Courtney B. Vance
Gender: Male
Born: 12th March 1960 (currently 52 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: FlashForward, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Movies: Beyond the Law, D-Tox, Hamburger Hill, In the Line of Duty: Street War, Panther, The Last Supper, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Tuskegee Airmen, Naked City: Justice with a Bullet, Cookie's Fortune, Space Cowboys, 12 Angry Men, Holy Matrimony, The Hunt for Red October, Hurricane Season, Extraordinary Measures, Blind Faith, The Preacher's Wife, Ambushed, The Piano Lesson, Race to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad, The Affair, Nothing but the Truth, The Divide, The Affair, Final Destination 5, Love and Action in Chicago, Joyful Noise, The Fight: American Experience, Spawn, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives, Dangerous Minds
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He used to be a regular on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He was also a series regular on the ABC series FlashForward. As of 2011, he appears on the TNT series The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk.
Vance was born Courtney Bernard Vance in Detroit, Michigan on March 12, 1960, the son of Leslie, a librarian, and Conroy Vance, a grocery store manager and benefits administrator. He attended Detroit Country Day School, a fee-paying university-preparatory school, and later graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts degree. While attending Harvard, Vance was already working as an actor at the Boston Shakespeare Company. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree later at Yale School of Drama where he met future wife and fellow student Angela Bassett.
Vance has earned 2 Tony Award nominations, each in Tony Award-winning productions. He was nominated for his role in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences and for his lead role in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. In 1987, he won a Clarence Derwent Award for his role as Cory Maxson in Fences.
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