American Horror Story

Angela Bassett stars as Marie Laveau in AHS: 13.

Career Highlights

Angela Bassett is an honorary Academy Award recipient and Emmy Award-winning actress, director and executive producer known for captivating performances in iconic films such as Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Black Panther, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Damsel and, of course, What’s Love Got to Do With It, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.Bassett returned as the beloved Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, receiving Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice awards, along with Academy Award, Actor Award and BAFTA Award nominations, as well as the Variety Creative Impact in Acting Award.She is the star and executive producer of ABC’s hit drama 9-1-1 and earned her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for the critically acclaimed National Geographic docuseries Queens. Bassett reunited with Robert De Niro in the Netflix limited series Zero Day and with Tom Cruise in the box-office fan favorite Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.Bassett has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and TIME’s Women of the Year, has earned multiple Emmy Award nominations and is the recipient of an Actor Award, 16 NAACP Image Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, the Black Girls Rock! Icon Award, the Critics’ Choice Celebration of Black Cinema &amp; Television Career Achievement Award, an African American Film Critics Association TV Honor and Glamour’s Women of the Year Award. She was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for her directorial debut of the Whitney Houston biopic Whitney. She was named a Disney Legend for her countless contributions to the brand’s vast legacy of movies, television and theme parks.Bassett Vance Productions, established by Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, is in partnership with 20th Television to develop and executive produce comedy, drama, limited series and television movies for linear networks and streamers, with an emphasis on platforms across Disney Entertainment Television.Bassett graduated with a B.A. in African American studies, an M.F.A. in drama and an honorary doctorate from Yale University. She also has honorary doctorates from Morehouse College, Spelman College, the American Film Institute and Old Dominion University.

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Angela Bassett stars as Marie Laveau in American Horror Story: 13.

Angela Basset headshot wearing a white top with gold hoops AHS: 13

Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau | AHS: 13 on FX

American Horror Story: 13

Angela Bassett

Career Highlights

Kathy Bates
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Emma Roberts
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Billie Lourd
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Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau | AHS: 13 on FX

Angela Bassett

Emma Robertsas Madison Montgomery

Billie Lourdas Winter Anderson / Mallory

Emma Roberts
as Madison Montgomery

Billie Lourd
as Winter Anderson / Mallory