Courtney B. Vance
ActingBorn
March 12, 1960
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Girl Dad
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Lilo & Stitch
2025
Death Wish
2024
Heist 88
2023
Between the World and Me
2020
Project Power
2020
Uncorked
2020
The Photograph
2020
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
2020
On Broadway
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Ben Is Back
2018
The Groveland Four
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
The Mummy
2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
Office Christmas Party
2016
Terminator Genisys
2015
Let It Shine
2012
Joyful Noise
2012
The Divide
2012
Final Destination 5
2011
Hurricane Season
2010
Extraordinary Measures
2010
Nothing But the Truth
2008
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
The Fight
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Partners of the Heart
2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2002
D-Tox
2002
Space Cowboys
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Acting Class
2000
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
Cookie's Fortune
1999
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
Blind Faith
1998
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
Ambushed
1998
12 Angry Men
1997
The Preacher's Wife
1996
The Boys Next Door
1996
The Affair
1995
The Last Supper
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Dangerous Minds
1995
Panther
1995
The Piano Lesson
1995
Holy Matrimony
1994
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
1994
Percy & Thunder
1993
Beyond the Law
1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
The Emperor's New Clothes
1992
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
The Hunt for Red October
1990
Hamburger Hill
1987
First Affair
1983
Grotesquerie
2024
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
Sherri
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
61st Street
2022
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
Lovecraft Country
2020
Tamron Hall
2019
Genius
2017
American Crime Story
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Masters of Sex
2013
Graceland
2013
Scandal
2012
Finding Your Roots
2012
Revenge
2011
FlashForward
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Closer
2005
The Closer
2005
Gary the Rat
2003
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Boston Public
2000
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Any Day Now
1998
The View
1997
The View
1997
ER
1994
Picket Fences
1992
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order
1990
American Experience
1988
thirtysomething
1987
NOVA
1974
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Golden Globe Awards
1944