Angela Bassett had a film career.
Angela Bassett . She is best known for her biographical film roles , most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What 's Love Got to Do with It ( 1993 ) , for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a corresponding Golden Globe Award . Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both Malcolm X ( 1992 ) and Panther ( 1995 ) , Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons : An American Dream ( 1992 ) , Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story ( 2002 ) , Voletta Wallace in Notorious ( 2009 ) and Coretta Scott King in Betty & Coretta ( 2013 ) . Bassett began her film career in the mid-1980s , after earning a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and a master of fine arts degree from drama school . In the 1990s , she appeared in films nearly every year . Bassett earned nominations for her roles in films such as The Score ( 2001 ) , Akeelah and the Bee ( 2006 ) , Meet the Browns ( 2008 ) and Jumping the Broom ( 2011 ) and won awards for her performances in How Stella Got Her Groove Back ( 1998 ) and Music of the Heart ( 1999 ) among others .