2016Winner
Best Performance
13th
Assata Shakur
Actor
Queens, New York, USA
July 16, 1947
Biography
Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1997Winner
Best Performance
Eyes of the Rainbow
2008Nominee
Best Performance
Assata aka Joanne Chesimard
Career Highlights
2007Highlight
Best Performance
Fred Baker - filmmaker