Courtney B. Vance
Acting
Born 1960-03-12
Detroit, Michigan, USA
98 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Tony Awards 1
Clarence Derwent Awards 1
Theatre World Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 2016 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Won The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Tony Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 2013 Best Featured Actor in a Play Won
- 1991 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
- 1987 Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominated
Clarence Derwent Awards 1 won
- — Clarence Derwent Awards Won
Theatre World Award 1 won
- 1987 Theatre World Award Won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
Law & Order
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Sherri
The Closer
The Jennifer Hudson Show
NOVA
The View
ER
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Scandal
Golden Globe Awards
American Experience
Lilo & Stitch
Revenge
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
American Crime Story
Tamron Hall
The Wild Thornberrys
Masters of Sex
Boston Public
Genius
Terminator Genisys
The Mummy
Isle of Dogs
FlashForward
Picket Fences
Finding Your Roots
The Hunt for Red October
Final Destination 5
Grotesquerie
Graceland
Dangerous Minds
Lovecraft Country
Space Cowboys
12 Angry Men
Ben Is Back
Project Power
61st Street
Amend: The Fight for America
The Divide
D-Tox
Office Christmas Party
Let It Shine
Extraordinary Measures
Hamburger Hill
Beyond the Law
The Photograph
Nothing but the Truth
Joyful Noise
Holy Matrimony
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Preacher's Wife
The Last Supper
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Panther
The Tuskegee Airmen
Other credits
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Producing
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