Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 12, 1960
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
98 titles
Courtney B. Vance
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.
Known For
Filmography
Girl Dad
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Self
Lilo & Stitch
Cobra Bubbles
Death Wish
Pilot (voice)
Grotesquerie
Marshall Tryon
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Zeus
Heist 88
Jeremy Horne
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
Sherri
Self - Guest
61st Street
Franklin Roberts
Amend: The Fight for America
Self
Between the World and Me
Self
Lovecraft Country
George Freeman
Project Power
Captain Craine
Uncorked
Louis
The Photograph
Louis Morton
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Self - Narrator
On Broadway
Self (archive footage)
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Host
Ben Is Back
Mr. Beeby
The Groveland Four
Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs
Narrator (voice)
The Mummy
Colonel Greenway
Genius
C.L. Franklin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Office Christmas Party
Walter Davis
American Crime Story
Johnnie Cochran
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Terminator Genisys
Miles Dyson
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Masters of Sex
Dr. Charles Hendricks
Graceland
Sam Campbell
Let It Shine
Jacob
Scandal
Clarence Parker
Finding Your Roots
Self
The Divide
Delvin
Joyful Noise
Pastor Dale
Revenge
Benjamin Brooks
Final Destination 5
Agent Block
Hurricane Season
Mr. Randolph
Extraordinary Measures
Marcus Temple
FlashForward
Stanford Wedeck
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Nothing but the Truth
Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Corey (segment "Fences")
The Closer
Chief Tommy Delk
The Fight
Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Gary the Rat