Birth Name: Courtney Bernard Vance
Place of Birth: Detroit, MI
Date of Birth: March 12, 1960
Ethnicity: African-American (including ancestry from Nigeria, Ivory Coast/Ghana, Cameroon/Congo, and Senegal)
Family Background: Courtney B. Vance is an American actor. When Courtney got DNA tested on the show, “Finding Your Roots” he came up as 85.5% African, 11.8% European, and less than 1 percent Native American. By the African categories Courtney B. Vance’s DNA results were most likely from ancestry DNA.
Source: Finding Your Roots season 2 book page 43-45
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