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In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

Angela Bassett

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Angela Bassett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
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Angela Evelyn Bassett
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