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The 66-year-old star can be seen playing US President Erika Sloane in blockbuster film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning this summer, and also played President Evelyn Mitchell in the Netflix series Zero Day. Bassett, who has been Oscar-nominated twice, hopes that a woman will be voted into office in the USA one day soon. She told PEOPLE, "Whenever I'm portraying them, I'm hoping and waiting for the day where life will imitate art. We're not there yet, obviously." "Maybe (it's) for some people to see representation.”