Angela Evelyn Bassett born August 16, 1958, is an actress from the United States. She has been active in film and television since the late 1980s and has received numerous honors, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
In 1997, Bassett married actor Courtney B. Vance. They first met at Yale School of Drama, then became a couple after their paths crossed again in Los Angeles over a decade later.
They co-starred in a production of His Girl Friday at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the summer of 2005. A surrogate carried the couple’s twins, son Slater Josiah Vance and daughter Bronwyn Golden Vance.
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On January 21, 2013, Bassett attended Obama’s second public inauguration. During the 2016 United States presidential election, she endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying, “Bar none, Clinton would be a magnificent president.
” Bassett also appeared at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where she introduced survivors of the previous year’s Charleston church shooting, which she mentioned during her comments.
Bassett tweeted after Clinton was defeated in the general election, “There are just 1455 days till November 3, 2020. My country, please rest. #ProudOfHer”.
On July 13, 2013, Bassett was initiated as an honorary member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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