
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.001 |
Birthday | 1960-03-12 |
Place of Birth | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
Also Known As | کورتنی بی. ونس, |

1991

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
5.7/3
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1990

The Hunt for Red October
7.38/3329
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...
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The Hunt for Red October

1994

Holy Matrimony
5.2/54
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
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Holy Matrimony

1987

Hamburger Hill
6.56/468
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of...
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2002

D-Tox
5.568/656
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming....
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D-Tox

2000

Space Cowboys
6.393/1382
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel...
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1996

The Preacher's Wife
5.8/231
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei...
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The Preacher's Wife

1995

The Tuskegee Airmen
7.057/123
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program....
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1997

12 Angry Men
7.658/377
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
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12 Angry Men

1999

Cookie's Fortune
6.4/177
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
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2010

Extraordinary Measures
6.273/309
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a con...
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1995

The Last Supper
6.6/279
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
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1995

Dangerous Minds
7/1171
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After...
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Dangerous Minds

1993

The Adventures of Huck Finn
6.209/187
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his lat...
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1995

Panther
6.3/39
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Panther

2008

Nothing But the Truth
6.9/490
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her sourc...
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Nothing But the Truth

2012

Joyful Noise
6.5/157
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
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Joyful Noise

2012

The Divide
5.933/663
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away a...
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The Divide

2025

Lilo & Stitch
0/0
The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
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Lilo & Stitch

2003

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9/5
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

1993

Beyond the Law
6.212/151
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the...
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Beyond the Law

1996

The Boys Next Door
6.6/10
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four d...
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The Boys Next Door

2019

On Broadway
8.7/3
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...
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1995

The Affair
3.8/11
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of h...
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The Affair

1998

Ambushed
5.1/16
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for...
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Ambushed

2012

Let It Shine
6.9/302
A young teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help his friend out and win the girl of his dreams by going through several events of betrayal,...
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Let It Shine

2023

Heist 88
6.831/86
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history.
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Heist 88

1998

Blind Faith
6.4/12
In 1957, black lawyer John Williams has to defend his nephew Charlie, who is accused of strangling a white boy to death. John doesn't believe Charlie...
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Blind Faith

1992

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
0/0
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

1992

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
0/0
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

1993

Percy & Thunder
0/0
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Percy & Thunder

1998

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
3.7/3
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey...
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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1994

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
7/2
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
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Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

2002

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
0/0
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl F...
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

1998

Naked City: A Killer Christmas
2.7/3
An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas

2018

The Groveland Four
9/1
July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lake County, Florida. The case of “The Groveland Four...
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The Groveland Four

2015

Terminator Genisys
5.936/8474
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unkn...
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Terminator Genisys

2020

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
0/0
Nicknamed “Architect to the Stars,” African American architect Paul R. Williams had an incredible life. Orphaned at the age of four, Williams grew up...
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Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

2011

Final Destination 5
6.1/3460
Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge coll...
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2016

Office Christmas Party
5.686/2083
When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his c...
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2017

The Mummy
5.513/7265
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our c...
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2018

Isle of Dogs
7.9/4952
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...
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Isle of Dogs

2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6.5/98
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

1992

In the Line of Duty: Street War
5/8
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the d...
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In the Line of Duty: Street War

2018

Ben Is Back
6.6/922
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming...
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Ben Is Back

2005

The Fight
7/4
Explores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis and finds two men who, in the shadow of war, became relu...
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The Fight

1995

The Piano Lesson
7.25/6
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a g...
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The Piano Lesson

1999

Love and Action in Chicago
5/7
Just when covert assassin Eddie Jones decides to ditch his dangerous job to settle down with his girlfriend, his superiors convince him to kill a rene...
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Love and Action in Chicago

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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2020

Project Power
6.452/2861
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers...
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Project Power

2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.1/26
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2002

Partners of the Heart
6/1
Recounts the extraordinary segregation-era partnership between two surgeons--one black and one white--who defied the medical establishment and changed...
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Partners of the Heart

2000

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
0/0
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2020

The Photograph
6.4/210
When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a...
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The Photograph

2020

Uncorked
6.093/225
Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.
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Uncorked

2020

Between the World and Me
7.9/7
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of tha...
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Between the World and Me

2009

Hurricane Season
6.8/65
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach A...
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Hurricane Season

2000

The Acting Class
10/1
A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential a...
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The Acting Class

1983

First Affair
1/1
A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
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