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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2025 · Lilo & Stitch as Cobra Bubbles
- 2024 · Grotesquerie as Marshall Tryon
- 2023 · Heist 88 as Jeremy Horne
- 2022 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2022 · 61st Street as Franklin Roberts
- 2021 · Amend: The Fight for America as Self
- 2020 · Between the World and Me as Self
- 2020 · Lovecraft Country as George Freeman
- 2020 · Project Power as Captain Craine
- 2020 · Uncorked as Louis
- 2020 · The Photograph as Louis Morton
- 2020 · Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story as Self - Narrator
- 2019 · On Broadway as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Ben Is Back as Mr. Beeby
- 2018 · The Groveland Four as Self - Narrator
- 2018 · Isle of Dogs as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Mummy as Colonel Greenway
- 2017 · Genius as C.L. Franklin
- 2017 · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
- 2016 · Office Christmas Party as Walter Davis
- 2016 · American Crime Story as Johnnie Cochran
- 2015 · Terminator Genisys as Miles Dyson
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2013 · Masters of Sex as Dr. Charles Hendricks
- 2013 · Graceland as Sam Campbell
- 2012 · Let It Shine as Jacob
- 2012 · Scandal as Clarence Parker
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2012 · The Divide as Delvin
- 2012 · Joyful Noise as Pastor Dale
- 2011 · Revenge as Benjamin Brooks
- 2011 · Final Destination 5 as Agent Jim Block
- 2010 · Extraordinary Measures as Marcus Temple
- 2009 · Hurricane Season as Mr. Randolph
- 2009 · FlashForward as Stanford Wedeck
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Nothing But the Truth as Agent O'Hara
- 2006 · The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Corey (segment "Fences")
- 2005 · The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk
- 2005 · The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2005 · The Fight as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003 · Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives as
- 2002 · Partners of the Heart as Vivien Thomas (voice)
- 2002 · Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story as Clarence Brandley
- 2002 · D-Tox as Reverend Jones
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Ron Carver
- 2000 · Boston Public as Walter Harrelson
- 2000 · Space Cowboys as Roger Hines
- 2000 · The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story as
- 2000 · The Acting Class as Self
- 1999 · Love and Action in Chicago as Eddie Jones
- 1999 · Cookie's Fortune as Otis Tucker
- 1998 · Naked City: A Killer Christmas as Officer James Halloran
- 1998 · Blind Faith as John Williams
- 1998 · Naked City: Justice with a Bullet as Officer James Halloran
- 1998 · The Wild Thornberrys as Makai (voice)
- 1998 · Any Day Now as
- 1998 · Ambushed as Jerry Robinson
- 1997 · 12 Angry Men as Foreman
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1996 · The Preacher's Wife as Reverend Henry Biggs
- 1996 · The Boys Next Door as Lucien P. Singer
- 1995 · The Affair as Travis Holloway
- 1995 · The Last Supper as Luke
- 1995 · The Tuskegee Airmen as Lt. Glenn
- 1995 · Dangerous Minds as Mr. George Grandey
- 1995 · Panther as Bobby Seale
- 1995 · The Piano Lesson as Lymon
- 1994 · ER as Russell Banfield
- 1994 · Holy Matrimony as Cooper
- 1994 · Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad as Thomas
- 1993 · Percy & Thunder as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
- 1993 · Beyond the Law as Conroy Price
- 1993 · The Adventures of Huck Finn as Jim
- 1992 · In the Line of Duty: Street War as Justice Butler
- 1992 · Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems as (voice)
- 1992 · Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes as (voice)
- 1991 · Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers as Reader
- 1990 · Law & Order as Mayor's Assistant
- 1990 · Law & Order as Benjamin Greer
- 1990 · The Hunt for Red October as Seaman Jones
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 · thirtysomething as
- 1987 · Hamburger Hill as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
- 1983 · First Affair as Male Student #2
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lucien P. Singer