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Angela Bassett: A 30-Year Love Story & Motherhood
16 Aug
Summary
- Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance celebrate three decades together.
- The couple welcomed twins via surrogate in January 2006.
- Bassett hopes her children see her success as inspiration.
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance have built a lasting partnership of three decades, sharing two children. The couple first met in the 1980s as students at the Yale School of Drama. They later reconnected in Los Angeles and married on October 12, 1997.
Their family expanded on January 27, 2006, when they welcomed fraternal twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, through surrogacy. Vance recounted to Oprah in 2007 how they had prayed for children and that having twins felt like a dream come true.
As Bassett, who turns 68 on August 16, 2026, reflects on her career, she expresses a desire for her children to see her as a Black woman achieving her dreams through hard work. She aims for them to be inspired by her success and to pursue their own ambitions.
