A meeting between two of Hollywood's most iconic and enduring figures is taking place tonight in OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett. In the hourlong special filmed at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the media mogul will sit down with the legendary actress Angela Bassett in celebration of her recent honorary Academy Award and to delve into her decades-spanning acting career.
Bassett's breakthrough performance, of course, came as the late, great Tina Turner in the 1993 biopic What's Love Got to Do with It, which garnered the performer a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Over the years, she's had memorable turns in films like Boyz n the Hood, Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, Strange Days, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Akeelah and the Bee and Queen Ramonda in the Black Panther franchise. She received her second Golden Globe award as well as another Oscar nomination for her work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
