Courtney B. Vance
Courtney Bernard Vance ( born March 12, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American actor.
Biography
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and his Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. While studying at Harvard, he had worked at the Boston Shakespeare Company. To be a result of the work there, he succeeded twice for the Tony Award nominated ( both times in pieces that won a Tony Award ). For his role in August Wilson's Fences, which also won a Pulitzer Prize, he received the first nomination and his second for the lead role in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation.
His film roles have earned him much praise and honor. Vance had his first film roles in Hamburger Hill and Hunt for Red October. Notable roles in the films he had Cookie's Fortune - Cookie's Fortune by Robert Altman, in The Preacher's Wife (on the side of Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston ) and Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys.
His television credits include films such as Blind Faith ( for Vance received a nomination for Best Actor for the Independent Spirit Award ), 12 Angry Men ( alongside Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott and Ossie Davis), and The Tuskegee Airmen ( with Laurence Fishburne ). He has guest starred, among others, in the television series Boston Public. In 2011 he stood as Delvin in Xavier Gens horror science-fiction thriller "The Fallout " in front of the camera.
From 2001 to 2006 he played a leading role in the television series 's Criminal Intent - Crime Scene Investigation.
Since 1997 he has been married to actress Angela Bassett. The couple has two children.