Courtney B. Vance
Age: N/A | From: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: کورتنی بی. ونس , Courtney Bernard Vance
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 47
TV Involvements: 19
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order
(1990) Benjamin Greer
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(2001) Ron Carver
Boston Public
(2000) Walter Harrelson
The Closer
(2005) Chief Tommy Delk
Terminator Genisys
(2015) Miles Dyson
NOVA
(1974) Narrator
American Experience
(1988) Narrator (voice)
ER
(1994) Russell BanfieldActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Jeremy Horne | |
| 2022 | Self - Guest | |
| Franklin Roberts | ||
| 2021 | N/A | |
| 2020 | Self | |
| George Freeman | ||
| Captain Craine | ||
| Louis | ||
| Louis Morton | ||
| Self - Narrator | ||
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2018 | Mr. Beeby | |
| Self - Narrator | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2017 | Colonel Greenway | |
| C.L. Franklin | ||
| Sir Lord Keenan Coefield | ||
| 2016 | Walter Davis | |
| Johnnie Cochran | ||
| 2015 | Miles Dyson | |
| 2013 | Dr. Charles Hendricks | |
| Sam Campbell | ||
| 2012 | Jacob | |
| Self | ||
| Delvin | ||
| Pastor Dale | ||
| 2011 | Benjamin Brooks | |
| Agent Block | ||
| 2010 | Marcus Temple | |
| 2009 | Mr. Randolph | |
| Stanford Wedeck | ||
| 2008 | Agent O'Hara | |
| 2006 | Corey (segment "Fences") | |
| 2005 | Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Chief Tommy Delk | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2004 | Other Voices (voice) | |
| 2003 | N/A | |
| 2002 | Vivien Thomas (voice) | |
| Clarence Brandley | ||
| Reverend Jones | ||
| 2001 | Ron Carver | |
| 2000 | Walter Harrelson | |
| Roger Hines | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 1999 | Eddie Jones | |
| Otis Tucker | ||
| 1998 | Officer James Halloran | |
| John Williams | ||
| Officer James Halloran | ||
| Makai (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jerry Robinson | ||
| 1997 | Foreman | |
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1996 | Reverend Henry Biggs | |
| Lucien P. Singer | ||
| 1995 | Travis Holloway | |
| Luke | ||
| Lt. Glenn | ||
| Mr. George Grandey | ||
| Bobby Seale | ||
| Lymon | ||
| 1994 | Russell Banfield | |
| Cooper | ||
| Thomas | ||
| 1993 | Wayne 'Thunder' Carter | |
| Conroy Price | ||
| Jim | ||
| 1992 | (voice) | |
| Justice Butler | ||
| (voice) | ||
| 1991 | Reader | |
| 1990 | Mayor's Assistant | |
| Benjamin Greer | ||
| Ronald Jones | ||
| 1988 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1987 | N/A | |
| Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson | ||
| 1974 | Narrator | |
| 1951 | Lucien P. Singer | |
| Cobra Bubbles | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |