Angela Bassett Wins First Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator: ‘I’m Just a Girl Who Wanted to Act’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Angela Bassett is now an Emmy winner. Bassett won the award for outstanding narration on National Geographic’s nature documentary “Queens” on Saturday, the first night of the Creative Arts Emmys.
Following her triumph, Bassett came backstage to the press room, where a reporter asked her what the win meant to her. “We don’t work for these, but we receive them for all the hard work that we do,” Bassett said. “Of course, it’s not work that you do alone, even though it’s for narration.
There’s a whole team that pursued me and believed in me, fought for me, and worked with me to tell this amazing story of females in the wild kingdom, led by an all-female production team, a first in wildlife documentary filmmaking.
So that was pretty inspiring to me in and of itself.” Bassett was on a hiatus from FX’s “9-1-1” when she agreed to the project.
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