Cast
Courtney B. Vance
Acting
Cast
Courtney B. Vance
Known for
Acting
Born
1960-03-12
From
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.
★7.2
MOVIE2025
Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
★6.0
MOVIE2015
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
★6.2
MOVIE2011
Final Destination 5
as Agent Block
★5.5
MOVIE2017
The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
★7.8
MOVIE2018
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1990
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
★7.7
MOVIE1997
12 Angry Men
as Foreman
★5.6
MOVIE2002
D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
★5.9
MOVIE2012
The Divide
as Delvin
★6.4
MOVIE2000
Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
★6.4
MOVIE2020
Project Power
as Captain Craine
★6.6
MOVIE1987
Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
★5.7
MOVIE2016
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
★6.3
MOVIE2020
The Photograph
as Louis Morton
★7.0
MOVIE2008
Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
★6.7
MOVIE2023
Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
★6.4
MOVIE2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
★6.6
MOVIE2018
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
★7.0
MOVIE2012
Let It Shine
as Jacob
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Panther
as Bobby Seale
★6.4
MOVIE2012
Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
MOVIE2026
Girl Dad
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The Last Supper
as Luke
★6.1
MOVIE2020
Uncorked
as Louis
★7.1
MOVIE1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn
★5.8
MOVIE1996
The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker
★5.1
MOVIE1998
Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
★6.2
MOVIE1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Jim
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price
★6.2
MOVIE1998
Blind Faith
as John Williams
★4.2
MOVIE1995
The Affair
as Travis Holloway
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE1994
Holy Matrimony
as Cooper
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
★8.7
MOVIE2019
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
★5.2
MOVIE2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
★7.9
MOVIE2020
Between the World and Me
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2000
The Acting Class
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE1992
In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
★4.2
MOVIE1998
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
★4.9
MOVIE1999
Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones
MOVIE2024
Death Wish
as Pilot (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1996
The Boys Next Door
as Lucien P. Singer
★9.0
MOVIE2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
★4.0
MOVIE1983
First Affair
as Male Student #2
★9.0
MOVIE2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
★7.6
MOVIE1995
The Piano Lesson
as Lymon
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
★3.8
MOVIE1998
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
★8.0
MOVIE1993
Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
as Thomas
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
MOVIE2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Host
MOVIE2020
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
★9.0
MOVIE2018
The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator
★7.2
MOVIE2005
The Fight
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1992
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Scribe (voice)