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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

(Reader)

The Hunt for Red October

(Seaman Jones)

Holy Matrimony

(Cooper)

Hamburger Hill

(Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson)

D-Tox

(Reverend Jones)

Space Cowboys

(Roger Hines)

The Preacher's Wife

(Reverend Henry Biggs)

The Tuskegee Airmen

(Lt. Glenn)

12 Angry Men

(Foreman)

Cookie's Fortune

(Otis Tucker)

Extraordinary Measures

(Marcus Temple)

The Last Supper

(Luke)

Dangerous Minds

(Mr. George Grandey)

The Adventures of Huck Finn

(Jim)

Panther

(Bobby Seale)

Nothing But the Truth

(Agent O'Hara)

Joyful Noise

(Pastor Dale)

The Divide

(Delvin)

Lilo & Stitch

(Cobra Bubbles)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Beyond the Law

(Conroy Price)

The Boys Next Door

(Lucien P. Singer)

On Broadway

(Self (archive footage))

The Affair

(Travis Holloway)

Ambushed

(Jerry Robinson)

Let It Shine

(Jacob)

Heist 88

(Jeremy Horne)

Blind Faith

(John Williams)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

((voice))

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

((voice))

Percy & Thunder

(Wayne 'Thunder' Carter)

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

(Officer James Halloran)

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

(Thomas)

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

(Clarence Brandley)

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

(Officer James Halloran)

The Groveland Four

(Self - Narrator)

Terminator Genisys

(Miles Dyson)

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

(Self - Narrator)

Final Destination 5

(Agent Jim Block)

Office Christmas Party

(Walter Davis)

The Mummy

(Colonel Greenway)

Isle of Dogs

(Narrator (voice))

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

(Sir Lord Keenan Coefield)

In the Line of Duty: Street War

(Justice Butler)

Ben Is Back

(Mr. Beeby)

The Fight

(Narrator (voice))

The Piano Lesson

(Lymon)

Love and Action in Chicago

(Eddie Jones)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

(Corey (segment "Fences"))

Project Power

(Captain Craine)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

(Other Voices (voice))

Partners of the Heart

(Vivien Thomas (voice))

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

The Photograph

(Louis Morton)

Uncorked

(Louis)

Between the World and Me

(Self)

Hurricane Season

(Mr. Randolph)

The Acting Class

(Self)

First Affair

(Male Student #2)

Boston Public

(Walter Harrelson)

Law & Order

(Mayor's Assistant)

thirtysomething

The View

(Self)

Any Day Now

NOVA

(Narrator)

Finding Your Roots

(Self)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

(Ron Carver)

The View

(Self - Guest)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(Lucien P. Singer)

ER

(Russell Banfield)

FlashForward

(Stanford Wedeck)

The Wild Thornberrys

(Makai (voice))

Graceland

(Sam Campbell)

Revenge

(Benjamin Brooks)

American Crime Story

(Johnnie Cochran)

Tamron Hall

(Self - Guest)

American Experience

(Narrator (voice))

Law & Order

(Benjamin Greer)

Sherri

(Self - Guest)

Lovecraft Country

(George Freeman)

Masters of Sex

(Dr. Charles Hendricks)

Grotesquerie

(Marshall Tryon)

Scandal

(Clarence Parker)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

(Self - Guest)

Amend: The Fight for America

(Self)

61st Street

(Franklin Roberts)

Genius

(C.L. Franklin)

The Closer

(Chief Tommy Delk)

The Closer

(Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited))

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

(Self)