
Courtney B. 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.
TV Shows(30)

Grotesquerie
Marshall Tryon

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Zeus

Sherri
Self - Guest

61st Street
Franklin Roberts

The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self

Amend: The Fight for America
Self

Lovecraft Country
George Freeman

Tamron Hall
Self - Guest

Genius
C.L. Franklin

American Crime Story
Johnnie Cochran

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self

Graceland
Sam Campbell

Masters of Sex
Dr. Charles Hendricks

Finding Your Roots
Self

Scandal
Clarence Parker

Revenge
Benjamin Brooks

FlashForward
Stanford Wedeck

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest

The Closer
Chief Tommy Delk