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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1960-03-12
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 13.7
- info Birth Place Detroit, Michigan, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Courtney B. Vance
5.7
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991-01-01
7.4
The Hunt for Red October
1990-03-02
5.2
Holy Matrimony
1994-04-08
6.6
Hamburger Hill
1987-08-07
5.6
D-Tox
2002-01-04
6.4
Space Cowboys
2000-08-04
5.8
The Preacher's Wife
1996-12-13
7.1
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995-08-25
7.7
12 Angry Men
1997-08-17
6.4
Cookie's Fortune
1999-03-24
6.3
Extraordinary Measures
2010-01-21
6.6
The Last Supper
1995-09-08
7
Dangerous Minds
1995-08-11
6.2
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993-04-02
6.4
Panther
1995-05-03
6.9
Nothing But the Truth
2008-12-19
6.5
Joyful Noise
2012-01-13
6
The Divide
2012-01-13
0
Lilo & Stitch
2025-05-21
5.9
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003-02-10
6.2
Beyond the Law
1993-04-22
6.6
The Boys Next Door
1996-02-04
8.7
On Broadway
2019-10-12
3.8
The Affair
1995-10-14
5.1
Ambushed
1998-06-20
6.9
Let It Shine
2012-06-15
6.8
Heist 88
2023-10-01
6.4
Blind Faith
1998-11-23
0
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992-02-01
0
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992-06-10
0
Percy & Thunder
1993-09-07
3.7
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998-10-04
7
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994-02-19
0
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002-04-21
2.7
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998-12-13
9
The Groveland Four
2018-06-25
5.9
Terminator Genisys
2015-06-23
0
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020-02-06
6.1
Final Destination 5
2011-08-12
5.7
Office Christmas Party
2016-11-25
5.6
The Mummy
2017-06-06
7.9
Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
6.5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017-04-22
5
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992-10-25
6.6
Ben Is Back
2018-12-05
7
The Fight
2005-01-24
7.3
The Piano Lesson
1995-02-05
5
Love and Action in Chicago
1999-09-15
0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
6.5
Project Power
2020-08-14
7.1
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004-09-04
6
Partners of the Heart
2002-06-01
0
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000-05-31
6.4
The Photograph
2020-02-14
6.1
Uncorked
2020-03-27
7.9
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
6.8
Hurricane Season
2009-12-08
10
The Acting Class
2000-04-29
1
First Affair
1983-10-25
7.7
Boston Public
2000-10-23
7.4
Law & Order
1990-09-13
6.3
thirtysomething
1987-09-29
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
7.4
Any Day Now
1998-08-18
6.9
NOVA
1974-03-03
6.2
Finding Your Roots
2012-03-24
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
8.7
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
7.8
ER
1994-09-19
7.1
FlashForward
2009-09-24
6.9
The Wild Thornberrys
1998-09-01
7.2
Graceland
2013-06-06
7.6
Revenge
2011-09-21
7.5
American Crime Story
2016-02-02
5.2
Tamron Hall
2019-09-09
7.5
American Experience
1988-10-04
7.4
Law & Order
1990-09-13
4.2
Sherri
2022-09-12
7.2
Lovecraft Country
2020-08-16
7.1
Masters of Sex
2013-09-29
7.4
Grotesquerie
2024-09-25
7.2
Scandal
2012-04-05
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16
7.1
Amend: The Fight for America
2021-02-17
6.7
61st Street
2022-04-10
7.7
Genius
2017-04-25
7.9
The Closer
2005-06-13
7.9
The Closer
2005-06-13
4.4
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21
6.8
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022-09-12