Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance

  • Birthday: 1960-03-12
  • 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

12 Angry Men

1997

As Foreman

The Affair

1995

As Travis Holloway

Ambushed

1998

As Jerry Robinson

Blind Faith

1998

As John Williams

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

2002

As Clarence Brandley

The Fight

2005

As Narrator (voice)

Love and Action in Chicago

1999

As Eddie Jones

The Groveland Four

2018

As Self - Narrator

Heist 88

2023

As Jeremy Horne

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1998

As Officer James Halloran

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998

As Officer James Halloran

Uncorked

2020

As Louis

Percy & Thunder

1993

As Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

The Preacher's Wife

1996

As Reverend Henry Biggs

The Last Supper

1995

As Luke

Dangerous Minds

1995

As Mr. George Grandey

In the Line of Duty: Street War

1992

As Justice Butler

Ben Is Back

2018

As Mr. Beeby

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995

As Lt. Glenn

Extraordinary Measures

2010

As Marcus Temple

Panther

1995

As Bobby Seale

The Divide

2012

As Delvin

Beyond the Law

1993

As Conroy Price

Final Destination 5

2011

As Agent Block

Joyful Noise

2012

As Pastor Dale

The Boys Next Door

1996

As Lucien P. Singer

The Mummy

2017

As Colonel Greenway

Project Power

2020

As Captain Craine

Hamburger Hill

1987

As Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

The Piano Lesson

1995

As Lymon

Partners of the Heart

2002

As Vivien Thomas (voice)

Lilo & Stitch

0000

As Cobra Bubbles

Holy Matrimony

1994

As Cooper

D-Tox

2002

As Reverend Jones

Cookie's Fortune

1999

As Otis Tucker

Let It Shine

2012

As Jacob

Office Christmas Party

2016

As Walter Davis

Space Cowboys

2000

As Roger Hines

Nothing But the Truth

2008

As Agent O'Hara

Terminator Genisys

2015

As Miles Dyson

The Hunt for Red October

1990

As Ronald Jones

The Photograph

2020

As Louis Morton

Hurricane Season

2009

As Mr. Randolph

The Acting Class

2000

As Self

Isle of Dogs

2018

As Narrator (voice)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

As Corey (segment "Fences")

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017

As Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

On Broadway

2019

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Heist 88

2023

As Executive Producer

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