
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.

The Groveland Four

On Broadway

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Between the World and Me

クローザー

犬ヶ島

ER 緊急救命室

12人の怒れる男 評決の行方

Boston Public

LAW & ORDER: 犯罪心理捜査班

リベンジ

アメリカン・クライム・ストーリー

Genius

Any Day Now

Picket Fences

レッド・オクトーバーを追え!

LAW&ORDER

パーシー・ジャクソンとオリンポスの神々

グロテスク

リロ&スティッチ

The Piano Lesson

Graceland

ゴールデングローブ賞

スキャンダル

ラヴクラフト・カントリー

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

自由の国アメリカ: 闘いと変革の150年

マスターズ・オブ・セックス

The Tuskegee Airmen

フラッシュフォワード

The Fight

NOVA

ワイルド・ソーンベリーズ

デンジャラス・マインド/卒業の日まで

Let It Shine

ザ・クリミナル 合衆国の陰謀

61st Street

Heist 88

The Boys Next Door

Hurricane Season

American Experience

ベン・イズ・バック

ハンバーガー・ヒル

The Last Supper

Gary the Rat

プロジェクト・パワー

Joyful Noise

スペース カウボーイ

フォトグラフ

Cookie's Fortune

不死細胞ヒーラ ヘンリエッタ・ラックスの永遠なる人生

thirtysomething

小さな命が呼ぶとき

Beyond the Law

ファインディング・ユア・ルーツ

ファイナル・デッドブリッジ

ザ・レイト・ショー・ウィズ・スティーヴン・コルベア

Panther

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Uncorked

Blind Faith

Partners of the Heart

ターミネーター:新起動/ジェニシス

ディヴァイド

天使の贈りもの

クレイジー・パーティー

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

The Jennifer Hudson Show

D-TOX

ザ・マミー 呪われた砂漠の王女

The Acting Class

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Holy Matrimony

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Ambushed

タムロン・ホール

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Love and Action in Chicago

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

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The Affair

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Sherri

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

First Affair

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

Percy & Thunder

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Death Wish

The Emperor's New Clothes

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause