Courtney B. Vance

Birthday:
03/12/1960
Place of birth:
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.

Credits

Girl Dad (2026)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause (2026)
as Self
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
as Cobra Bubbles
Death Wish (2024)
as Pilot (voice)
Heist 88 (2023)
as Jeremy Horne
Between the World and Me (2020)
as Self
Project Power (2020)
as Captain Craine
Uncorked (2020)
as Louis
The Photograph (2020)
as Louis Morton
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story (2020)
as Self - Narrator
On Broadway (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America (2019)
as Self - Host
Ben Is Back (2018)
as Mr. Beeby
The Groveland Four (2018)
as Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
The Mummy (2017)
as Colonel Greenway
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Office Christmas Party (2016)
as Walter Davis
Terminator Genisys (2015)
as Miles Dyson
Let It Shine (2012)
as Jacob
The Divide (2012)
as Delvin
Joyful Noise (2012)
as Pastor Dale
Final Destination 5 (2011)
as Agent Block
Hurricane Season (2010)
as Mr. Randolph
Extraordinary Measures (2010)
as Marcus Temple
Nothing but the Truth (2008)
as Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Corey (segment "Fences")
The Fight (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
as Other Voices (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
Partners of the Heart (2002)
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
as Clarence Brandley
D-Tox (2002)
as Reverend Jones
Space Cowboys (2000)
as Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000)
The Acting Class (2000)
as Self
Love and Action in Chicago (1999)
as Eddie Jones
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
as Otis Tucker
Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
as Officer James Halloran
Blind Faith (1998)
as John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998)
as Officer James Halloran
Ambushed (1998)
as Jerry Robinson
12 Angry Men (1998)
as Foreman
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door (1996)
as Lucien P. Singer
The Affair (1995)
as Travis Holloway
The Last Supper (1995)
as Luke
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
as Lt. Glenn
Dangerous Minds (1995)
as Mr. George Grandey
Panther (1995)
as Bobby Seale
The Piano Lesson (1995)
as Lymon
Holy Matrimony (1994)
as Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)
as Thomas
Percy & Thunder (1993)
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Beyond the Law (1993)
as Conroy Price
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
as Jim
In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992)
as Justice Butler
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems (1992)
as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes (1992)
as (voice)
The Emperor's New Clothes (1992)
as Scribe (voice)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991)
as Reader
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Hamburger Hill (1987)
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
First Affair (1983)
as Male Student #2
Heist 88
Executive Producer

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