Courtney B. Vance

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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.

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Courtney B. Vance

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for Silas Stone in The Flash: First Rises

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The Flash: First Rises

Long ago, young Barry Allen came home, just to discover that his mother was been killed, and his father accused. Barry grown up trying to prove his fathers inocence, he became a forensic scientist from the CCPD, always trying to be a hero. But a series of accidents, gave him super speed, and place him in the future, where he meets future's barry. He learn that his grown version is a superhero in Central City. He backs to the present, where he starts using his power to stop crime in his city. But he has to learn that, despite of the superspeed, He can't do everything, be a superhero, be a good boyfriend, a good friend, a good son, and try to find the truth about the murderer of Nora Allen, his mother.

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