Courtney Bernard Vance 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 Pla ... y. 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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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
Episodes: 111
First Aired: Sep 30, 2001
FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck
Episodes: 22
First Aired: Sep 24, 2009
61st Street
as Franklin Roberts
Episodes: 16
First Aired: Apr 10, 2022
American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Feb 02, 2016
Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Sep 25, 2024
Genius
as C.L. Franklin
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Apr 25, 2017
Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 21, 2011
Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Aug 16, 2020
Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 29, 2013
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jun 13, 2005
Boston Public
as Walter Harrelson
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 23, 2000
Law & Order
as Mayor's Assistant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1990
NOVA
as Narrator
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 03, 1974
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lucien P. Singer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
ER
as Russell Banfield
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1994
The Wild Thornberrys
as Makai (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 01, 1998
Graceland
as Sam Campbell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 06, 2013
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1988
Law & Order
as Benjamin Greer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1990
Scandal
as Clarence Parker
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 05, 2012
The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 13, 2005
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 17, 2021
thirtysomething
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1987
The View
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
Any Day Now
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 18, 1998
Finding Your Roots
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 24, 2012
The View
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 2019
Sherri
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 2022
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 16, 2009
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 21, 2014
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 2022
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