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Actor

Courtney B. Vance

Known for Acting

Born 1960-03-12 in Detroit, Michigan, USA

Age 66

Mostly Documentary, History

1Films in catalog

64Credits

1983 to 2026Years active

34Trailers on Reactr

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.

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Girl Dad

2026

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

2026 · Trailer

as Self

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Lilo & Stitch

2025 · Trailer

as Cobra Bubbles

Death Wish

2024

as Pilot (voice)

Heist 88

2023

as Jeremy Horne

Between the World and Me

2020 · Trailer

as Self

Project Power

2020 · Trailer

as Captain Craine

Uncorked

2020 · Trailer

as Louis

The Photograph

2020 · Trailer

as Louis Morton

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

2020

as Self - Narrator

On Broadway

2019 · Trailer

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

2019

as Self - Host

Ben Is Back

2018 · Trailer

as Mr. Beeby

The Groveland Four

2018

as Self - Narrator

Isle of Dogs

2018 · Trailer

as Narrator (voice)

The Mummy

2017 · Trailer

as Colonel Greenway

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017 · Trailer

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Office Christmas Party

2016 · Trailer

as Walter Davis

Terminator Genisys

2015 · Trailer

as Miles Dyson

Let It Shine

2012 · Trailer

as Jacob

The Divide

2012 · Trailer

as Delvin

Joyful Noise

2012 · Trailer

as Pastor Dale

Final Destination 5

2011 · Trailer

as Agent Block

Hurricane Season

2010 · Trailer

as Mr. Randolph

Extraordinary Measures

2010 · Trailer

as Marcus Temple

Nothing but the Truth

2008 · Trailer

as Agent O'Hara

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as Corey (segment "Fences")

The Fight

2005

as Narrator (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Partners of the Heart

2002

as Vivien Thomas (voice)

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

2002

as Clarence Brandley

D-Tox

2002 · Trailer

as Reverend Jones

Space Cowboys

2000 · Trailer

as Roger Hines

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

The Acting Class

2000

as Self

Love and Action in Chicago

1999

as Eddie Jones

Cookie's Fortune

1999

as Otis Tucker

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998

as Officer James Halloran

Blind Faith

1998 · Trailer

as John Williams

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

1998

as Officer James Halloran

Ambushed

1998 · Trailer

as Jerry Robinson

12 Angry Men

1997 · Trailer

as Foreman

The Preacher's Wife

1996 · Trailer

as Reverend Henry Biggs

The Boys Next Door

1996

as Lucien P. Singer

The Affair

1995

as Travis Holloway

The Last Supper

1995 · Trailer

as Luke

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995

as Lt. Glenn

Dangerous Minds

1995 · Trailer

as Mr. George Grandey

Panther

1995 · Trailer

as Bobby Seale

The Piano Lesson

1995

as Lymon

Holy Matrimony

1994 · Trailer

as Cooper

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

1994

as Thomas

Percy & Thunder

1993

as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

Beyond the Law

1993 · Trailer

as Conroy Price

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 · Trailer

as Jim

In the Line of Duty: Street War

1992

as Justice Butler

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

1992

as (voice)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

1992

as (voice)

The Emperor's New Clothes

1992

as Scribe (voice)

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

1991

as Reader

The Hunt for Red October

1990 · Trailer

as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

Hamburger Hill

1987 · Trailer

as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

First Affair

1983

as Male Student #2

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