Courtney B. Vance

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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Courtney B. Vance

Filmografia

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

Caccia a Ottobre Rosso

Marito a sorpresa

Hamburger Hill - Collina 937

D-Tox

Space Cowboys

Uno sguardo dal cielo

I ragazzi di Tuskegee

La parola ai giurati

La fortuna di Cookie

Misure straordinarie

Una cena quasi perfetta

Pensieri pericolosi

Le avventure di Huck Finn

Panther

Una sola verità

Joyful Noise - Armonie del cuore

The Divide

Lilo & Stitch

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

L'infiltrato

The Boys Next Door

On Broadway

The Affair

La trappola

Let It Shine

Heist 88

Blind Faith

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

Percy & Thunder

Violenza metropolitana

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

The Groveland Four

Terminator Genisys

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

Final Destination 5

La festa prima delle feste

La mummia

L'isola dei cani

La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Ben Is Back

The Fight

The Piano Lesson

Love and Action in Chicago

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Project Power

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Partners of the Heart

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

The Photograph: Gli scatti di mia madre

Il sommelier

Between the World and Me

Hurricane Season

The Acting Class

First Affair

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

Death Wish

The Emperor's New Clothes

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

Girl Dad

Boston Public

Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia

In famiglia e con gli amici

The View

Any Day Now

NOVA

Finding Your Roots

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Hallmark Hall of Fame

E.R. - Medici in prima linea

FlashForward