Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States on March 12th, 1960 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 64, Courtney B. Vance biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
In 1985, Vance began his acting career as Cory in the Yale Repertory Theatre performance of August Wilson's Best Play-winning play Fences. Vance performed on Broadway opposite James Earl Jones, where he received a Clarence Derwent Award for his performance from 1987 to 1988. He was also nominated for the Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role.
In 1987 American war film Hamburger Hill about the 1969 invasion during the Vietnam War, Vance's film debut was made.
In 1991, Vance returned to Broadway in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. He appeared alongside John Cunningham and Stockard Channing. For his role at the 45th Tony Awards, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Vance continued to act in a number of popular films, including The Hunt for Red October (1990) and The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993). In the Melvin and Mario Van Peebles docudrama Panther, Vance played Black Panther Bobby Seale. He appeared in The Last Supper and Dangerous Minds earlier this year. He worked with respected directors, including Robert Altman in Cookie's Fortune, Penny Marshall in The Preacher's Wife, and Clint Eastwood in Space Cowboys.
Vance appeared in numerous television shows during the 1990s, including Law & Order, Picket Fences, and Thirtysomething. He appeared in made-for-television films including Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men, in which he appeared alongside Ossie Davis, George C. Scott, Jack Lemmon, Hume Cronyn, and James Gandolfini. In 1999, Vance appeared in and co-produced Love and Action in Chicago.
Vance appeared in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which was in which he appeared A.D.A. Ron Carver. For his appearance in a Drama Series, he was selected for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. In 2008 and 2009, he appeared in the last season of ER with his wife Angela Bassett. He was also in hurricane season.
In the ABC pilot FlashForward, based on a Robert J. Sawyer book and billed as a potential "companion show" to Lost, Vance was cast as the Los Angeles bureau chief of the FBI. He appeared in the American horror film Final Destination 5 in 2011. In the German-American apocalypse thriller The Divide, Vance was selected for the leading role.
He appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie Let It Shine, in which he played Jacob Debarge, the main character's father, and co-starred Tyler James Williams, Trevor Jackson, Coco Jones, Brandon Mychal Smith, and Dawnn Lewis. It was the third time Vance portrayed a pastor in a motion picture after The Preacher's Wife and Joyful Noise).
The voiceover for the National Football League's "You Want the NFL, Go to the NFL" television spots has been provided by Vance.
Chief Tommy Delk appeared on TNT's The Closer from 2010 to 2011 (Season 6–7). Attorney Benjamin Brooks appeared in four episodes of ABC's Revenge, as Vance. Miles Dyson appeared in Terminator Genisys opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emilia Clarke in 2015.
At the 67th Tony Awards (2013), he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his appearance as Hap Hairston in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy.
In FX's American Crime Story, which tells the tale of the O. J. Simpson murder case, he played Johnnie Cochran in 2016. His role was critically acclaimed, winning the Vance Emmy Award for his Vance.
He narrated Wes Anderson's stop motion animated comedy Isle of Dogs in 2017. He appeared in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a HBO television film in which he played Sir Lord Keenan Cofield opposite Oprah Winfrey's Deborah Lacks.
In 2018, Neil Beeby appeared in Peter Hedges' film Ben Is Back, opposite Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges. In Prentice Penny's debut film directorial debut, the Netflix original film Uncorked, he was cast opposite Niecy Nash.
Vance was elected President of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in 2019.
Vance appeared in HBO's drama series Lovecraft Country in 2020, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series nomination. He appeared in National Geographic's Genius: Aretha as C. L. Franklin in 2021.