Courtney B. Vance
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1960-03-12
- Local de nascimento:
- 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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W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Lilo & Stitch
Death Wish
Grotesquerie
Grotesquerie
Percy Jackson e os Olimpianos
O Roubo de 88
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
61st Street
EUA: A Luta pela Liberdade
Between the World and Me
Lovecraft Country
Power
Notas de Rebeldia
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On Broadway
The Tamron Hall Show
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
O Retorno de Ben
The Groveland Four
Ilha dos Cachorros
A Múmia
Genius
A Vida Imortal de Henrietta Lacks
A Última Ressaca do Ano
American Crime Story
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
O Exterminador do Futuro: Gênesis
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Masters of Sex
Segredos do Paraíso
Let It Shine
Scandal: Os Bastidores do Poder
Finding Your Roots
Canção do Coração
O Abrigo
Revenge
Premonição 5
Temporada de Furacão
Decisões Extremas
Flashforward: Linha do Tempo
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Faces da Verdade
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Divisão Criminal
The Fight
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Gary the Rat
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Partners of the Heart
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
D-Tox
Lei & Ordem: Crimes Premeditados
Boston Public
Cowboys do Espaço
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
The Acting Class
Amor e Ação em Chicago
A Fortuna de Cookie
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Blind Faith
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Os Thornberrys
Any Day Now
Ambushed
12 Homens e uma Sentença
The View
Um Anjo em Minha Vida
The Boys Next Door
The Affair
O Último Jantar
Prova de Fogo
Mentes Perigosas
Panteras Negras
The Piano Lesson
ER: Plantão Médico
Santo Matrimônio
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
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À Sombra de um Disfarce
As Aventuras de Huck Finn
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Picket Fences
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
The Emperor's New Clothes
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Lei & Ordem
A Caçada ao Outubro Vermelho
American Experience
thirtysomething
Hamburger Hill
First Affair
NOVA
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards