Courtney B. Vance

Known for ActingBorn 1960-03-12 (age 66)Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Groveland Four

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

On Broadway

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Between the World and Me

Isle of Dogs

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Percy & Thunder

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

The Closer

ER

American Crime Story

Genius

12 Angry Men

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Revenge

Boston Public

The Piano Lesson

Grotesquerie

Any Day Now

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Lilo & Stitch

The Fight

Graceland

Scandal

Picket Fences

Amend: The Fight for America

The Hunt for Red October

Lovecraft Country

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Masters of Sex

Law & Order

Let It Shine

FlashForward

The Tuskegee Airmen

Gary the Rat

Partners of the Heart

Nothing But the Truth

The Wild Thornberrys

Dangerous Minds

Heist 88

The Emperor's New Clothes

NOVA

Ben Is Back

Hurricane Season

The Boys Next Door

Finding Your Roots