1960-03-12 ( 65 years old ) in Detroit, Michigan, USA
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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Movies
Lilo & Stitch
2025-05-21
Heist 88
2023-10-01
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Project Power
2020-08-14
Uncorked
2020-03-27
The Photograph
2020-02-14
On Broadway
2019-10-12
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019-03-05
Ben Is Back
2018-12-05
The Groveland Four
2018-06-25
Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
The Mummy
2017-06-06
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017-04-22
Office Christmas Party
2016-11-25
Terminator Genisys
2015-06-23
Let It Shine
2012-06-15
Joyful Noise
2012-01-13
The Divide
2012-01-13
Final Destination 5
2011-08-12
Extraordinary Measures
2010-01-21
Hurricane Season
2009-12-08
Nothing But the Truth
2008-12-19
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
The Fight
2005-01-24
Partners of the Heart
2002-06-01
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002-04-21
D-Tox
2002-01-04
Space Cowboys
2000-08-04
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000-05-31
The Acting Class
2000-04-29
Love and Action in Chicago
1999-09-15
Cookie's Fortune
1999-03-24
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998-12-13
Blind Faith
1998-11-23
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998-10-04
Ambushed
1998-06-20
12 Angry Men
1997-08-17
The Preacher's Wife
1996-12-13
The Boys Next Door
1996-02-04
The Affair
1995-10-14
The Last Supper
1995-09-08
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995-08-25
Dangerous Minds
1995-08-11
Panther
1995-05-03
The Piano Lesson
1995-02-05
Holy Matrimony
1994-04-08
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994-02-19
Percy & Thunder
1993-09-07
Beyond the Law
1993-04-22
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993-04-02
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992-10-25
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992-06-10
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992-02-01
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991-01-01
The Hunt for Red October
1990-03-02
Hamburger Hill
1987-08-07
First Affair
1983-10-25
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