Courtney B. Vance
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.
Acting
Movie
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
2015
Movie
The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
2017
Movie
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Movie
Final Destination 5
as Agent Block
2011
Movie
The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
1990
Movie
Project Power
as Captain Craine
2020
Movie
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
2016
Movie
Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
2025
Movie
Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
2000
Movie
Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
1995
TV
American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran
2016
Movie
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
2018
TV
ER
as Russell Banfield
1994
TV
Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks
2011
TV
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Zeus
2023
TV
Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman
2020
Movie
The Divide
as Delvin
2012
Movie
D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
2002
TV
Law & Order
as Mayor's Assistant
1990
TV
Law & Order
as Benjamin Greer
1990
TV
Scandal
as Clarence Parker
2012
Movie
Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
2008
TV
FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck
2009
Movie
Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
1987
