Courtney B. Vance

American actor

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2025 Set to play Cobra Bubbles in 'Lilo & Stitch' (post-production)
2025 Scheduled to play Zeus in Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2024 Nominated for NAACP Image Awards and Black Reel TV Awards for his performance in Heist 88
2024 Won Harvard Foundation's Artist of the Year Award
2024 Set to appear in Grotesquerie as Marshall Tryon in 9 episodes
November 2024 Announced as the new actor to play Zeus in the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, following Lance Reddick's passing.
October 2024 Vance voiced a commercial for Kamala Harris about Detroit.
2023 Cast in Disney's live-action reimagining of Lilo & Stitch as Cobra Bubbles.
2023 Starred in and executive produced 'Heist 88' as Jeremy Horne
2022 Began starring as Franklin Roberts in 61st Street, appearing in 16 episodes
2021 Received nominations for Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards for Lovecraft Country and Genius
2021 Appeared in National Geographic's Genius: Aretha as C. L. Franklin.
2021 Won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Lovecraft Country
2020 Won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as George Freeman in the HBO series 'Lovecraft Country'.
2020 Starred in three movies: 'The Photograph' as Louis Morton, 'Uncorked' as Louis, and 'Project Power' as Captain Crane
2020 Starred in Netflix original movie Uncorked, directed by Prentice Penny.
2019 Appointed president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
2019 Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Accessory to War
2018 Narrated Wes Anderson's stop motion animated comedy Isle of Dogs and appeared in Ben Is Back as Neil Beeby.
2017 Starred in HBO television film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, playing Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield opposite Oprah Winfrey.
2017 Appeared in 'The Mummy' as Army Colonel Greenway
2016 Won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Johnnie Cochran in 'The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story'.
2016 Received multiple award nominations for The People v. O.J. Simpson, including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Television Critics Association Awards
2016 Starred in 'Office Christmas Party' as Walter Davis
February 2 2016 Premiered in FX's American Crime Story as Johnnie Cochran, portraying the civil rights lawyer in the O. J. Simpson murder case series.
2015 Portrayed Miles Dyson in Terminator Genisys, acting opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emilia Clarke.
2013 Performed in Nora Ephron's Broadway play 'Lucky Guy', winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
2012 Appeared in Revenge as Benjamin Brooks in 4 episodes and starred in Let It Shine as Pastor Jacob DeBarge in a television film
2012 Appeared in two movies: 'Joyful Noise' as Pastor Dale and 'Let It Shine' as Pastor Jacob DeBarge
2011 Starred in the American horror film Final Destination 5 and was cast in the German-American apocalypse thriller The Divide.
2010 Courtney B. Vance appeared in the film 'Extraordinary Measures' as Marcus Temple
2010 Appeared as Chief Tommy Delk on the TNT series The Closer from 2010 to 2011 (Season 6–7).

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