Courtney B. Vance
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 12, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Isle of Dogs (2018). Vance is also known for work on television on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He also guest-starred on Law & Order, Picket Fences, The Closer, Revenge, Scandal, and Masters of Sex. He won acclaim for his portrayal of Johnnie Cochran in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He recently appeared in the HBO television film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), National Geographic's limited series Genius: Aretha (2020), and the HBO drama series Lovecraft Country (2020) the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has been married to actress Angela Bassett since 1997. Vance is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, and is an active supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In 2019, Vance was appointed as the President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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Filmography
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Movie · as Self
Girl Dad
Movie
Lilo & Stitch
Movie · as Cobra Bubbles
Death Wish
Movie · as Pilot (voice)
Grotesquerie
TV · as Marshall Tryon · 10 eps
Heist 88
Movie · as Jeremy Horne
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
TV · as Zeus · 1 ep
Sherri
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
61st Street
TV · as Franklin Roberts · 16 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Amend: The Fight for America
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Project Power
Movie · as Captain Craine
The Photograph
Movie · as Louis Morton
Uncorked
Movie · as Louis
Between the World and Me
Movie · as Self
Lovecraft Country
TV · as George Freeman · 3 eps
On Broadway
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Movie · as Self - Host
The Tamron Hall Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Groveland Four
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Ben Is Back
Movie · as Mr. Beeby
The Mummy
Movie · as Colonel Greenway
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Movie · as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Genius
TV · as C.L. Franklin · 8 eps
Office Christmas Party
Movie · as Walter Davis
American Crime Story
TV · as Johnnie Cochran · 10 eps
Terminator Genisys
Movie · as Miles Dyson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Graceland
TV · as Sam Campbell · 1 ep
Masters of Sex
TV · as Dr. Charles Hendricks · 3 eps
Joyful Noise
Movie · as Pastor Dale
The Divide
Movie · as Delvin
Let It Shine
Movie · as Jacob
Finding Your Roots
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Scandal
TV · as Clarence Parker · 1 ep
Final Destination 5
Movie · as Agent Block
Revenge
TV · as Benjamin Brooks · 4 eps
Extraordinary Measures
Movie · as Marcus Temple
Hurricane Season
Movie · as Mr. Randolph
FlashForward
TV · as Stanford Wedeck · 22 eps
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Nothing but the Truth
Movie · as Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie · as Corey (segment "Fences")
The Fight
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Closer
TV · as Chief Tommy Delk, Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) · 3 eps
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie · as Other Voices (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Movie
Gary the Rat
TV · 1 ep
D-Tox
Movie · as Reverend Jones
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Movie · as Clarence Brandley
Partners of the Heart
Movie · as Vivien Thomas (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Ron Carver · 111 eps
Space Cowboys
Movie · as Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Movie
The Acting Class
Movie · as Self
Boston Public
TV · as Walter Harrelson · 2 eps
Cookie's Fortune
Movie · as Otis Tucker
Love and Action in Chicago
Movie · as Eddie Jones
Ambushed
Movie · as Jerry Robinson
Blind Faith
Movie · as John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Movie · as Officer James Halloran
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Movie · as Officer James Halloran
Any Day Now
TV · 1 ep
The Wild Thornberrys
TV · as Makai (voice) · 1 ep
12 Angry Men
Movie · as Foreman
The View
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Preacher's Wife
Movie · as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
Movie · as Lucien P. Singer
The Tuskegee Airmen
Movie · as Lt. Glenn
The Last Supper
Movie · as Luke
Dangerous Minds
Movie · as Mr. George Grandey
Panther
Movie · as Bobby Seale
The Affair
Movie · as Travis Holloway
The Piano Lesson
Movie · as Lymon
Holy Matrimony
Movie · as Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Movie · as Thomas
ER
TV · as Russell Banfield · 1 ep
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Movie · as Jim
Beyond the Law
Movie · as Conroy Price
Percy & Thunder
Movie · as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Movie · as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Movie · as (voice)
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Movie · as Justice Butler
The Emperor's New Clothes
Movie · as Scribe (voice)
Picket Fences
TV · as Warren Grier · 2 eps
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Movie · as Reader
The Hunt for Red October
Movie · as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Law & Order
TV · as Mayor's Assistant, Benjamin Greer · 1 ep
American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Hamburger Hill
Movie · as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
thirtysomething
TV · 1 ep
First Affair
Movie · as Male Student #2
NOVA
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Lucien P. Singer · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Audience Member · 1 ep