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.

Фільмографія

• 2026Girl Dad
• 2025Ліло і Стіч — Cobra Bubbles
• 2024Death Wish — Pilot (voice)
• Гротеск — Marshall Tryon, Executive Producer
• 2023Heist 88 — Jeremy Horne, Executive Producer
• Персі Джексон та Олімпійці — Zeus
• 61st Street — Franklin Roberts
• 2020Uncorked — Louis
• Країна Лавкрафт — George Freeman
• 2020Проєкт «Сила» — Captain Craine
• 2020Фотографія — Louis Morton
• 2018Острів собак — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Повернути Бена — Mr. Beeby
• 2017The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
• Геній — C.L. Franklin
• 2017Мумія — Colonel Greenway
• Американська історія злочинів — Johnnie Cochran
• 2016Новорічний корпоратив — Walter Davis
• 2015Термінатор: Генезис — Miles Dyson
• Фахівці сексу — Dr. Charles Hendricks
• Ґрейсленд — Sam Campbell
• 2012Засвітись — Jacob
• 2012Радісний галас — Pastor Dale
• 2012Розділювач — Delvin
• Скандал — Clarence Parker
• Помста — Benjamin Brooks
• 2011Пункт призначення 5 — Agent Block
• 2010Hurricane Season — Mr. Randolph
• 2010Крайні заходи — Marcus Temple
• Проблиски майбутнього — Stanford Wedeck
• 2008Нічого крім правди — Agent O'Hara
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Corey (segment "Fences")
• The Closer — Chief Tommy Delk, Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005The Fight — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• Gary the Rat
• 2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
• 2002Partners of the Heart — Vivien Thomas (voice)
• 2002Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story — Clarence Brandley
• 2002Детоксикація — Reverend Jones
• Закон і порядок: злочинні наміри — Ron Carver
• Boston Public — Walter Harrelson
• 2000The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
• 2000Космічні ковбої — Roger Hines
• 1999Cookie's Fortune — Otis Tucker
• 1999Love and Action in Chicago — Eddie Jones
• 1998Ambushed — Jerry Robinson
• Any Day Now
• 1998Blind Faith — John Williams
• 1998Naked City: A Killer Christmas — Officer James Halloran
• 1998Naked City: Justice with a Bullet — Officer James Halloran
• Дика сімейка Торнберрі — Makai (voice)
• 199712 розгніваних чоловіків — Foreman
• 1996The Boys Next Door — Lucien P. Singer
• 1996Дружина священика — Reverend Henry Biggs
• 1995Panther — Bobby Seale
• 1995The Affair — Travis Holloway
• 1995The Last Supper — Luke
• 1995The Piano Lesson — Lymon
• 1995The Tuskegee Airmen — Lt. Glenn
• 1995Небезпечні думки — Mr. George Grandey
• 1994Holy Matrimony — Cooper
• 1994Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad — Thomas
• Швидка допомога — Russell Banfield
• 1993Percy & Thunder — Wayne 'Thunder' Carter
• 1993За межами закону — Conroy Price
• 1993Пригоди Гекльберрі Фінна — Jim
• 1992In the Line of Duty: Street War — Justice Butler
• 1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes — (voice)
• 1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems — (voice)
• Picket Fences — Warren Grier
• 1992The Emperor's New Clothes — Scribe (voice)
• 1991Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers — Reader
• Закон і порядок — Mayor's Assistant, Benjamin Greer
• 1990Полювання на "Червоний Жовтень" — Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1987Hamburger Hill — Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson
• thirtysomething
• 1983First Affair — Male Student #2
• Нова зірка — Narrator
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Lucien P. Singer

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (17)

• 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• Америка: Боротьба за свободу — Self
• 2020Between the World and Me — Self
• 2020Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story — Self - Narrator
• 2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America — Self - Host
• 2019On Broadway — Self (archive footage)
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• 2018The Groveland Four — Self - Narrator
• Пізнє шоу зі Стівеном Кольбером — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• Дивіться, що відбувається: у прямому ефірі — Self - Guest
• 2000The Acting Class — Self
• Погляд — Self, Self - Guest
• Золотий глобус — Self - Audience Member