SHE’S stepped into the shoes of many iconic women, from Tina Turner and Malcolm X’s widow, Betty Shabazz, to Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jnr, and civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Yet, it’s taken the role of a fictional queen in a made-up world to put Angela Bassett well and truly on the Hollywood award-givers map.
She’s already won a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice award this season and now has an Oscar nomination too. And if she’s presented with a little golden statue on Tinseltown’s glitziest night, she’ll make history for being the first actress to win an Oscar for a role in a superhero movie.
Angela – who plays Queen
