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 Wilsons Fences in 1985, John Guares Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephrons 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 Preachers Wife (1996), Cookies 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 Geographics 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.Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies unavailable from Courtney B. Vance

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

Reader

Movie 1991

Hamburger Hill

Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

Movie 1987

Lilo & Stitch

Cobra Bubbles

Movie 2025

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Movie 2003

The Boys Next Door

Lucien P. Singer

Movie 1996

On Broadway

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2019

The Affair

Travis Holloway

Movie 1995

Ambushed

Jerry Robinson

Movie 1998

Let It Shine

Jacob

Movie 2012

Heist 88

Jeremy Horne

Movie 2023

Blind Faith

John Williams

Movie 1998

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

(voice)

Movie 1992

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

(voice)

Movie 1992

Percy & Thunder

Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

Movie 1993

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Officer James Halloran

Movie 1998

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Thomas

Movie 1994

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Clarence Brandley

Movie 2002

The Groveland Four

Self - Narrator

Movie 2018

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

Self - Narrator

Movie 2020

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Justice Butler

Movie 1992

The Fight

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2005

The Piano Lesson

Lymon

Movie 1995

Love and Action in Chicago

Eddie Jones

Movie 1999

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Corey (segment "Fences")

Movie 2006

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Other Voices (voice)

Movie 2004

Partners of the Heart

Vivien Thomas (voice)

Movie 2002

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Movie 2000

Uncorked

Louis

Movie 2020

Between the World and Me

Self

Movie 2020

The Acting Class

Self

Movie 2000

First Affair

Male Student #2

Movie 1983

Tv series unavailable from Courtney B. Vance

Boston Public

Walter Harrelson

Tv 2000

thirtysomething

Tv 1987

The View

Self

Tv 1997

Any Day Now

Tv 1998

NOVA

Narrator

Tv 1974

Finding Your Roots

Self

Tv 2012

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Ron Carver

Tv 2001

The View

Self - Guest

Tv 1997

ER

Russell Banfield

Tv 1994

The Wild Thornberrys

Makai (voice)

Tv 1998

Revenge

Benjamin Brooks

Tv 2011

American Crime Story

Johnnie Cochran

Tv 2016

Tamron Hall

Self - Guest

Tv 2019

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Tv 1988

Sherri

Self - Guest

Tv 2022

Masters of Sex

Dr. Charles Hendricks

Tv 2013

Scandal

Clarence Parker

Tv 2012

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Tv 2009

Amend: The Fight for America

Self

Tv 2021

The Closer

Chief Tommy Delk

Tv 2005

The Closer

Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tv 2005

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self

Tv 2014