Acting credits
97
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Courtney B. Vance
Acting
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Movies: 63Series: 34Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 24047
IMDb ID: nm0005524
Known for: Acting
Born: March 12, 1960
Age: 66
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.63
Wikidata: Q710169
Also known as
Courtney Bernard Vance
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Courtney B. Vance.
Girl Dad
2026 Movie
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
2026 Movie
Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
2025 Movie
Death Wish
as Pilot (voice)
2024 Movie
Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
2023 Movie
Between the World and Me
as Self
2020 Movie
Project Power
as Captain Craine
2020 Movie
Uncorked
as Louis
2020 Movie
The Photograph
as Louis Morton
2020 Movie
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
2020 Movie
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
2019 Movie
Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
2018 Movie
The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator
2018 Movie
Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
2018 Movie
The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
2017 Movie
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
2017 Movie
Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
2016 Movie
Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
2015 Movie
Let It Shine
as Jacob
2012 Movie
The Divide
as Delvin
2012 Movie
Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
2012 Movie
Final Destination 5
as Agent Block
2011 Movie
Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
2010 Movie
Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
2010 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Courtney B. Vance.
Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon • 10 eps
2024 Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Zeus • 1 eps
2023 Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self • 2 eps
2022 Series
Sherri
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2022 Series
61st Street
as Franklin Roberts • 16 eps
2022 Series
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self • 2 eps
2021 Series
Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman • 3 eps
2020 Series
The Tamron Hall Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2019 Series
Genius
as C.L. Franklin • 8 eps
2017 Series
American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran • 10 eps
2016 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks • 3 eps
2013 Series
Graceland
as Sam Campbell • 1 eps
2013 Series
Scandal
as Clarence Parker • 1 eps
2012 Series
Finding Your Roots
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks • 4 eps
2011 Series
FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck • 22 eps
2009 Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2009 Series
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk • 3 eps
2005 Series
Gary the Rat
1 eps
2003 Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver • 111 eps
2001 Series
Boston Public
as Walter Harrelson • 2 eps
2000 Series
The Wild Thornberrys
as Makai (voice) • 1 eps
1998 Series