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 | 18.997 |
Birthday | 1960-03-12 |
Place of Birth | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
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1991
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
5.7/3
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The Hunt for Red October
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1994
Holy Matrimony
5.2/50
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Hamburger Hill
6.566/450
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2002
D-Tox
5.566/633
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2000
Space Cowboys
6.386/1339
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1996
The Preacher's Wife
5.757/220
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1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
7.1/114
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1997
12 Angry Men
7.654/353
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12 Angry Men
1999
Cookie's Fortune
6.382/169
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2010
Extraordinary Measures
6.272/300
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1995
The Last Supper
6.564/274
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Dangerous Minds
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1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
6.2/178
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Panther
6.2/36
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2008
Nothing But the Truth
6.9/471
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2012
Joyful Noise
6.5/154
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2012
The Divide
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Lilo & Stitch
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2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9/5
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1993
Beyond the Law
6.209/146
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1996
The Boys Next Door
6.6/10
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2019
On Broadway
8.7/3
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1995
The Affair
3.8/11
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1998
Ambushed
5.1/15
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2012
Let It Shine
6.9/300
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2023
Heist 88
6.924/66
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1998
Blind Faith
6.2/11
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1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
0/0
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1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
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1993
Percy & Thunder
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A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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1998
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
3.7/3
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1994
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
7/2
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2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
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1998
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
3/2
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2018
The Groveland Four
9/1
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2015
Terminator Genisys
5.938/8305
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Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
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Final Destination 5
6.1/3351
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2016
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5.675/2019
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2017
The Mummy
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2018
Isle of Dogs
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2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6.526/95
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
5/8
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2018
Ben Is Back
6.633/903
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2005
The Fight
7/4
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1995
The Piano Lesson
7/2
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1999
Love and Action in Chicago
5/7
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
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2020
Project Power
6.466/2808
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2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.1/26
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2002
Partners of the Heart
6/1
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2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
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2020
The Photograph
6.393/206
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2020
Uncorked
6.09/222
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Between the World and Me
7.9/7
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2009
Hurricane Season
6.815/62
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Hurricane Season
2000
The Acting Class
10/1
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