Courtney B. Vance
Acting
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.
Media of
Courtney B. Vance
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Filmography of
Courtney B. Vance
Cobra Bubbles
... 2025
Jeremy Horne
... 2023
... 2020
Captain Craine
... 2020
Louis
... 2020
Louis Morton
... 2020
Self - Narrator
... 2020
Self (archive footage)
... 2019
Self - Host
... 2019
Mr. Beeby
... 2018
Self - Narrator
... 2018
Narrator (voice)
... 2018
Colonel Greenway
... 2017
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
... 2017
Walter Davis
... 2016
Miles Dyson
... 2015
Jacob
... 2012
Pastor Dale
... 2012
Delvin
... 2012
Agent Block
... 2011
Mr. Randolph
... 2010
Marcus Temple
... 2010
Agent O'Hara
... 2008
Corey (segment "Fences")
... 2006
Narrator (voice)
... 2005
Other Voices (voice)
... 2004
Vivien Thomas (voice)
... 2002
Clarence Brandley
... 2002
Reverend Jones
... 2002
Roger Hines
... 2000
Self
... 2000
Eddie Jones
... 1999
Otis Tucker
... 1999
Officer James Halloran
... 1998
John Williams
... 1998
Officer James Halloran
... 1998
Jerry Robinson
... 1998
Foreman
... 1997
Reverend Henry Biggs
... 1996
Lucien P. Singer
... 1996
Travis Holloway
... 1995
Luke
... 1995
Lt. Glenn
... 1995
Mr. George Grandey
... 1995
Bobby Seale
... 1995
Lymon
... 1995
Cooper
... 1994
... 1994
Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
... 1993
Conroy Price
... 1993
... 1993
Justice Butler
... 1992
(voice)
... 1992
... 1992
... 1991
Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
... 1990
Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
... 1987
Male Student #2
... 1983