Courtney B. Vance Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. He is notable for his roles in the feature film The Hunt for Red October and the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, in which he played Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He guest starred on the TNT series The Clo...
Yale School of Drama, Detroit Country Day School, Yale University, Harvard University
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Angela Bassett (m. 1997)
Children
Bronwyn Vance, Slater Vance
Parents
Conroy Vance, Leslie Vance
Siblings
Cecilie Vance
Nicknames
Courtney Bernard Vance , Courtney Vance
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie (2016), Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (2013), Obie Award for Performance (1990)
Nominations
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (1998), CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries (1995), NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, BET Award for Best Actor on Television,Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2016)
Movies
“Hamburger Hill: Hill 937” (1987), “The Hunt for Red October” (1990), “The Last Supper” (1995), “Dangerous Minds” (1995), “The Preacher's Wife” (1996), “The Mummy” (2017)
I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
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The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
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When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
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I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.
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Fact
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Release of the book, "Friends: A Love Story" by Courtney and his wife, Angela Bassett. [December 2006]
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In 1987, he competed with fellow "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" actor, Jamey Sheridan, for the same Supporting Actor Tony Award, which neither of them won. Sheridan's nomination that year was for playing the "All My Sons" role of "Chris Keller," which happened to be the character name of Christopher Meloni (another "Law & Order" actor) in the HBO series "Oz." The following year (1988) the same Tony Award for supporting actor was awarded to B. D. Wong, a featured actor on both "Law & Order" and "Oz.".
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Received a Tony Award (his first win after three nominations) for the Broadway play "Lucky Guy," in which he co-starred with Tom Hanks and Richard Masur.
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He and his wife, Angela Bassett, became the parents of twins a daughter Bronwyn Golden and son Slater Josiah, who were born on January 27, 2006, in California through a surrogate.
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It was at Harvard that he first became interested in theater, appearing in several college productions and becoming a member of the Boston Shakespeare Company.
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Won an off-Broadway Obie award in 1990 for his theater work in "My Children! My Africa!"
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Attended Detroit Country Day School in Birmingham, Michigan; graduated 1978.
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Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1987 as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for August Wilson's "Fences;" and in 1991 as Best Actor (Play) for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation."
$4 Million
