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  Palmer Bridges Biography Book Report Angela Basset By: Dawn Fitzgerald This biography written by Dawn FitzGerald is about Angela Bassett. The Harlem born actress loved to act and sing. The reason Angela is important is because it took Hollywood a long time to recognize how superb of an actress until she recived an Academy Award nomination in 1994. The reason she got the nomination was for her dead on portrayal of Tina Turner In What's Love Got To Do with It?  Angela has gone from a nobody that only her family basically knows to a wonderful women who everybody wants to be just like when they become her age! She started acting at a young age and now is loved by many people   Angela Bassett was born on August 16th. Before starting a movie career in 1988 the Harlem-born actress studied at the prestigious Yale School of Drama, where she developed her craft alongside the countries best actors. After a brief stretch in Broadway theater, Angela headed for Hollywood committed to landing only quality parts-a diffcult task with the overload of stereotypical roles for black actress. Still, Angela found success by collaborating with directors John Singleton and Spike Lee, and writer Terry McMillan in the block busters Waiting To Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

   Some characteristics that made Angela Basset so important are, she goes Yale on a full scholarship and graduates in 1980 with a B.A. in African-American Studies. Also in 1980 she enrolls in Yale School Of Drama. In 1983 Angela graduates with Master Of Fine Arts from the Yale School Of Drama and moves to New York City. She lands her first role in an off-off Broadway production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone. She also preforms with Negro Ensemble Company. Angela is married to Courtney B. Valnce and they have 2 beautiful children. She is dedicated to any and everything she does with her career and family!  

Angela contributes to acting soon after she graduates Yale some roles and things she has done are, in 1984 she appears in Broadway productions of Auguse Wilson's plays Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Also in 1989 she appears in the television series A Man Called Hawk as Hawk's girlfriend. In 1995 Angela was moninated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for What's Love Got To Do With It?. She also stars as Bernadine Harris in Waiting To Exhale. Another one is she appears in three other movies: Vampie In Brooklyn, Panther, and Strange Days. Also in 1998 she stars with Whoopi Goldberg in How Stella Get Her Groove Back. She also stared as Mrs.Jackson in the Jackson 5 movie she loved playing this part and thought she did a wonderful job portraying her in the movie.     The part of Angela Basset's life that I admire the most is how she goes from becoming just another person out in the world to someone that everyone admires and wants to be just like. That just amazes me. She started out as just a little old girl from Harlem to a inspiring actress. That is how I wish to be some day going from a nobody and becoming someone that everyone adores. Also how she contiues to fine the leading roles that she deserves as each new performance stands as a testment to her talent and dedication to her passion and the reason she gets up every morning and says that she loves her job and wants to keep doing it every single day. She is a very dedicated actress! Also how she is able to do so much work and still able to come home and play with her children and sit with her husband on the couch and relax. She has never given up on her passion or on her family she still loves and believes in both things which is fantastic for her to do!

    I believe that this Biography about the wonderful actress Angela Basset does give a honest account about her in the book. The way it shows a honest account by showing when and where she was born. Also the movies she has stared in. Another way it gave a honest account was by showing the different talk shows she has stared in and also what actors and actress she has guest stared with on T.V and movies. Also it tells who she married when she married and also how she has gone through every detail with acting. Angela Basset is a wonderful actress that everybody looks up to for what she has been through and many other ways! Angela Bassett is a wonderful dedicated actress that also is a wonderful wife to her husband Courtney B Vlance and a wonderful mother to her two beautiful children! media type="youtube" key="cxGl5EosV3I" height="405" width="500"