Courtney B. Vance
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
Reader
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
The Hunt for Red October
Cooper
Holy Matrimony
Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
Hamburger Hill
Reverend Jones
D-Tox
Roger Hines
Space Cowboys
Reverend Henry Biggs
The Preacher's Wife
Lt. Glenn
The Tuskegee Airmen
Foreman
12 Angry Men
Otis Tucker
Cookie's Fortune
Marcus Temple
Extraordinary Measures
Luke
The Last Supper
Mr. George Grandey
Dangerous Minds
Jim
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Bobby Seale
Panther
Agent O'Hara
Nothing But the Truth
Pastor Dale
Joyful Noise
Delvin
The Divide
Cobra Bubbles
Lilo & Stitch
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Conroy Price
Beyond the Law
Lucien P. Singer
The Boys Next Door
Self (archive footage)
On Broadway
Travis Holloway
The Affair
Jerry Robinson
Ambushed
Jacob
Let It Shine
Jeremy Horne
Heist 88
John Williams
Blind Faith
(voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
(voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Percy & Thunder
Officer James Halloran
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Thomas
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Clarence Brandley
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Officer James Halloran
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Self - Narrator
The Groveland Four
Miles Dyson
Terminator Genisys
Self - Narrator
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Agent Block
Final Destination 5
Walter Davis
Office Christmas Party
Colonel Greenway
The Mummy
Narrator (voice)
Isle of Dogs
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Justice Butler
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Mr. Beeby
Ben Is Back
Narrator (voice)
The Fight
Lymon
The Piano Lesson
Eddie Jones
Love and Action in Chicago
Corey (segment "Fences")
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Captain Craine
Project Power
Other Voices (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Vivien Thomas (voice)
Partners of the Heart
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Louis Morton
The Photograph
Louis
Uncorked
Self
Between the World and Me
Mr. Randolph
Hurricane Season
Self
The Acting Class
Male Student #2
First Affair
Self - Host
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Death Wish
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
61
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-03-12
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
کورتنی بی. ونس