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Courtney B. Vance
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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, Jo…
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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.
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2026
Girl Dad
Movie
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2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Movie Self
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2025
Lilo & Stitch
Movie Cobra Bubbles
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2024
Death Wish
Movie Pilot (voice)
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2024
Grotesquerie
TV show Marshall Tryon
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2023
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
TV show Zeus
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2023
Heist 88
Movie Jeremy Horne
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
61st Street
TV show Franklin Roberts
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2021
Amend: The Fight for America
TV show Self
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2020
Between the World and Me
Movie Self
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2020
Lovecraft Country
TV show George Freeman
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2020
Project Power
Movie Captain Craine
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2020
Uncorked
Movie Louis
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2020
The Photograph
Movie Louis Morton
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2020
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Movie Self - Narrator
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2019
On Broadway
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Movie Self - Host
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2018
Ben Is Back
Movie Mr. Beeby
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2018
The Groveland Four
Movie Self - Narrator
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2018
Isle of Dogs
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2017
The Mummy
Movie Colonel Greenway
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2017
Genius
TV show C.L. Franklin
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2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Movie Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
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2016
Office Christmas Party
Movie Walter Davis
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2016
American Crime Story
TV show Johnnie Cochran
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Terminator Genisys
Movie Miles Dyson
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2013
Masters of Sex
TV show Dr. Charles Hendricks
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2013
Graceland
TV show Sam Campbell
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2012
Let It Shine
Movie Jacob
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2012
Scandal
TV show Clarence Parker
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2012
Finding Your Roots
TV show Self
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2012
The Divide
Movie Delvin
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2012
Joyful Noise
Movie Pastor Dale
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2011
Revenge
TV show Benjamin Brooks
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2011
Final Destination 5
Movie Agent Block
