Courtney B. Vance

Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He started his career on stage before moving to film and television. Vance has received various accolades, including a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for a Grammy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Vance trained at the Yale School of Drama. He starred in the original productions of August Wilson's ''Fences'' in 1985, earning his first Tony Award nomination. He continued acting in the Broadway productions of 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).

From 2001 to 2006 he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver in the NBC series ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''. He also guest-starred on ''Picket Fences'', ''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 appeared in the HBO film ''The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'' (2017), Nat Geo's limited series ''Genius: Aretha'' (2020), and the HBO series ''Lovecraft Country'' (2020), the latter earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

He has been married to actress Angela Bassett since 1997. He is on the Board of Directors of The Actors Center in New York City, and is an active supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In 2019, he was appointed president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Provided by Wikipedia