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.
Fotos
Filmes (64)
Girl Dad
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Self
Lilo & Stitch
2025 · Cobra Bubbles
Death Wish
2024 · Pilot (voice)
O Roubo de 88
2023 · Jeremy Horne, Executive Producer
Between the World and Me
2020 · Self
Power
2020 · Captain Craine
Notas de Rebeldia
2020 · Louis
A Fotografia
2020 · Louis Morton
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020 · Self - Narrator
On Broadway
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019 · Self - Host
O Retorno de Ben
2018 · Mr. Beeby
The Groveland Four
2018 · Self - Narrator
Ilha dos Cachorros
2018 · Narrator (voice)
A Múmia
2017 · Colonel Greenway
A Vida Imortal de Henrietta Lacks
2017 · Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
A Última Ressaca do Ano
2016 · Walter Davis
O Exterminador do Futuro: Gênesis
2015 · Miles Dyson
Vou Brilhar!
2012 · Jacob
Canção do Coração
2012 · Pastor Dale
O Abrigo
2012 · Delvin
Premonição 5
2011 · Agent Block
Temporada de Furacão
2010 · Mr. Randolph
Decisões Extremas
2010 · Marcus Temple
Faces da Verdade
2008 · Agent O'Hara
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Corey (segment "Fences")
The Fight
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Partners of the Heart
2002 · Vivien Thomas (voice)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002 · Clarence Brandley
D-Tox
2002 · Reverend Jones
Cowboys do Espaço
2000 · Roger Hines
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Acting Class
2000 · Self
Amor e Ação em Chicago
1999 · Eddie Jones
A Fortuna de Cookie
1999 · Otis Tucker
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998 · Officer James Halloran
Blind Faith
1998 · John Williams
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998 · Officer James Halloran
Emboscada
1998 · Jerry Robinson
12 Homens e uma Sentença
1997 · Foreman
Um Anjo em Minha Vida
1996 · Reverend Henry Biggs
The Boys Next Door
1996 · Lucien P. Singer
The Affair
1995 · Travis Holloway
O Último Jantar
1995 · Luke
Prova de Fogo
1995 · Lt. Glenn
Mentes Perigosas
1995 · Mr. George Grandey
Panteras Negras
1995 · Bobby Seale
The Piano Lesson
1995 · Lymon
Santo Matrimônio
1994 · Cooper
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994 · Thomas
Percy & Thunder
1993 · Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
À Sombra de um Disfarce
1993 · Conroy Price
As Aventuras de Huck Finn
1993 · Jim
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992 · Justice Butler
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992 · (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992 · (voice)
The Emperor's New Clothes
1992 · Scribe (voice)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991 · Reader
A Caçada ao Outubro Vermelho
1990 · Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Hamburger Hill
1987 · Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
First Affair
1983 · Male Student #2
Séries (34)
Grotesquerie
2024 · Marshall Tryon, Executive Producer
Percy Jackson e os Olimpianos
2023 · Zeus
Sherri
2022 · Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self
61st Street
2022 · Franklin Roberts
EUA: A Luta pela Liberdade
2021 · Self
Territorio Lovecraft
2020 · George Freeman
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Genius
2017 · C.L. Franklin
American Crime Story
2016 · Johnnie Cochran
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Masters of Sex
2013 · Dr. Charles Hendricks
Segredos do Paraíso
2013 · Sam Campbell
Scandal: Os Bastidores do Poder
2012 · Clarence Parker
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
Revenge
2011 · Benjamin Brooks
Flashforward: Linha do Tempo
2009 · Stanford Wedeck
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Divisão Criminal
2005 · Chief Tommy Delk, Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gary the Rat
2003
Lei & Ordem: Crimes Premeditados
2001 · Ron Carver
Boston Public
2000 · Walter Harrelson
Os Thornberrys
1998 · Makai (voice)
Any Day Now
1998
The View
1997 · Self, Self - Guest
ER: Plantão Médico
1994 · Russell Banfield
Picket Fences
1992 · Warren Grier
Lei & Ordem
1990 · Mayor's Assistant, Benjamin Greer
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
thirtysomething
1987
NOVA
1974 · Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lucien P. Singer
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Audience Member