Jumping The Broom Angela Bassett & Loretta Devine on tradition & marriage
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Equally at home on stage or on screen, award-winning actress LORETTA DEVINE (
Pamela Taylor) has created some of the most memorable roles in theater, film and television. Devine first captured national attention in the role of Lorrell, one of the three original "
Dreamgirls" in
Michael Bennett's award-winning
Broadway musical. She followed that performance with a fiery portrayal of
Lillian in
Bob Fosse's critically acclaimed stage production "
Big Deal." Subsequent work in
George C. Wolfe's "
Colored Museum" and "
Lady Day at
Emerson Bar and
Grill" cemented Devine's status as one of the most talented and versatile stage actresses.
Film roles soon followed, including a poignant turn as a single mother opposite
Whitney Houston,
Angela Bassett and
Gregory Hines in
Waiting to Exhale, which earned her an
NAACP Image Award for
Best Supporting Actress. Devine also won an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in
Penny Marshall's
The Preacher's Wife. Devine also received an
IFP "
Spirit" Award nomination for her role in
Woman Thou Art Loosed. She was featured in the
Academy Award®-winning film
Crash and the hit movie version of Dreamgirls. Additional film credits include the successful
Urban Legend franchise;
I Am Sam, opposite
Michelle Pfeiffer and
Sean Penn;
Kingdom Come;
What Women Want;
Punks; Hoodlums;
Down in the Delta and
Stanley and Iris.
Devine also appeared in
Sticky Fingers,
Amos and Andrew,
The Breaks,
The Price of
Kissing,
Lover Girl,
Class Act,
Living Large,
Caged Fear,
Little Nikita and
Dirty Laundry. Devine co-starred in
This Christmas and
First Sunday, both of which opened #1 at the box office. She voiced the character of
Delta, the chocolate brown toy poodle in
Beverly Hills Chihuahua, starring
Drew Barrymore. Her most recent releases are
Death at a Funeral, with
Chris Rock,
Martin Lawrence and Danny Glover;
Lottery Ticket and
Tyler Perry's
For Colored Girls, an all-star
adaptation of
Ntozake Shange's influential play.
ANGELA BASSETT (
Claudine Watson) Alluring audiences with emotionally tinged performances has been the signature of Angela Bassett, who personifies a sense of dignity and pride whenever she appears on screen. Her talent and abilities as an actress and executive producer in both television and film have time and time again earned the respect and acclaim from her peers and fans, proving herself to be one of the industry's premier leading ladies.
Angela recently wrapped shooting the McG helmed film,
This Means War for
20th Century Fox. Bassett joins
Chris Pine,
Tom Hardy and
Reese Witherspoon in the action/romantic comedy in the vein of
Mr. and Mrs. Smith about two best friends and international spies who fall in love with the same woman, and, in declaring war on each other, nearly fail to defeat a dangerous arms deal out to steal a nuke. Bassett is playing "
Collins", boss to
Pine's and
Hardy's characters who has dedicated her entire life to the spy business. This Means War will be released June 17th,
2011.
Also this summer, she will be seen in the hugely anticipated
Green Lantern opposite
Ryan Reynolds,
Peter Sarsgaard and
Tim Robbins. She will play "Dr.
Amanda Waller", a government agent who is a staple of the DC
Comics series.
Donald De Line produced the project and
Martin Campbell directed.
Angela is currently shooting
ABC's drama pilot "
Identity."
The project, from
ABC Studios,
Mark Gordon Co. and writer
John Glenn, is an action procedural based on a
British format, which centers on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Bassett will play
Martha, the
Special Agent in charge of the
FBI's new Identity
Crimes Unit. Bronx-tough Vassar graduate from
Greenwich, Martha is determined to make a go of this division, using sophisticated technology combined with good old fashioned investigative methods.
Perhaps best known for her intense portrayal of
Tina Turner in the biopic
What's Love Got to do With It? opposite
Laurence Fishburne, Angela earned the
Golden Globe for
Best Actress in a
Drama, an NAACP Image Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Motion Picture, and an
Academy Award® nomination for her powerful performance.
Bassett first made the successful crossover to the silver screen when she appeared in a small but rich role as the ambitious single mother who sends her son to live with his father in
John Singleton's
Boyz n the Hood. Other memorable roles include,
Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale co-starring Whitney Houston,
Kathryn Bigelow's futuristic
Strange Days with
Ralph Fiennes,
Vampire in Brooklyn opposite
Eddie Murphy, and
Supernova with
James Spader. Angela also starred as
Violetta Wallace, mother of slain rapper,
Christopher "
Notorious B.I.G." in Notorious. A BlackTree
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