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.
98 acting credits
Acting · 98
Law & Order
1990
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
ER
1994
The Closer
2005
NOVA
1974
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Scandal
2012
The View
1997
American Experience
1988
Revenge
2011
Sherri
2022
Masters of Sex
2013
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Boston Public
2000
American Crime Story
2016
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
Tamron Hall
2019
Lilo & Stitch
2025
Genius
2017
Finding Your Roots
2012
thirtysomething
1987
FlashForward
2009
Terminator Genisys
2015
Picket Fences
1992
Graceland
2013
The Mummy
2017
Grotesquerie
2024
Any Day Now
1998
Lovecraft Country
2020
Final Destination 5
2011
The Hunt for Red October
1990
Isle of Dogs
2018
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
61st Street
2022
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
12 Angry Men
1997
Project Power
2020
Dangerous Minds
1995
Space Cowboys
2000
The Divide
2012
D-Tox
2002
Hamburger Hill
1987
Office Christmas Party
2016
Let It Shine
2012
The Last Supper
1995
Extraordinary Measures
2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
The Photograph
2020
Beyond the Law
1993
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Heist 88
2023
Gary the Rat
2003
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
The Preacher's Wife
1996
Ben Is Back
2018
Nothing But the Truth
2008
Joyful Noise
2012
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Hurricane Season
2010
Panther
1995
On Broadway
2019
Between the World and Me
2020
Blind Faith
1998
Holy Matrimony
1994
Cookie's Fortune
1999
Ambushed
1998
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
Uncorked
2020
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
The Affair
1995
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Acting Class
2000
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
The Boys Next Door
1996
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994
Partners of the Heart
2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002
Death Wish
2024
First Affair
1983
The Piano Lesson
1995
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
Percy & Thunder
1993
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
The Fight
2005
The Groveland Four
2018
Girl Dad
2026
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020
The Emperor's New Clothes
1992