Groovin’ For Love: Angela Bassett

After standout roles playing Tina Tumer in What's Love Got to Do With It (1993) and appearing with Whitney Houston in Waiting to Exhale (1995) , Angela Bassett's big '90s romantic comedy was How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), starring opposite Taye Diggs. In it she plays Stella, a 40-year-old stockbroker on vacation in Jamaica who meets a young islander (Diggs) 20 years her junior, The budding romance between the two causes Stella to seek a balance between the responsible life of carrer and motherhood and the places love takes her. Bassett later starred in the rom-com Meet the Browns (2008) with Tyler Perry and in Jumping the Broom (20111) with Brian Stokes Mitchell, playing a mother of the bride who sweeps up a nice romantic conclusion for herself.