Courtney B. Vance
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.
Born: 12 March 1960
Played In
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
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
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
Joyful Noise
Pastor Dale
The Divide
Delvin
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 Closer
Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Fight
Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Gary the Rat
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Partners of the Heart
Vivien Thomas (voice)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Clarence Brandley
D-Tox
Reverend Jones
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Ron Carver
Boston Public
Walter Harrelson
Space Cowboys
Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
The Acting Class
Self
Love and Action in Chicago
Eddie Jones
Cookie's Fortune
Otis Tucker
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Officer James Halloran
Blind Faith
John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Officer James Halloran
The Wild Thornberrys
Makai (voice)
Any Day Now
Ambushed
Jerry Robinson
12 Angry Men
Foreman
The View
Self
The View
Self - Guest
The Preacher's Wife
Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
Lucien P. Singer
The Affair
Travis Holloway
The Last Supper
Luke
The Tuskegee Airmen
Lt. Glenn
Dangerous Minds
Mr. George Grandey
Panther
Bobby Seale
The Piano Lesson
Lymon
ER
Russell Banfield
Holy Matrimony
Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Thomas
Percy & Thunder
Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Beyond the Law
Conroy Price
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Jim
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Justice Butler
Picket Fences
Warren Grier
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
(voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
(voice)
The Emperor's New Clothes
Scribe (voice)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Reader
Law & Order
Mayor's Assistant
Law & Order
Benjamin Greer
The Hunt for Red October
Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
thirtysomething
Hamburger Hill
Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
First Affair
Male Student #2
NOVA
Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lucien P. Singer
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member