Courtney B. Vance
Acting
- Born:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Girl Dad
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Lilo & Stitch
Death Wish
Grotesquerie
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Heist 88
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
61st Street
Amend: The Fight for America
Between the World and Me
Lovecraft Country
Project Power
Uncorked
The Photograph
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
On Broadway
The Tamron Hall Show
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Ben Is Back
The Groveland Four
Isle of Dogs
The Mummy
Genius
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Office Christmas Party
American Crime Story
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Terminator Genisys
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Masters of Sex
Graceland
Let It Shine
Scandal
Finding Your Roots
Joyful Noise
The Divide
Revenge
Final Destination 5
Hurricane Season
Extraordinary Measures
FlashForward
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Nothing But the Truth
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Closer
The Fight
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Gary the Rat
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Partners of the Heart
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
D-Tox
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Boston Public
Space Cowboys
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
The Acting Class
Love and Action in Chicago
Cookie's Fortune
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Blind Faith
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
The Wild Thornberrys
Any Day Now
Ambushed
12 Angry Men
The View
The Preacher's Wife
The Boys Next Door
The Affair
The Last Supper
The Tuskegee Airmen
Dangerous Minds
Panther
The Piano Lesson
ER
Holy Matrimony
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Percy & Thunder
Beyond the Law
The Adventures of Huck Finn
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Picket Fences
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
The Emperor's New Clothes
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Law & Order
The Hunt for Red October
American Experience
thirtysomething
Hamburger Hill
First Affair
NOVA
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards