Along with Mission: Impossible 6 Bassett will also appear in Black Panther next year as Ramonda, T’Challa’s mother.
After completing work on Mission: Impossible 6, she’ll start working on her 911 series for Fox, which she’s starring in and executive producing.
In recent years she’s been an Emmy-nominated cast member in FX’s American Horror Story, and she popped up in an episode in the just-released Master of None Season 2.
Angela Bassett has been a Hollywood icon for over 30 years, with her notable credits including What’s Love Got to Do With It, Malcolm X, Panther, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Contact, Notorious, Green Lantern and Olympus Has Fallen (and its sequel).