Courtney B. Vance
Birthday
1960/03/12 (64 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also know as
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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 (201...Read more
Acting
(1991) Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
(1990) The Hunt for Red October
as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
(1994) Holy Matrimony
as Cooper
(1987) Hamburger Hill
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
(2002) D-Tox
as Reverend Jones
(2000) Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines
(1996) The Preacher's Wife
as Reverend Henry Biggs
(1995) The Tuskegee Airmen
as Lt. Glenn
(1997) 12 Angry Men
as Foreman
(1999) Cookie's Fortune
as Otis Tucker
(2010) Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple
(1995) The Last Supper
as Luke
(1995) Dangerous Minds
as Mr. George Grandey
(1993) The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Jim
(1995) Panther
as Bobby Seale
(2008) Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara
(2012) Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale
(2012) The Divide
as Delvin
(2025) Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles
(2003) Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
as ---
(1993) Beyond the Law
as Conroy Price
(1996) The Boys Next Door
as Lucien P. Singer
(2019) On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
(1995) The Affair
as Travis Holloway
(1998) Ambushed
as Jerry Robinson
(2012) Let It Shine
as Jacob
(2023) Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne
(1998) Blind Faith
as John Williams
(1992) Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
(1992) Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
(1993) Percy & Thunder
as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
(1998) Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Officer James Halloran
(1994) Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
as Thomas
(2002) Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley
(1998) Naked City: A Killer Christmas
as Officer James Halloran
(2018) The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator
(2015) Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson
(2020) Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator
(2011) Final Destination 5
as Agent Jim Block
(2016) Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis
(2017) The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway
(2018) Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)
(2017) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
(1992) In the Line of Duty: Street War
as Justice Butler
(2018) Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby
(2005) The Fight
as Narrator (voice)
(1995) The Piano Lesson
as Lymon
(1999) Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones
(2006) The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")
(2020) Project Power
as Captain Craine
(2004) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
(2002) Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)
(2000) The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as ---
(2020) The Photograph
as Louis Morton
(2020) Uncorked
as Louis
(2020) Between the World and Me
as Self
(2009) Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph
(2000) The Acting Class
as Self
(1983) First Affair
as Male Student #2
(2000) Boston Public
as Walter Harrelson
(1990) Law & Order
as Mayor's Assistant
(1987) thirtysomething
as ---
(1997) The View
as Self
(1998) Any Day Now
as ---
(1974) NOVA
as Narrator
(2012) Finding Your Roots
as Self
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver
(1997) The View
as Self - Guest
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lucien P. Singer
(1994) ER
as Russell Banfield
(2009) FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck
(1998) The Wild Thornberrys
as Makai (voice)
(2013) Graceland
as Sam Campbell
(2011) Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks
(2016) American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran
(2019) Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
(1988) American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
(1990) Law & Order
as Benjamin Greer
(2022) Sherri
as Self - Guest
(2020) Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman
(2013) Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks
(2024) Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon
(2012) Scandal
as Clarence Parker
(2009) Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
(2021) Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
(2022) 61st Street
as Franklin Roberts
(2017) Genius
as C.L. Franklin
(2005) The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk
(2005) The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014) Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self