Courtney B. Vance

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1960-03-12

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	First Affair	Male Student #2	10
2	1987	Hamburger Hill	Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson	66
3	1990	The Hunt for Red October	Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)	74
4	1991	Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers	Reader	57
5	1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes	(voice)	0
6	1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems	(voice)	0
7	1992	In the Line of Duty: Street War	Justice Butler	50
8	1993	The Adventures of Huck Finn	Jim	62
9	1993	Beyond the Law	Conroy Price	62
10	1993	Percy & Thunder	Wayne 'Thunder' Carter	0
11	1994	Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad	Thomas	70
12	1994	Holy Matrimony	Cooper	53
13	1995	The Piano Lesson	Lymon	72
14	1995	Panther	Bobby Seale	62
15	1995	Dangerous Minds	Mr. George Grandey	70
16	1995	The Tuskegee Airmen	Lt. Glenn	71
17	1995	The Last Supper	Luke	66
18	1995	The Affair	Travis Holloway	38
19	1996	The Boys Next Door	Lucien P. Singer	66
20	1996	The Preacher's Wife	Reverend Henry Biggs	58
21	1997	12 Angry Men	Foreman	77
22	1998	Ambushed	Jerry Robinson	49
23	1998	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet	Officer James Halloran	37
24	1998	Blind Faith	John Williams	64
25	1998	Naked City: A Killer Christmas	Officer James Halloran	27
26	1999	Cookie's Fortune	Otis Tucker	64
27	1999	Love and Action in Chicago	Eddie Jones	50
28	2000	The Acting Class	Self	55
29	2000	The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story		0
30	2000	Space Cowboys	Roger Hines	64
31	2002	D-Tox	Reverend Jones	56
32	2002	Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story	Clarence Brandley	0
33	2002	Partners of the Heart	Vivien Thomas (voice)	60
34	2003	Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		48
35	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)	71
36	2005	The Fight	Narrator (voice)	70
37	2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Corey (segment "Fences")	0
38	2008	Nothing But the Truth	Agent O'Hara	69
39	2009	Hurricane Season	Mr. Randolph	67
40	2010	Extraordinary Measures	Marcus Temple	63
41	2011	Final Destination 5	Agent Block	61
42	2012	Joyful Noise	Pastor Dale	64
43	2012	The Divide	Delvin	59
44	2012	Let It Shine	Jacob	69
45	2015	Terminator Genisys	Miles Dyson	59
46	2016	Office Christmas Party	Walter Davis	57
47	2017	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Sir Lord Keenan Coefield	65
48	2017	The Mummy	Colonel Greenway	55
49	2018	Isle of Dogs	Narrator (voice)	79
50	2018	The Groveland Four	Self - Narrator	90
51	2018	Ben Is Back	Mr. Beeby	66
52	2019	Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America	Self - Host	0
53	2019	On Broadway	Self (archive footage)	87
54	2020	Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story	Self - Narrator	0
55	2020	The Photograph	Louis Morton	64
56	2020	Uncorked	Louis	61
57	2020	Project Power	Captain Craine	64
58	2020	Between the World and Me	Self	79
59	2023	Heist 88	Jeremy Horne	67
60	2025	Lilo & Stitch	Cobra Bubbles	71

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	72
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Lucien P. Singer	86
3	1974	NOVA	Narrator	70
4	1987	thirtysomething		63
5	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
6	1990	Law & Order	Mayor's Assistant	74
7	1990	Law & Order	Benjamin Greer	74
8	1994	ER	Russell Banfield	78
9	1997	The View	Self	45
10	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
11	1998	Any Day Now		74
12	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Makai (voice)	69
13	2000	Boston Public	Walter Harrelson	76
14	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Ron Carver	76
15	2005	The Closer	Chief Tommy Delk	79
16	2005	The Closer	Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)	79
17	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
18	2009	FlashForward	Stanford Wedeck	70
19	2011	Revenge	Benjamin Brooks	76
20	2012	Finding Your Roots	Self	62
21	2012	Scandal	Clarence Parker	71
22	2013	Graceland	Sam Campbell	71
23	2013	Masters of Sex	Dr. Charles Hendricks	71
24	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
25	2016	American Crime Story	Johnnie Cochran	76
26	2017	Genius	C.L. Franklin	77
27	2019	Tamron Hall	Self - Guest	51
28	2020	Lovecraft Country	George Freeman	72
29	2021	Amend: The Fight for America	Self	71
30	2022	61st Street	Franklin Roberts	67
31	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
32	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
33	2024	Grotesquerie	Marshall Tryon	73

Courtney B. Vance

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