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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
all 92
Movies 62
TV Shows 30
self 15
Voice 4
Producer 2
Narrator 2
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Grotesquerie (2024)
Heist 88 (2023)
Sherri (2022)
61st Street (2022)
Lovecraft Country (2020)
Project Power (2020)
Uncorked (2020)
The Photograph (2020)
On Broadway (2019)
Tamron Hall (2019)
Ben Is Back (2018)
The Groveland Four (2018)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
The Mummy (2017)
Genius (2017)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
Office Christmas Party (2016)
American Crime Story (2016)
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Masters of Sex (2013)
Graceland (2013)
Scandal (2012)
Joyful Noise (2012)
The Divide (2012)
Revenge (2011)
Final Destination 5 (2011)
Extraordinary Measures (2010)
Hurricane Season (2009)
FlashForward (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
State of Mind (2007)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
The Closer (2005)
The Fight (2005)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Partners of the Heart (2002)
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
D-Tox (2002)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Boston Public (2000)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Blind Faith (1998)
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998)
The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
Ambushed (1998)
12 Angry Men (1997)
The View (1997)
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
The Boys Next Door (1996)
The Affair (1995)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Dangerous Minds (1995)
Panther (1995)
ER (1994)
Percy & Thunder (1993)
Beyond the Law (1993)
In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992)
Law & Order (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
American Experience (1988)
Hamburger Hill (1987)
First Affair (1983)
NOVA (1974)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1960-03-12 (64 years old)
Birth NameCourtney Bernard Vance
Birth PlaceDetroit, United States
SpouseAngela Bassett
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States
AwardsTheatre World Award, Clarence Derwent Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
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