Courtney B. Vance
57 movies · 25 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 12, 1960 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Also 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.
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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
Courtney B. Vance: movies and TV shows
Acting (82)
- 2026
- 2025 Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
- 2024 Death Wish
as Pilot (voice)
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023 Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
- 2022
- 2020
- 2020 Project Power
as Captain Craine
- 2020 Uncorked
as Louis
- 2020 The Photograph
as Louis Morton
- 2018 Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
- 2018 Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
- 2017
- 2017 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
- 2016 Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
- 2016
- 2015 Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012 Let It Shine
as Jacob
- 2012
- 2012 Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
- 2012 The Divide
as Delvin
- 2011
- 2011 Final Destination 5
as Agent Block
- 2010 Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
- 2010 Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
- 2009
- 2008 Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
- 2005
- 2005 The Fight
as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
- 2002 Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
- 2002 D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
- 2001
- 2000
- 2000 Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
- 2000
- 1999 Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones
- 1999 Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker
- 1998 Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
- 1998 Blind Faith
as John Williams
- 1998 Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
- 1998
- 1998
- 1998 Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson
- 1997 12 Angry Men
as Foreman
- 1996 The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs
- 1996 The Boys Next Door
as Lucien P. Singer
- 1995 The Affair
as Travis Holloway
- 1995 The Last Supper
as Luke
- 1995 The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn
- 1995 Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
- 1995 Panther
as Bobby Seale
- 1995 The Piano Lesson
as Lymon
- 1994
- 1994 Holy Matrimony
as Cooper
- 1994
- 1993 Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
- 1993 Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price
- 1993 The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Jim
- 1992 In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
- 1992
- 1992 Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
- 1992 Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
- 1992 The Emperor's New Clothes
as Scribe (voice)
- 1991 Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
- 1990
- 1990 The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
- 1988
- 1987
- 1987 Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
- 1983 First Affair
as Male Student #2
- 1974
- 1951
Behind the camera (2)
- 2024
- 2023 Heist 88
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (17)
- 2026
- 2022 Sherri
1 episode
- 2022 The Jennifer Hudson Show
2 episodes
- 2021 Amend: The Fight for America
2 episodes
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019 The Tamron Hall Show
1 episode
- 2019
- 2018
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2012 Finding Your Roots
1 episode
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2000
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode