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Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Isle of Dogs (2018). Vance is also known for work on television on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He also guest-starred on Law & Order, Picket Fences, The Closer, Revenge, Scandal, and Masters of Sex. He won acclaim for his portrayal of Johnnie Cochran in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He recently appeared in the HBO television film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), National Geographic's limited series Genius: Aretha (2020), and the HBO drama series Lovecraft Country (2020) the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has been married to actress Angela Bassett since 1997. Vance is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, and is an active supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In 2019, Vance was appointed as the President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
Courtney B. Vance
Joe West
for Joe West in Flash: The Scarlet Speedster (2008)
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Young police scientist Barry Allen is struck by lightning, miraculously surviving, he realizes that he has gained super-human speed. Inspired by the recently debuted superheroes, he designs a suit and calls himself Flash, after a famous speedster from the 40s. As he struggles to get used to his new powers, Flash frequently clashes with the Rogues, a team of criminals who were recently equipped with advanced technology by an unknown source. Barry's friend and engineer Clyde Mardon is mysteriously killed and his creations are stolen, which causes his brother Mark to swear revenge, using the only invention that the attackers couldn’t find, an advanced staff that can affect the weather. Barry and Iris investigate and discover that the technology used by the Rogues is connected to Russell Glosson, an elderly inventor, who killed Clyde in order to steal his technology. It’s revealed that Glosson is the Turtle, an old enemy of the original Flash, and helped the Rogues out of disgust that someone has followed on his nemesis’ legacy. Turtle uses an advanced suit that can slow down reality around him, but is defeated by Flash and Mark Mardon. Mark brutally beats Turtle but is stopped by Flash. In the aftermath, Flash settles in as Central City’s hero while Mark joins the Rogues with the alias Weather Wizard.
