Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 12, 1960
Place of Birth:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Grotesquerie | Marshall Tryon |
| 2022 | Sherri | Self - Guest |
| 2022 | 61st Street | Franklin Roberts |
| 2022 | The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self |
| 2021 | Amend: The Fight for America | Self |
| 2020 | Lovecraft Country | George Freeman |
| 2019 | Tamron Hall | Self - Guest |
| 2017 | Genius | C.L. Franklin |
| 2016 | American Crime Story | Johnnie Cochran |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | Graceland | Sam Campbell |
| 2013 | Masters of Sex | Dr. Charles Hendricks |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots | Self |
| 2012 | Scandal | Clarence Parker |
| 2011 | Revenge | Benjamin Brooks |
| 2009 | FlashForward | Stanford Wedeck |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2005 | The Closer | Chief Tommy Delk |
| 2005 | The Closer | Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Ron Carver |
| 2000 | Boston Public | Walter Harrelson |
| 1998 | Any Day Now | |
| 1998 | The Wild Thornberrys | Makai (voice) |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self - Guest |
| 1994 | ER | Russell Banfield |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Mayor's Assistant |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Benjamin Greer |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | thirtysomething | |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Lucien P. Singer |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Audience Member |