Courtney B. Vance
Acting
Born: Mar 12, 1960
From: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilo & Stitch | Cobra Bubbles | 2025 | 7.196 |
| Heist 88 | Jeremy Horne | 2023 | 6.659 |
| On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019 | 8.7 |
| Joyful Noise | Pastor Dale | 2012 | 6.4 |
| The Divide | Delvin | 2012 | 5.885 |
| Let It Shine | Jacob | 2012 | 6.948 |
| Extraordinary Measures | Marcus Temple | 2010 | 6.278 |
| Nothing But the Truth | Agent O'Hara | 2008 | 6.955 |
| Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003 | 5.188 | |
| D-Tox | Reverend Jones | 2002 | 5.58 |
| Space Cowboys | Roger Hines | 2000 | 6.391 |
| Cookie's Fortune | Otis Tucker | 1999 | 6.362 |
| Ambushed | Jerry Robinson | 1998 | 5.056 |
| Blind Faith | John Williams | 1998 | 6.167 |
| 12 Angry Men | Foreman | 1997 | 7.68 |
| The Preacher's Wife | Reverend Henry Biggs | 1996 | 5.8 |
| The Boys Next Door | Lucien P. Singer | 1996 | 6.667 |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | Lt. Glenn | 1995 | 7.077 |
| The Last Supper | Luke | 1995 | 6.522 |
| Dangerous Minds | Mr. George Grandey | 1995 | 6.954 |
| Panther | Bobby Seale | 1995 | 6.267 |
| The Affair | Travis Holloway | 1995 | 4.233 |
| Holy Matrimony | Cooper | 1994 | 5.238 |
| The Adventures of Huck Finn | Jim | 1993 | 6.188 |
| Beyond the Law | Conroy Price | 1993 | 6.282 |
| Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes | (voice) | 1992 | 8.0 |
| Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems | (voice) | 1992 | 8.0 |
| Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers | Reader | 1991 | 6.25 |
| The Hunt for Red October | Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones … | 1990 | 7.382 |
| Hamburger Hill | Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson | 1987 | 6.566 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1960 |
| From | Detroit, Michigan, USA |