Courtney B. Vance
Known for Acting · 98 credits
- Born
- 1960-03-12 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Also known as
- Courtney Bernard Vance
Biography
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.
Known For
Law & Order
1990
as Mayor's Assistant / Benjamin Greer
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Ron Carver
ER
1994
as Russell Banfield
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk / Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
TV Shows (34)
Law & Order
1990
as Mayor's Assistant / Benjamin Greer
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Ron Carver
ER
1994
as Russell Banfield
The Closer
2005
as Chief Tommy Delk / Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Audience Member
Scandal
2012
as Clarence Parker
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Revenge
2011
as Benjamin Brooks
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest
Masters of Sex
2013
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Boston Public
2000
as Walter Harrelson
American Crime Story
2016
as Johnnie Cochran
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
as Makai (voice)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
as Zeus
thirtysomething
1987
Genius
2017
as C.L. Franklin
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
FlashForward
2009
as Stanford Wedeck
Picket Fences
1992
as Warren Grier
Graceland
2013
as Sam Campbell
Any Day Now
1998
Grotesquerie
2024
as Marshall Tryon
Lovecraft Country
2020
as George Freeman
61st Street
2022
as Franklin Roberts
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Lucien P. Singer
Gary the Rat
2003
Movies (64)
Lilo & Stitch
2025
as Cobra Bubbles
Terminator Genisys
2015
as Miles Dyson
The Mummy
2017
as Colonel Greenway
Final Destination 5
2011
as Agent Block
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Narrator (voice)
12 Angry Men
1997
as Foreman
D-Tox
2002
as Reverend Jones
Dangerous Minds
1995
as Mr. George Grandey
Space Cowboys
2000
as Roger Hines
The Divide
2012
as Delvin
Project Power
2020
as Captain Craine
Office Christmas Party
2016
as Walter Davis
Hamburger Hill
1987
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
Let It Shine
2012
as Jacob
Heist 88
2023
as Jeremy Horne
Nothing But the Truth
2008
as Agent O'Hara
The Photograph
2020
as Louis Morton
Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Marcus Temple
The Preacher's Wife
1996
as Reverend Henry Biggs
The Last Supper
1995
as Luke
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Lt. Glenn
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Joyful Noise
2012
as Pastor Dale
Ben Is Back
2018
as Mr. Beeby
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Panther
1995
as Bobby Seale
Hurricane Season
2010
as Mr. Randolph
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as Jim
Beyond the Law
1993
as Conroy Price
Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Otis Tucker
On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Corey (segment "Fences")
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Holy Matrimony
1994
as Cooper
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
Uncorked
2020
as Louis
Ambushed
1998
as Jerry Robinson
Blind Faith
1998
as John Williams
Between the World and Me
2020
as Self
The Acting Class
2000
as Self
The Affair
1995
as Travis Holloway
Death Wish
2024
as Pilot (voice)
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
as Justice Butler
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Officer James Halloran
The Boys Next Door
1996
as Lucien P. Singer
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002
as Clarence Brandley
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994
as Thomas
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
as Self
Girl Dad
2026
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)
Partners of the Heart
2002
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
First Affair
1983
as Male Student #2
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
as Eddie Jones
Percy & Thunder
1993
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
as Officer James Halloran
The Piano Lesson
1995
as Lymon
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Host
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
as (voice)
The Groveland Four
2018
as Self - Narrator
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020
as Self - Narrator
The Emperor's New Clothes
1992
as Scribe (voice)
The Fight
2005
as Narrator (voice)
About 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… With 98 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Courtney B. Vance has appeared in 64 films and 34 TV shows.
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Most Popular Courtney B. Vance Movies
- Lilo & Stitch (2025) — as Cobra Bubbles
- Terminator Genisys (2015) — as Miles Dyson
- The Mummy (2017) — as Colonel Greenway
- Final Destination 5 (2011) — as Agent Block
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) — as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
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