Angela Bassett’s Net Worth Is Massive Thanks to ‘9-1-1,’ ‘Black Panther,’ and More Major Hits
Angela Bassett has been acting since 1986, had her breakthrough in movies like Boyz n the Hood and What's Love Got to Do With It, and since then has won a casual 16 NAACP Image Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award—not to mention been nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. And she's made a lot of money along the way, by which we mean Angela Bassett has a reported net worth of $25 million in 2023. (Note: that's a combined net worth with her husband Courtney B. Vance.)
So What Is Angela Bassett's Salary Per Movie?
It's pretty high, which definitely sheds some light onto that $25 million net worth. Let's kick things off with Angela's breakout role in What's Love Got to Do With It, which Celebrity Net Worth reports paid her just $250,000 (to be clear: that's obviously a huge amount of money for a normal person, just not necessarily a huge amount of money for a leading actress). But thankfully, Angela's per-project rate steadily went up over the years. By 1995, she was making $2.5 million for Waiting to Exhale and took home $3.5 million for Supernova and *another* $3.5 million for The Score.
What Did Angela Bassett Make for Black Panther?
Reporting is honestly all over the place on this one. Just Jared claims that Chadwick Boseman made $2 million for Black Panther, so Angela Bassett may have made slightly less for her supporting role. How much exactly? TBD, though there are reports that she made $350,000 for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever!
Angela Bassett Makes a Huge Amount for 9-1-1 on FOX
Angela earns a pretty major paycheck for starring in Ryan Murphy's 9-1-1. In 2021, Deadline reported that she inked a new deal ahead of season 5 earning her north of $450,000 an episode.
Angela was asked about her salary by The Guardian, and after joking “you journalists, you say a lot of things,” she said, "You know what? One of the things I said early in my career is: ‘I want to work consistently and I want to be paid fairly.’ I think that’s what all of us longed for and, if and when that happens, it’s a good day. And I hope that it paves the way for equity for others. That’s my desire.”
What About Her Real Estate?
According to the sleuths at Celebrity Net Worth, Angela and Courtney B. Vance had a home in Hancock Park, which they put on the market for $6 million back in 2007. Considering they bought the home in the '90s, gonna assume they turned a pretty big profit—leading to that $25 million joint net worth!
That said, Angela told InStyle that money isn't the most important thing to her:
"Everyone wants to keep the lights on, but I've never been motivated solely by money or fame. For me, it's always and only been for the joy of following my dreams. That's what makes me feel alive. Now, it's good to be paid. That is one thing that I've said to myself since early on in my career. I mean, I literally would say, 'I want to work in roles that can change me and change the conversation. I want to work consistently. And I want to be paid fairly.' It's about knowing your worth and standing on it. Being in positions and places where your worth is appreciated is a good thing. I'm glad that it can influence others. There is a bit of me that's from a generation where we don't talk openly about things like that. But I understand what generation this is today."
Love that! But on another note, obviously it would be morally wrong not to include this gif before we go, so:
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