Angela Bassett to play Coretta Scott King
ATLANTA -According to the Hollywood Reporter, Oscar-nominated actress Angela Bassett has been cast to play the late Coretta Scott King, in a film on Lifetime tentatively called ``Betty and Coretta.''
Film star and St. Petersburg native Angela Bassett is helping out her hometown theater company by accepting an honorary chair at the American Stage Theatre Company for the August Wilson Century Cycle Consortium.