Courtney B. Vance
ActingAlso Known As
Courtney Bernard 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.
Movies
(64 total)
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
Final Destination 5
as Agent Block
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Project Power
as Captain Craine
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
The Divide
as Delvin
D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
12 Angry Men
as Foreman
Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
Let It Shine
as Jacob
The Last Supper
as Luke
The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs
TV Shows
(37 total)
American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran
ER
as Russell Banfield
Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks
Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman
Law & Order
as Mayor's Assistant
Law & Order
as Benjamin Greer
Scandal
as Clarence Parker
FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck
Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Genius
as C.L. Franklin
The Wild Thornberrys
as Makai (voice)
Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon
NOVA
as Narrator
Graceland
as Sam Campbell