Courtney B. Vance
1 FOLLOWER • 41 CREDITS • MAR 12, 1960 • 64
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
Law & Order
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Closer
Scandal
ER
Masters of Sex
Finding Your Roots
Revenge
Amend: The Fight for America
Graceland
American Crime Story
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
First Affair
Isle of Dogs
Genius
The Hunt for Red October
Terminator Genisys
Lovecraft Country
Office Christmas Party
Let It Shine
Lilo & Stitch
Hamburger Hill
The Mummy
Project Power
Joyful Noise
Final Destination 5
The Tuskegee Airmen
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Grotesquerie
Dangerous Minds
Uncorked
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Heist 88
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Ambushed
61st Street
The Affair
Production Credits
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