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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.

Girl Dad

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

Lilo & Stitch
as Cobra Bubbles

Death Wish
as Pilot (voice)

Grotesquerie
as Marshall Tryon

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Zeus

Heist 88
as Jeremy Horne

Sherri
as Self - Guest

The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self

61st Street
as Franklin Roberts

Amend: The Fight for America
as Self

Between the World and Me
as Self

Lovecraft Country
as George Freeman

Project Power
as Captain Craine

Uncorked
as Louis

The Photograph
as Louis Morton

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
as Self - Narrator

On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)

Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Host

Ben Is Back
as Mr. Beeby

The Groveland Four
as Self - Narrator

Isle of Dogs
as Narrator (voice)

The Mummy
as Colonel Greenway

Genius
as C.L. Franklin

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Office Christmas Party
as Walter Davis

American Crime Story
as Johnnie Cochran

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest

Terminator Genisys
as Miles Dyson

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self

Masters of Sex
as Dr. Charles Hendricks

Graceland
as Sam Campbell

Let It Shine
as Jacob

Scandal
as Clarence Parker

Finding Your Roots
as Self

Joyful Noise
as Pastor Dale

The Divide
as Delvin

Revenge
as Benjamin Brooks

Final Destination 5
as Agent Block

Hurricane Season
as Mr. Randolph

Extraordinary Measures
as Marcus Temple

FlashForward
as Stanford Wedeck

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest

Nothing But the Truth
as Agent O'Hara

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Corey (segment "Fences")

The Closer
as Chief Tommy Delk

The Fight
as Narrator (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)

Gary the Rat

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Partners of the Heart
as Vivien Thomas (voice)

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Clarence Brandley

D-Tox
as Reverend Jones

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ron Carver

Boston Public
as Walter Harrelson

Space Cowboys
as Roger Hines

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

The Acting Class
as Self

Love and Action in Chicago
as Eddie Jones