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.
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All Credits (97)
Girl Dad
as Unknown
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
Death Wish
as Pilot (voice)
Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Zeus
Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
Sherri
as Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
61st Street
as Franklin Roberts
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
Between the World and Me
as Self
Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman
Project Power
as Captain Craine
Uncorked
as Louis
The Photograph
as Louis Morton
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
The Tamron Hall Show
as Self - Guest
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
Genius
as C.L. Franklin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Graceland
as Sam Campbell
Let It Shine
as Jacob
Scandal
as Clarence Parker
Finding Your Roots
as Self
Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
The Divide
as Delvin
Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks
Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Fight
as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Gary the Rat
as Unknown
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
as Unknown
Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
Boston Public
as Walter Harrelson
Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as Unknown
The Acting Class
as Self
Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones
Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
Blind Faith
as John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
The Wild Thornberrys
as Makai (voice)
Any Day Now
as Unknown
Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson
12 Angry Men
as Foreman
The View
as Self
The View
as Self - Guest
The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
as Lucien P. Singer
The Affair
as Travis Holloway
The Last Supper
as Luke
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn
Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
Panther
as Bobby Seale
The Piano Lesson
as Lymon
ER
as Russell Banfield
Holy Matrimony
as Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
as Thomas
Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Jim
In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
Picket Fences
as Warren Grier
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Scribe (voice)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
Law & Order
as Mayor's Assistant
Law & Order
as Benjamin Greer
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
thirtysomething
as Unknown
Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
First Affair
as Male Student #2
NOVA
as Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lucien P. Singer
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member