Bassett responded, “This was much easier. 

Bassett provided her voice for the 2007 film Meet the Robinsons. When asked about her motives in taking on the role, Bassett said, “For one, it was a character I had never played before, which is always important to me, to keep me sharp. But it was also the desire to be part of a well-written movie that has something really positive to say about families and about all the different ways there can be to make a family.”

In January 2018, Bassett starred in the Fox first responder procedural drama 9–1–1, of which she is also a producer. In February 2018, Bassett starred in the acclaimed Marvel superhero film Black Panther as Queen Ramonda, mother of the titular character.

In July 2018, she portrayed CIA Director Erika Sloane in the action spy film Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

In December 2018, she voiced the Decepticon villain ‘Shatter’ from the Transformers live-action film Bumblebee.

In 2019, she joined the cast of Gunpowder Milkshake. She also reprised her role as Ramonda in Avengers: Endgame.

Personal life

Bassett married actor Courtney B. Vance in 1997. In the summer of 2005, they starred together in a production of His Girl Friday at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The couple’s twins – son Slater Josiah Vance and daughter Bronwyn Golden Vance – carried by a surrogate, were born on January 27, 2006.

Bassett was initiated as an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority on July 13, 2013.

Angela Bassett Net Worth

Angela Bassett net worth 2024 is estimated at $25 million.  Known for her portrayals of strong African-American female leads, Bassett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including; three Black Reel Awards, a Golden Globe Award, seven NAACP Image Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.

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