Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance

Birthday: 1960-03-12

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also known as: کورتنی بی. ونس

imdb_id: nm0005524

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 (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney B. Vance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

The Acting Class

Score: 10.0

The Groveland Four

Score: 9.0

On Broadway

Score: 8.7

Between the World and Me

Score: 7.9

Isle of Dogs

Score: 7.9

12 Angry Men

Score: 7.7

The Hunt for Red October

Score: 7.4

The Piano Lesson

Score: 7.2

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Score: 7.1

The Tuskegee Airmen

Score: 7.1

The Fight

Score: 7.0

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Score: 7.0

Dangerous Minds

Score: 7.0

Nothing But the Truth

Score: 7.0

Let It Shine

Score: 6.9

Hurricane Season

Score: 6.8

Heist 88

Score: 6.8

Ben Is Back

Score: 6.6

The Boys Next Door

Score: 6.6

The Last Supper

Score: 6.6

Hamburger Hill

Score: 6.6

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Score: 6.5

Joyful Noise

Score: 6.5

Project Power

Score: 6.4

The Photograph

Score: 6.4

Blind Faith

Score: 6.4

Cookie's Fortune

Score: 6.4

Space Cowboys

Score: 6.4

Panther

Score: 6.3

Extraordinary Measures

Score: 6.3

Beyond the Law

Score: 6.2

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Score: 6.2

Uncorked

Score: 6.1

Final Destination 5

Score: 6.1

Partners of the Heart

Score: 6.0

Terminator Genisys

Score: 5.9

The Divide

Score: 5.9

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Score: 5.9

The Preacher's Wife

Score: 5.8

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

Score: 5.7

Office Christmas Party

Score: 5.7

D-Tox

Score: 5.6

The Mummy

Score: 5.5

Holy Matrimony

Score: 5.3

Ambushed

Score: 5.1

Love and Action in Chicago

Score: 5.0

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Score: 5.0

The Affair

Score: 3.8

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

Score: 3.7

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

Score: 2.7

First Affair

Score: 1.0

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

Score: 0.0

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Score: 0.0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Score: 0.0

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

Score: 0.0

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Score: 0.0

Percy & Thunder

Score: 0.0

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

Score: 0.0

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

Score: 0.0

Lilo & Stitch

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Closer

Score: 7.9

The Closer

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Genius

Score: 7.7

Boston Public

Score: 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

American Crime Story

Score: 7.6

Revenge

Score: 7.6

Any Day Now

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

American Experience

Score: 7.4

Grotesquerie

Score: 7.3

Lovecraft Country

Score: 7.2

Scandal

Score: 7.1

Amend: The Fight for America

Score: 7.1

Graceland

Score: 7.1

Masters of Sex

Score: 7.1

FlashForward

Score: 7.0

NOVA

Score: 7.0

The Wild Thornberrys

Score: 6.9

61st Street

Score: 6.6

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Score: 6.4

Finding Your Roots

Score: 6.2

thirtysomething

Score: 6.1

Tamron Hall

Score: 5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

The View

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.5

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.4

Sherri

Score: 4.2