Courtney B. Vance pictures & biography

Hot Videos

Female Celeb
Wallpapers

Courtney B. Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He formerly starred as a regular in the NBC television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Ron Carver. His character was to be replaced by Marvin Gaye's daughter Nona Gaye, but she left the show within a few days citing creative differences. She has since been temporarily replaced by Theresa Randle.

Vance was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School, a fee-paying university-preparatory school, and later graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree and the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts degree. While attending Harvard, Vance was already working as an actor at the Boston Shakespeare Company. He went on to earn two Tony Award nominations, each in Tony Award-winning productions. He was first nominated for his role in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences and later for his lead role in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation.

Vance's feature-film roles have won him steady praise. His early credits include Hamburger Hill, The Hunt for Red October, and The Last Supper. More recently, he appeared in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, Penny Marshall's The Preacher's Wife, and in Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys. Vance also starred in the independent film Love and Action in Chicago, a romantic comedy which he also co-produced. Vance played Black Panther Bobby Seale in the Melvin and Mario Van Peebles docudrama Panther.

Vance's television credits include such cable movies as:

* Blind Faith (opposite Charles S. Dutton), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor in 1999)
* the 1997 William Friedkin-directed 12 Angry Men (with Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott and Ossie Davis)
* the Hallmark presentation The Boys Next Door (alongside Nathan Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Michael Jeter)
* The Tuskegee Airmen (with Laurence Fishburne and Andre Braugher)
* the television production of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson
* The Affair, for which he received a 1996 CableACE Award nomination as Best Actor
* the Showtime presentation Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Personal life

Courtney B. Vance is married to actress Angela Bassett. The couple's first children were twins, son Slater Josiah and daughter Bronwyn Golden, born on January 27, 2006. The twins were carried by a surrogate mother.

He coauthored a book Friends: A Love Story with his wife.

Latest news about Courtney B. Vance

"FlashForward's" Courtney B. Vance Wins Over Court with 'Retarded ... TV Show Title: FLASHFORWARD Retarded Donut Man Speech - Watch more Funny Videos In case you missed Rosie O'Donnell going full retard over the. Continue reading Drinking with The Stars: 'Flash Forward's' Courtney B. Vance - KTV ... Come drinking with Korbi and “Flash Forward”s' Courtney B. Vance... Continue reading Film Review Online » Blog Archive » FlashForward – Courtney B ... In the series, Courtney B Vance plays Stanford Wedeck, the head of the Los Angeles division of the FBI, and Christine Woods portrays his colleague, Janis Hawk. Sitting together in 'Wedeck's' office, I spoke with them about the unique ... Continue reading FlashForward — 1.08 “Playing Cards with Coyote” Press Release ... Zachary Knighton as Bryce Varley, Peyton List as Nicole Kirby, Dominic Monaghan as Simon, Br'an F. O'Byrne as Aaron Stark, Courtney B. Vance as Stanford Wedeck, Sonya Walger as Olivia Benford and Christine Woods as Janis Hawk. ... Continue reading David S. Goyer was fated to create 'FlashForward' - KansasCity.com The writing is what’s really impressive about “FlashForward,” says Courtney B. Vance, who plays the director of the FBI’s L.A. field office. “This is one of the finest pilots on the page ... Continue reading FlashForward: The Gift Review - Mania.com TV Series: FlashForward; Episode: The Gift; Starring: Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Jack Davenport, Dominic Monaghan, Peyton List, Zachary Knighton, Sonya Walger and Courtney B. Vance; Written By: Lisa Zwerling and Ian B. Goldberg ... Continue reading FlashForward TV Show - Gimme Some Truth - FlashForward Recaps ... Anyway, Mark admits to FBI Boss Dude Courtney B. Vance that his flashforward is sketchy because he was sloshed to the gills, and this really irks FBI Boss Dude Courtney B. Vance. (Does it irk him enough to text Olivia that Mark was ... Continue reading Courtney B. Vance and Christine Woods Speak on FlashForward ... Courtney B. Vance and Christine Woods star on FlashForward. In a new interview, they speak on their characters. Continue reading Celebrity Astrology: Courtney B. Vance (Pisces) Courtney B. Vance (Pisces) date of birth March 12, 1960. Courtney is a graduate of Harvard, and the Yale Drama School. He won an award for his theater work in "My Children, My Africa", and is a member of the Boston Shakespeare Company. ... Continue reading FlashForwardTV | Interview with Courtney B. Vance and Christine Woods As Director of the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI, Courtney B. Vance has a role of authority as Stanford Wedeck on the new hit ABC drama series Flash. Continue reading Hollywood Actors Jessica alba Courtney B. Vance pictures and Courtney B. Vance biography

List of celebrities

Pauleen Luna Paulina Rubio Pen�lope Cruz Pepe Aguilar Perizaad Zorabian Peter Dinklage Peter Fonda Pierce Brosnan Pilar Montenegro Piolo Pascual Plutarco Haza Polo Polo Polo Ur�as Pooja Batra Pooja Bhatt Pops Fernandez Precious Lara Quigaman Preeti Jhangiani Preity Zinta Priyanka Chopra Queen Latifah Quentin Tarantino Rachel Alejandro Rachel Weisz Rachelle Ann Go Radha Mitchell Rahul Dev Rahul Khanna Raima Sen Rainier Castillo Raizo Ichikawa Rakhi Sawant Randy Quaid Randy Stone Rani Mukherjee Rashida Jones Ra�l Velasco Raveena Tandon Ray Liotta Ray Winstone Raymond Guti�rrez Rayver Cruz Rebecca Romijn Reese Witherspoon Regine Velasquez Ren Osugi Renato Bartilotti Ren� Mu�oz Rhona Mitra Rica Peralejo Richard Beymer Richard Gere Richard Gutierrez Rigo Tovar Rinko Kikuchi Rio Diaz Rip Torn Rita Moreno Riya Sen Robert De Niro Complete list of all celebrities