Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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The Hunt for Red October | Seaman Jones | 1990 |
Holy Matrimony | Cooper | 1994 |
D-Tox | Reverend Jones | 2002 |
Hamburger Hill | Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson | 1987 |
Space Cowboys | Roger Hines | 2000 |
The Preacher's Wife | Reverend Henry Biggs | 1996 |
The Tuskegee Airmen | Lt. Glenn | 1995 |
12 Angry Men | Foreman | 1997 |
The Last Supper | Luke | 1995 |
Cookie's Fortune | Otis Tucker | 1999 |
Dangerous Minds | Mr. George Grandey | 1995 |
Extraordinary Measures | Marcus Temple | 2010 |
The Adventures of Huck Finn | Jim | 1993 |
Panther | Bobby Seale | 1995 |
Nothing But the Truth | Agent O'Hara | 2008 |
Joyful Noise | Pastor Dale | 2012 |
The Divide | Delvin | 2012 |
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003 | |
Beyond the Law | Conroy Price | 1993 |
The Boys Next Door | Lucien P. Singer | 1996 |
The Affair | Travis Holloway | 1995 |
Ambushed | Jerry Robinson | 1998 |
Let It Shine | Jacob | 2012 |
Blind Faith | John Williams | 1998 |
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet | Officer James Halloran | 1998 |
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad | Thomas | 1994 |
In the Line of Duty: Street War | Justice Butler | 1992 |
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story | Clarence Brandley | 2002 |
Naked City: A Killer Christmas | Officer James Halloran | 1998 |
Terminator Genisys | Miles Dyson | 2015 |
Final Destination 5 | Agent Block | 2011 |
Office Christmas Party | Walter Davis | 2016 |
The Mummy | Colonel Greenway | 2017 |
Isle of Dogs | Narrator (voice) | 2018 |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Sir Lord Keenan Coefield | 2017 |
Ben Is Back | Mr. Beeby | 2018 |
The Fight | Narrator (voice) | 2005 |
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Corey (segment "Fences") | 2006 |
Love and Action in Chicago | Eddie Jones | 1999 |
The Piano Lesson | Lymon | 1995 |
Project Power | Captain Craine | 2020 |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004 |
Partners of the Heart | Vivien Thomas (voice) | 2002 |
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story | 2000 | |
The Photograph | Louis Morton | 2020 |
Uncorked | Louis | 2020 |
Between the World and Me | Self | 2020 |
Hurricane Season | Mr. Randolph | 2009 |
The Acting Class | Self | 2000 |
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers | Reader | 1991 |
On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes | (voice) | 1992 |
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems | (voice) | 1992 |
Percy & Thunder | Wayne 'Thunder' Carter | 1993 |
The Groveland Four | Self - Narrator | 2018 |
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
Lilo & Stitch | Cobra Bubbles | 1970 |
Heist 88 | Jeremy Horne | 2023 | Series | Cast | Year |
Law & Order | Mayor's Assistant | 1990 |
ER | Russell Banfield | 1994 |
FlashForward | Stanford Wedeck | 2009 |
Boston Public | Walter Harrelson | 2000 |
thirtysomething | 1987 | |
The View | Self | 1997 |
Any Day Now | 1998 | |
NOVA | Narrator | 1974 |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Lucien P. Singer | 1951 |
American Crime Story | Johnnie Cochran | 2016 |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Ron Carver | 2001 |
Graceland | Sam Campbell | 2013 |
Revenge | Benjamin Brooks | 2011 |
American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988 |
Lovecraft Country | George Freeman | 2020 |
61st Street | Franklin Roberts | 2022 |
Genius | C.L. Franklin | 2017 |
The Closer | Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2005 |
The Closer | Chief Tommy Delk | 2005 |
Finding Your Roots | Self | 2012 |
The View | Self - Guest | 1997 |
The Wild Thornberrys | Makai (voice) | 1998 |
Tamron Hall | Self - Guest | 2019 |
Law & Order | Benjamin Greer | 1990 |
Masters of Sex | Dr. Charles Hendricks | 2013 |
Sherri | Self - Guest | 2022 |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014 |
Grotesquerie | 1970 | |
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | 2009 |
Scandal | Clarence Parker | 2012 |
Amend: The Fight for America | Self | 2021 |