Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of 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 in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), 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), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).

Known For

Homepage http://www.laurence-fishburne.com
Birth Location Augusta, Georgia, USA
Born 1961-07-30

Movies

Sneaks as The Collector (voice)
2024
Transformers One as Alpha Trion (voice)
2024
Slingshot as Captain Franks
2024
John Wick: Chapter 4 as Bowery King
2023
Bonnie as Self
2022
The School for Good and Evil as School Master
2022
All the Old Knives as Vick Wallinger
2022
Death to 2021 as Narrator (voice)
2021
The Ice Road as Jim Goldenrod
2021
Under the Stadium Lights as Harold Christian
2021
Death to 2020 as Narrator (voice)
2020
2020
Imprisoned as Daniel Calvin
2019
2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette as Paul Jellinek
2019
2019
The Mule as Special Agent in Charge
2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Bill Foster
2018
Last Flag Flying as Reverend Richard Mueller
2017
John Wick: Chapter 2 as Bowery King
2017
Passengers as Gus Mancuso
2016
The Snowy Day as Narrator
2016
Standoff as Sade
2016
Rudderless as Del
2014
The Signal as Dr. Wallace Damon
2014
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2014
Ride Along as Omar
2014
Khumba as Seko (voice)
2013
Man of Steel as Perry White
2013
The Colony as Briggs
2013
2012
Have a Little Faith as Henry Covington
2011
A Man's Story as Self
2011
Contagion as Ellis Cheever
2011
Thurgood as Thurgood Marshall
2011
2010
2010
Predators as Noland
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
2010
Armored as Baines
2009
2009
Tortured as Archie Green
2008
21 as Cole Williams
2008
2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
2007
TMNT as Narrator (voice)
2007
Bobby as Edward Robinson
2006
Five Fingers as Ahmat
2006
Akeelah and the Bee as Dr. Larabee
2006
Mission: Impossible III as Theodore Brassel
2006
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
2005
Ashes and Snow as Narrator (voice)
2005
Assault on Precinct 13 as Marion Bishop
2005
2003
The Soul of a Man as Self - Narrator
2003
The Matrix Reloaded as Morpheus
2003
MTV Reloaded as Morpheus (archive footage)
2003
Mystic River as Sergeant Whitey Powers
2003
Biker Boyz as Smoke
2003
A History of Sex as Himself
2003
The Matrix Revisited as Self - Morpheus
2001
Osmosis Jones as Thrax (voice)
2001
Once in the Life as 20 / 20 Mike
2000
Michael Jordan to the Max as Narrator (voice)
2000
1999
The Matrix as Morpheus
1999
Welcome to Hollywood as Laurence Fishburne
1998
Always Outnumbered as Socrates Fortlow
1998
Black Hollywood as Self
1997
Hoodlum as Bumpy Johnson
1997
Event Horizon as Miller
1997
Miss Evers' Boys as Caleb Humphries
1997
Fled as Piper
1996
Othello as Othello
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
1995
Just Cause as Sheriff Tanny Brown
1995
Bad Company as Nelson Crowe
1995
Higher Learning as Professor Maurice Phipps
1995
1993
Deep Cover as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
1992
Boyz n the Hood as Jason 'Furious' Styles
1991
Class Action as Nick Holbrook
1991
Decoration Day as Michael Waring, DOD Man
1990
Cadence as Roosevelt Stokes
1990
King of New York as Jimmy Jump
1990
Red Heat as Lt. Stobbs
1988
School Daze as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
1988
Cherry 2000 as Glu Glu Lawyer
1987
Gardens of Stone as Sgt. Flanagan
1987
Band of the Hand as Cream
1986
Quicksilver as Voodoo
1986
The Color Purple as Swain
1985
The Cotton Club as Bumpy Rhodes
1984
Rumble Fish as Midget
1983
I Take These Men as Hank Johnson
1983
Death Wish II as Cutter
1982
Willie and Phil as High School Student
1980
Apocalypse Now as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
1979
Fast Break as Street Kid
1979
Cornbread, Earl and Me as Wilford Robinson
1975
The Astronaut as General William Harris
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Crimson Blues as Mills
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Movies

Sneaks Producer
2024
The Cave of Adullam Executive Producer
2022
2022
Five Fingers Producer
2006
2006
Once in the Life Screenplay
2000
2000
Once in the Life Producer
2000
Once in the Life Director
2000
Always Outnumbered Executive Producer
1998
Hoodlum Executive Producer
1997
Miss Evers' Boys Executive Producer
1997