Summary: She is one of the most powerful and respected female actors of all time. She has won numerous awards including a Golden Globe and the NAACP Image Award. Her film credits include starring as Tina Turner in "What's Love Got to Do with It", as Betty Shabazz in "Malcolm X" and "Panther", as Rosa Parks in "The Rosa Parks Story", as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries "The Jacksons: An American Dream" and as Voletta Wallace in the film "Notorious". She graduated from Yale University with a BA in African-American Studies and with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. Like Denzel Washington, she is a longtime worshipper at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in California. She said of her faith, "When you realize that every breath is a gift from God. When you realize how small you are, but how much He loved you. That He, Jesus, would die, the son of God himself on earth, then you just weep." Her name is Angela Bassett.
