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Angela Bassett Wins First Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator: ‘I’m Just a Girl Who Wanted to Act’


Angela Bassett won her first Emmy award for outstanding narrator for National Geographic's nature series 'Queens.'

Bassett won the award for outstanding narration on National Geographic’s nature documentary “Queens” on Saturday, the first night of the Creative Arts Emmys. The idea of an all-female crew in the wilderness telling this story and centering it on the matriarchs and the conservation they were doing — it touched my heart.” Bassett is now halfway to earning an EGOT (she received an honorary Academy Award in January of this year).

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