Angela Bassett is a Hollywood icon! From her stellar performance as Tina Turner in the 1993 film, What’s Love Got To Do With It, to her 1995 performance where she played the character of Bernadine Harris alongside Whitney Houston in Waiting To Exhale to the showstopping role of Stella in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Today she’s known for her more recent roles in blockbusters such as the Black Panther franchise and even Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story and 9-1-1 series.
Ahead of Season 5 of 9-1-1, Bassett received a promotion, along with a pay increase of $450,000 per episode, which immediately put Bassett at the top of the highest-earning actors at the Fox network in 2021. It also made her the highest-paid black actress in history.
Bassett set the bar, and today, she is at number 4 of black Hollywood actresses who are coining it.
Here are the top 5 highest-paid black actresses in Hollywood in 2023:
- Kerry Washington – $1.1 million per episode
- Zendaya – $1 million per episode
- Taraji P. Henson – $500 000 per episode
- Angela Bassett – $450 000 per episode
- Viola Davis – $250 000 per episode
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