Courtney B. Vance
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Cobra Bubbles
as Marshall Tryon
as Jeremy Horne
as Self - Guest
as Franklin Roberts
as Self
as Self
as Captain Craine
as Louis
as Louis Morton
as Self - Narrator
as George Freeman
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Mr. Beeby
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Colonel Greenway
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
as C.L. Franklin
as Walter Davis
as Johnnie Cochran
as Miles Dyson
as Self
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
as Sam Campbell
as Jacob
as Pastor Dale
as Delvin
as Clarence Parker
as Self
as Agent Jim Block
as Benjamin Brooks
as Marcus Temple
as Mr. Randolph
as Stanford Wedeck
as Self - Guest
as Agent O'Hara
as Corey (segment "Fences")
as Narrator (voice)
as Chief Tommy Delk
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Other Voices (voice)
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
as Clarence Brandley
as Reverend Jones
as Ron Carver
as Roger Hines
as Self
as Walter Harrelson
as Eddie Jones
as Otis Tucker
as Officer James Halloran
as John Williams
as Officer James Halloran
as Jerry Robinson
as Makai (voice)
as Foreman
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Reverend Henry Biggs
as Lucien P. Singer
as Travis Holloway
as Luke
as Lt. Glenn
as Mr. George Grandey
as Bobby Seale
as Lymon
as Cooper
as Russell Banfield
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
as Conroy Price
as Jim
as Justice Butler
as (voice)
as (voice)
as Reader
as Seaman Jones
as Mayor's Assistant
as Benjamin Greer
as Narrator (voice)
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
as Male Student #2
as Narrator
as Lucien P. Singer
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer