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12 March 1960

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Detroit, MI

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Ron Carver on Law and Order: Criminal Intent

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Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He was formerly a regular on the NBC/USA television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He was also a series regular on the ABC series FlashForward. Currently appears on the TNT series The Closer as Chief Tommy Delk.

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Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He formerly starred as a regular in the NBC television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Ron Carver. He now appears on the ABC series FlashForward which began on September 24, 2009 and drew a 12.46 million in ratings. Vance was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Leslie, a librarian, and Conroy Vance, a grocery store manager and benefits administrator. He attended Detroit Country Day School, a fee-paying university-preparatory school, and later graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts degree. While attending Harvard, Vance was already working as an actor at the Boston Shakespeare Company. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree later at Yale School of Drama. Vance has earned two Tony Award nominations, each in Tony Award-winning productions. He was first nominated for his role in August Wilson`s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences and later for his lead role in John Guare`s Six Degrees of Separation. Prior to joining the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Vance appeared on the original Law & Order series twice: in a minor role in the first-season episode "By Hooker, By Crook", and in a major role in the fifth season episode "Rage". Vance`s feature film roles have won him steady praise. His early credits include Hamburger Hill, The Hunt for Red October, and The Last Supper. More recently, he appeared in Robert Altman`s Cookie`s Fortune, Penny Marshall`s The Preacher`s Wife, and in Clint Eastwood`s Space Cowboys. Vance also starred in the independent film Love and Action in Chicago, a romantic comedy which he also co-produced. Vance played Black Panther Bobby Seale in the Melvin and Mario Van Peebles docudrama Panther. In 2008 and 2009 he guest starred in the final season of ER alongside his wife, Angela Bassett. Vance is married to actress Angela Bassett. The couple`s first children were twins, son Slater Josiah and daughter Bronwyn Golden, born on January 27, 2006. He and Bassett authored a book, Friends: A Love Story. Vance is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City. Vance is a big supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He is an alumnus of the Detroit Boys & Girls Club, and was recently inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame for all of Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

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