Courtney B. Vance
- Recitazione
- 12 marzo 1960 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Girl Dad
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause · In persona
- Lilo & Stitch · Cobra Bubbles
- Death Wish · Pilot (Voce)
- Grotesquerie · Marshall Tryon, Produzione esecutiva
- Percy Jackson e gli dei dell'Olimpo · Zeus
- Heist 88 · Jeremy Horne, Produzione esecutiva
- Sherri · In persona
- The Jennifer Hudson Show · In persona
- 61st Street · Franklin Roberts
- Amend: libertà in America · In persona
- Between the World and Me · In persona
- Lovecraft Country - La terra dei demoni · George Freeman
- Project Power · Captain Craine
- Il sommelier · Louis
- The Photograph: Gli scatti di mia madre · Louis Morton
- Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story · In persona
- On Broadway · In persona
- The Tamron Hall Show · In persona
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America · In persona
- Ben Is Back · Mr. Beeby
- The Groveland Four · In persona
- L'isola dei cani · Narrator (Voce)
- La mummia · Colonel Greenway
- Genius · C.L. Franklin
- La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks · Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
- La festa prima delle feste · Walter Davis
- American Crime Story · Johnnie Cochran
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · In persona
- Terminator Genisys · Miles Dyson
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · In persona
- Masters of Sex · Dr. Charles Hendricks
- Graceland · Sam Campbell
- Let It Shine · Jacob
- Scandal · Clarence Parker
- Finding Your Roots · In persona
- Joyful Noise - Armonie del cuore · Pastor Dale
- The Divide · Delvin
- Revenge · Benjamin Brooks
- Final Destination 5 · Agent Block
- Hurricane Season · Mr. Randolph
- Misure straordinarie · Marcus Temple
- FlashForward · Stanford Wedeck
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · In persona
- Una sola verità · Agent O'Hara
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays · Corey (segment "Fences")
- The Closer · Chief Tommy Delk, Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Fight · Narrator (Voce)
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · Other Voices (Voce)
- Gary the Rat
- Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
- Partners of the Heart · Vivien Thomas (Voce)
- Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story · Clarence Brandley
- D-Tox · Reverend Jones
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent · Ron Carver
- Boston Public · Walter Harrelson
- Space Cowboys · Roger Hines
- The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
- The Acting Class · In persona
- Love and Action in Chicago · Eddie Jones
- La fortuna di Cookie · Otis Tucker
- Naked City: A Killer Christmas · Officer James Halloran
- Blind Faith · John Williams
- Violenza metropolitana · Officer James Halloran
- La famiglia della giungla · Makai (Voce)
- Any Day Now
- La trappola · Jerry Robinson
- La parola ai giurati · Foreman
- The View · In persona
- Uno sguardo dal cielo · Reverend Henry Biggs
- The Boys Next Door · Lucien P. Singer
- The Affair · Travis Holloway
- Una cena quasi perfetta · Luke
- I ragazzi di Tuskegee · Lt. Glenn
- Pensieri pericolosi · Mr. George Grandey
- Panther · Bobby Seale
- The Piano Lesson · Lymon
- E.R. - Medici in prima linea · Russell Banfield
- Marito a sorpresa · Cooper
- Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad · Thomas