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Courtney B. Vance
Born · March 12, 1960 (64 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bio
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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Grotesquerie
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Heist 88
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2023
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2022
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2022
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2021
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7.9
2020
Lovecraft Country
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2020
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2020
The Photograph
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2020
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2020
On Broadway
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8.7
2019
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
5.1
2019
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2018
The Groveland Four
Self - Narrator
9.0
2018
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Narrator (voice)
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2018
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2016
American Crime Story
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2016
Terminator Genisys
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5.9
2015
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4.4
2014
Masters of Sex
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2013
Graceland
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7.2
2013
Let It Shine
Jacob
6.9
2012
Scandal
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7.2
2012
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6.2
2012
Joyful Noise
Pastor Dale
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2012
The Divide
Delvin
5.9
2012
Revenge
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7.6
2011
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2011
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6.3
2010
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6.8
2009
FlashForward
Stanford Wedeck · (22 episodes)
7.0
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
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2009
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Agent O'Hara
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2008
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Corey (segment "Fences")
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2006
The Closer
Chief Tommy Delk · (3 episodes)
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2005
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Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited) · (1 episode)
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2005
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2005
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Other Voices (voice)
7.1
2004
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9
2003
Partners of the Heart
Vivien Thomas (voice)
6.0
2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Clarence Brandley
0.0
2002
D-Tox
Reverend Jones
5.6
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Ron Carver · (111 episodes)
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2001
Boston Public
Walter Harrelson · (2 episodes)
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2000
Space Cowboys
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6.4
2000
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0.0
2000
The Acting Class
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10.0
2000
Love and Action in Chicago
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5.0
1999
Cookie's Fortune
Otis Tucker
6.4
1999
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
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1998
Blind Faith
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6.2
1998
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3.7
1998
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Makai (voice) · (1 episode)
6.8
1998
Any Day Now
(1 episode)
7.4
1998
Ambushed
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5.1
1998
12 Angry Men
Foreman
7.7
1997
The View
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
The View
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
The Preacher's Wife
Reverend Henry Biggs
5.8
1996
The Boys Next Door
Lucien P. Singer
6.6
1996
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3.8
1995
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6.6
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
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7.0
1995
Dangerous Minds
Mr. George Grandey
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1995
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6.2
1995
The Piano Lesson
Lymon
7.3
1995
ER
Russell Banfield · (1 episode)
7.8
1994
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Cooper
5.2
1994
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
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7.0
1994
Percy & Thunder
Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
0.0
1993
Beyond the Law
Conroy Price
6.2
1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
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6.2
1993
In the Line of Duty: Street War
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5.0
1992
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0.0
1992
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(voice)
0.0
1992
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Reader
5.7
1991
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Mayor's Assistant · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
Law & Order
Benjamin Greer · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
The Hunt for Red October
Seaman Jones
7.4
1990
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
1988
thirtysomething
(1 episode)
6.3
1987
Hamburger Hill
Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
6.6
1987
First Affair
Male Student #2
1.0
1983
NOVA
Narrator · (1 episode)
6.9
1974
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Lucien P. Singer · (1 episode)
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1951