Courtney B. Vance
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-03-12 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2025)
Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
(2023)
Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
(2020)
Project Power
as Captain Craine
(2020)
The Photograph
as Louis Morton
(2020)
Uncorked
as Louis
(2020)
Between the World and Me
as Self
(2020)
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
(2019)
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Host
(2018)
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
(2018)
The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator
(2017)
The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
(2017)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
(2016)
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
(2015)
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
(2012)
The Divide
as Delvin
(2012)
Let It Shine
as Jacob
(2012)
Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
(2011)
Final Destination 5
as Agent Jim Block
(2010)
Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
(2009)
Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
(2008)
Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
(2006)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
(2005)
The Fight
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
(2003)
(2002)
D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
(2002)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
(2002)
Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
(2000)
Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
(2000)
(2000)
The Acting Class
as Self
(1999)
Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker
(1999)
Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones
(1998)
Blind Faith
as John Williams
(1998)
Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson
(1998)
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
(1998)
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
(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)
Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
(1995)
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn
(1995)
The Last Supper
as Luke
(1995)
Panther
as Bobby Seale
(1995)
The Affair
as Travis Holloway
(1995)
The Piano Lesson
as Lymon
(1994)
Holy Matrimony
as Cooper
(1994)
(1993)
Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price
(1993)
(1993)
Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
(1992)
In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
(1992)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
(1992)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
(1991)
(1990)
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
(1987)
Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
(1983)
First Affair
as Male Student #2
Crew
(2023)
Heist 88
Executive Producer