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MAKE-UP ARTISTS & HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS | 13 D I S T I N G U I S H E D A R T I S A N A W A R D ANGELA BASSETT • ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Most recently acclaimed for her creative work on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, for which she has received a Golden Globe Award, an Oscar nomination, and a SAG Award nomination, and the hit primetime television drama 9-1-1, Angela Bassett has captivated us in treasured films with emotionally tinged performances full of dignity. "Local 706 wishes to show its appreciation to Angela Bassett, who has portrayed amazingly iconic women we can all relate to. She boldly collaborates with her 706 make-up and hair teams to extend their imaginations and develop magical but always relatable characters you will remember forever, from the beloved Queen Ramonda to feisty Tina Turner to Bernadine in Waiting to Exhale. We couldn't think of a better person to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary," said Local 706 President Julie Socash. e Distinguished Artisan Award will celebrate the prolific spectrum of Bassett's versatile career on screen and television. She has appeared in treasured films such as Waiting To Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. She played Queen Ramonda in Marvel Studios Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She recently wrapped production on the Netflix Originals feature film, Damsel, opposite Millie Bobby Brown. Her other notable film roles were in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Malcolm X, Notorious, Green Lantern, Contact, Music of the Heart, Bumblebee, Olympus Has Fallen, and London Has Fallen, among many others. Angela is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, and is the recipient of two SAG Awards, 11 NAACP Image Awards, a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Black Girls Rock! Icon Award. She was also nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for her directorial debut of the Whitney Houston biopic Whitney and directed episodes in the popular horror antholog y series American Horror Story. Other recent projects include Disney/Pixar's Academy Award- winning animated feature Soul, for which she lent her melodious voice for the character, Dorothea Williams; feature films Otherhood and Gunpowder Milkshake, and e Flood, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Narrator. Bassett was also nominated for two Emmys for performances in e Imagineering Story: e Happiest Place on Earth and for A Black Lady Sketch Show. Additional credits include e Rosa Parks Story and Master of None. Bassett produces and stars as an LAPD patrol sergeant in the drama series 9-1-1. Upcoming is the documentary feature Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood, with Bassett and Halle Berry on board as executive producers. Angela was recently honored by Glamour's Women of the Year Awards and received a Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Narration of Good Night Oppy and the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema & Television Career Achievement Award. Angela and her husband, Courtney B. Vance, are the principals of their production company, Bassett Vance Productions. eir first project was One ousand Years of Slavery. L-R: Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; in 9-1-1; directing the biopic Whitney; in Waiting to Exhale; as Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It?