Courtney B. Vance

Acting · Born 1960-03-12 in 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 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…

Filmography

• The Hunt for Red October as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
• 12 Angry Men as Foreman
• Dangerous Minds as Mr. George Grandey
• Nothing But the Truth as Agent O'Hara
• Lilo & Stitch as Cobra Bubbles
• Let It Shine as Jacob
• Isle of Dogs as Narrator (voice)
• Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers as Reader
• Holy Matrimony as Cooper
• Hamburger Hill as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

TV

• ER as Russell Banfield
• The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk
• The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Boston Public as Walter Harrelson
• Law & Order as Mayor's Assistant
• thirtysomething
• The View as Self
• Any Day Now
• NOVA as Narrator
• Finding Your Roots as Self