Courtney B. Vance
Acting
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.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
Age 41 (now 66)
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Age 29 (now 66)
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
Age 59 (now 66)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Host
Age 58 (now 66)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Age 57 (now 66)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
Age 46 (now 66)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Age 44 (now 66)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
Age 42 (now 66)
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
Age 38 (now 66)
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
Age 38 (now 66)
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
as Thomas
Age 33 (now 66)
In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
Age 32 (now 66)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
Age 31 (now 66)
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
Age 30 (now 66) The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
Age 29 (now 66)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Zeus
Age 63 (now 66)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Age 55 (now 66)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 54 (now 66)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 49 (now 66)
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 45 (now 66)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
Age 41 (now 66)
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Courtney Bernard Vance
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