Courtney B. Vance

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-03-12 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Courtney B. Vance

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 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 D...

Acting

1990

The Hunt for Red October

as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

1994

1987

Hamburger Hill

as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

2002

D-Tox

as Reverend Jones

2000

Space Cowboys

as Roger Hines

1996

The Preacher's Wife

as Reverend Henry Biggs

1995

1997

12 Angry Men

as Foreman

1999

Cookie's Fortune

as Otis Tucker

2010

Extraordinary Measures

as Marcus Temple

1995

1995

Dangerous Minds

as Mr. George Grandey

1995

Panther

as Bobby Seale

2008

Nothing But the Truth

as Agent O'Hara

2012

Joyful Noise

as Pastor Dale

2012

The Divide

as Delvin

2025

Lilo & Stitch

as Cobra Bubbles

1993

Beyond the Law

as Conroy Price

1996

The Boys Next Door

as Lucien P. Singer

2019

On Broadway

as Self (archive footage)

1995

The Affair

as Travis Holloway

1998

Ambushed

as Jerry Robinson

2012

Let It Shine

as Jacob

2023

Heist 88

as Jeremy Horne

1998

Blind Faith

as John Williams

1993

Percy & Thunder

as Wayne 'Thunder' Carter

1998

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

as Officer James Halloran

1998

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

as Officer James Halloran

2018

The Groveland Four

as Self - Narrator

2015

Terminator Genisys

as Miles Dyson

2011

Final Destination 5

as Agent Block

2016

Office Christmas Party

as Walter Davis

2017

The Mummy

as Colonel Greenway

2018

Isle of Dogs

as Narrator (voice)

2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

1992

2018

Ben Is Back

as Mr. Beeby

2005

The Fight

as Narrator (voice)

1995

1999

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Corey (segment "Fences")

2020

Project Power

as Captain Craine

2002

Partners of the Heart

as Vivien Thomas (voice)

2020

The Photograph

as Louis Morton

2020

Uncorked

as Louis

2009

Hurricane Season

as Mr. Randolph

2000

1983

First Affair

as Male Student #2

Production

2023

Heist 88

as Executive Producer

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