
Courtney B. Vance
1 FOLLOWER • 42 CREDITS • MAR 12, 1960 • 65
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.
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Known For

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Closer

Scandal

ER

Masters of Sex

The Wild Thornberrys

Finding Your Roots

Revenge

Amend: The Fight for America

Graceland

American Crime Story

First Affair

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Isle of Dogs

Genius

The Hunt for Red October

Terminator Genisys

Lovecraft Country

Office Christmas Party

Let It Shine

Lilo & Stitch

Law & Order

Hamburger Hill

Joyful Noise

The Mummy

Project Power

Final Destination 5

The Tuskegee Airmen

Grotesquerie

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Dangerous Minds

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Uncorked

The Affair

Heist 88

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

61st Street

Ambushed
Production Credits
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