Courtney B. Vance
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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Acted in
Lilo & Stitch
2025
as Cobra Bubbles
Grotesquerie
2024
as Marshall Tryon
Heist 88
2023
as Jeremy Horne
61st Street
2022
as Franklin Roberts
Between the World and Me
2020
as Self
Lovecraft Country
2020
as George Freeman
Project Power
2020
as Captain Craine
Uncorked
2020
as Louis
The Photograph
2020
as Louis Morton
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020
as Self - Narrator
On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Ben Is Back
2018
as Mr. Beeby
The Groveland Four
2018
as Self - Narrator
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Narrator (voice)
The Mummy
2017
as Colonel Greenway
Genius
2017
as C.L. Franklin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Office Christmas Party
2016
as Walter Davis
American Crime Story
2016
as Johnnie Cochran
Terminator Genisys
2015
as Miles Dyson
Masters of Sex
2013
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Graceland
2013
as Sam Campbell
Let It Shine
2012
as Jacob
Scandal
2012
as Clarence Parker
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Joyful Noise
2012
as Pastor Dale
The Divide
2012
as Delvin
Revenge
2011
as Benjamin Brooks
Final Destination 5
2011
as Agent Jim Block
Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Marcus Temple
Hurricane Season
2009
as Mr. Randolph
FlashForward
2009
as Stanford Wedeck
Nothing But the Truth
2008
as Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Corey (segment "Fences")
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Fight
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Partners of the Heart
2002
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002
as Clarence Brandley
D-Tox
2002
as Reverend Jones
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Ron Carver
Boston Public
2000
as Walter Harrelson
Space Cowboys
2000
as Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Acting Class
2000
as Self
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
as Eddie Jones
Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Otis Tucker
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
as Officer James Halloran
Blind Faith
1998
as John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Officer James Halloran
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
as Makai (voice)
Any Day Now
1998
Ambushed
1998
as Jerry Robinson
12 Angry Men
1997
as Foreman
The Preacher's Wife
1996
as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
1996
as Lucien P. Singer
The Affair
1995
as Travis Holloway
The Last Supper
1995
as Luke
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Lt. Glenn
Dangerous Minds
1995
as Mr. George Grandey
Panther
1995
as Bobby Seale
The Piano Lesson
1995
as Lymon
ER
1994
as Russell Banfield
Holy Matrimony
1994
as Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994
as Thomas
Percy & Thunder
1993
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Beyond the Law
1993
as Conroy Price
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as Jim
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
as Justice Butler
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
Law & Order
1990
as Mayor's Assistant
Law & Order
1990
as Benjamin Greer
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Seaman Jones
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
thirtysomething
1987
Hamburger Hill
1987
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
First Affair
1983
as Male Student #2
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Lucien P. Singer