
Laurence Fishburne
Born: 1961-07-30
Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Biography
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).
Known For

The Matrix

John Wick: Chapter 4

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The Amateur

The Matrix Reloaded

The Astronaut

Man of Steel

John Wick: Chapter 2

Predators

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Transformers One

Apocalypse Now

The Matrix Revolutions

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Mission: Impossible III

Mystic River

The School for Good and Evil

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

21

Sneaks

Passengers

Event Horizon

The Ice Road

Slingshot

Hoodlum

Rumble Fish

Contagion

Red Heat

The Mule

The Color Purple

Ride Along

Boyz n the Hood

Biker Boyz

Megalopolis

Standoff

Class Action

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Deep Cover

Cellar Door

Bobby

Osmosis Jones

TMNT

King of New York

Fled

Cadence

Imprisoned

The Colony

Khumba

Fast Break

Willie & Phil

Five Fingers

Always Outnumbered

Bonnie

A Man's Story

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Quicksilver

Bad Company

Have a Little Faith

The Signal

Tortured

Decoration Day

The Cotton Club

Wick Is Pain

Thurgood

All the Old Knives

Death Wish II

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A History of Sex

Assault on Precinct 13

Just Cause

Akeelah and the Bee

The Matrix Revisited

Megadoc

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Sex and the Matrix

The Tuskegee Airmen

Running with the Devil

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

School Daze

Higher Learning

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

What's Love Got to Do with It

Armored

Cherry 2000

Othello

Rudderless

Death to 2020

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

Last Flag Flying

Death to 2021

Rappin' With The Rickster

Spooge

Gardens of Stone

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Welcome to Hollywood

I Take These Men

Band of the Hand

The Matrix Recalibrated

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

MTV Reloaded

Once in the Life

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Under the Stadium Lights

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

Miss Evers' Boys

Ashes and Snow

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Michael Jordan to the Max

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

The Snowy Day

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

Days of Wrath

Our Lady of 121st Street

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

Predators: The Chosen

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

Predators: Moments of Extraction

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Making 'The Matrix'

The Soul of a Man

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

Slavery by Another Name

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Crimson Blues

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

The Black List: Volume Two
