
Laurence Fishburne
Born July 30, 1961 · Augusta, Georgia, USA
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
Movies

The Matrix

John Wick: Chapter 4

Man of Steel

The Matrix Reloaded

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

John Wick: Chapter 2

Transformers One

The Amateur

Apocalypse Now

Ant-Man and the Wasp

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

The Matrix Revolutions

Mission: Impossible III

The Matrix Resurrections

Event Horizon

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Predators

Mystic River

Passengers

The Ice Road

Megalopolis

The Mule

Boyz n the Hood

Contagion

Ride Along

Assault on Precinct 13

King of New York

The School for Good and Evil

All the Old Knives

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

21

Red Heat

The Astronaut

Gatto

The Color Purple

TMNT

Osmosis Jones

The Cotton Club

The Signal

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Rumble Fish

The Colony

Akeelah and the Bee

Last Flag Flying

Megadoc

Death Wish II

What's Love Got to Do with It

Deep Cover
TV Shows

CSI: Miami

Conan

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

CSI: NY

M*A*S*H

Miami Vice

black-ish

American Playhouse

Hill Street Blues

Tony Awards

The Equalizer

The Witcher

The Talk

What If...?

Hannibal

Trapper John, M.D.

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

grown-ish

The Oscars

Number One on the Call Sheet

Spenser: For Hire

Jay Leno's Garage

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

The Muppets

mixed-ish

History's Greatest Mysteries

The Civil War

MacGruber

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Roots

Top Gear

The Frame

The Magic Hour

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

The Blues

Clipped

A Rumor of War

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

#FreeRayshawn

MADtv

Year Million

Madiba

Inside the Actors Studio
More Movies

Just Cause

Wick Is Pain

Undercover Brother

Khumba

Running with the Devil

Slingshot

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Cellar Door

Death to 2021

Hoodlum

The Exorcist: Martyrs

Death to 2020

Higher Learning

Standoff

Cherry 2000

Biker Boyz

Sneaks

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Fled

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Gardens of Stone

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

School Daze

Band of the Hand

Armored

Five Fingers

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Bobby

Quicksilver

Class Action

The Tuskegee Airmen

Bonnie

Bad Company

Miss Evers' Boys

Welcome to Hollywood

A Man's Story

Once in the Life

Rudderless

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Michael Jordan to the Max

Tortured

Cadence

Sex and the Matrix

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

Othello

The Matrix Revisited

Under the Stadium Lights

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Cornbread, Earl and Me

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

I Take These Men

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

The Snowy Day

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

Have a Little Faith

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

Our Lady of 121st Street

A History of Sex

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

The Black List: Volume Two

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Days of Wrath

The Soul of a Man

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Predators: Moments of Extraction

Imprisoned

Willie & Phil

Ashes and Snow

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

Making "The Matrix"

MTV Reloaded

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Rappin' With The Rickster

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

The Matrix Recalibrated

Fast Break

Always Outnumbered

Decoration Day

Retro Wick: Exploring the Unexpected Success of 'John Wick'

Slavery by Another Name

Predators: The Chosen

Spooge

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Thurgood

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants




