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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| 1 | Lilo & Stitch (2025) | Cobra Bubbles | 6.8 | |
| 2 | Heist 88 (2023) | Jeremy Horne | - | - |
| 3 | The Photograph (2020) | Louis Morton | 4 | |
| 4 | Project Power (2020) | Captain Craine | 6.6 | |
| 5 | Between the World and Me (2020) | Self | - | - |
| 6 | Uncorked (2020) | Louis | 6 | |
| 7 | Ben Is Back (2018) | Mr. Beeby | 6.8 | |
| 8 | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Narrator (voice) | 7.8 | |
| 9 | The Mummy (2017) | Colonel Greenway | 5.8 | |
| 10 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) | Sir Lord Keenan Coefield | 7 | |
| 11 | Office Christmas Party (2016) | Walter Davis | 7 | |
| 12 | Terminator Genisys (2015) | Miles Dyson | 6.6 | |
| 13 | The Divide (2012) | Delvin | 5.7 | |
| 14 | Let It Shine (2012) | Jacob | 5.5 | |
| 15 | Joyful Noise (2012) | Pastor Dale | 6.3 | |
| 16 | Final Destination 5 (2011) | Agent Block | 6.2 | |
| 17 | Hurricane Season (2010) | Mr. Randolph | 5 | |
| 18 | Extraordinary Measures (2010) | Marcus Temple | 6.6 | |
| 19 | Nothing but the Truth (2008) | Agent O'Hara | 6.9 | |
| 20 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) | Other Voices (voice) | - | - |
| 21 | D-Tox (2002) | Reverend Jones | 4.8 | |
| 22 | Space Cowboys (2000) Oscars 2001 | Roger Hines | 6.4 | |
| 23 | Cookie's Fortune (1999) | Otis Tucker | - | - |
| 24 | Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998) | Officer James Halloran | - | - |
| 25 | Ambushed (1998) | Jerry Robinson | - | - |
| 26 | 12 Angry Men (1997) | Foreman | 7.7 | |
| 27 | The Preacher's Wife (1996) | Reverend Henry Biggs | 7.5 | |
| 28 | The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) | Lt. Glenn | 7 | |
| 29 | Dangerous Minds (1995) | Mr. George Grandey | 6.8 | |
| 30 | The Last Supper (1995) | Luke | 7 | |
| 31 | Holy Matrimony (1994) | Cooper | 7 | |
| 32 | Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994) | Thomas | - | - |
| 33 | The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) | Jim | 6.3 | |
| 34 | The Hunt for Red October (1990) | Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas) | 7.6 | |
| 35 | Hamburger Hill (1987) | Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson | 8 |
