Laurence Fishburne
Biography
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-07-30
Place of birth
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Images
Cast
Apocalypse Now
1979
8.27
Rumble Fish
1983
6.98
Mystic River
2003
7.75
The Color Purple
1985
7.80
Mission: Impossible III
2006
6.70
TMNT
2007
6.14
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
7.06
The Matrix
1999
8.20
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
6.74
Boyz n the Hood
1991
7.63
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
6.10
Bobby
2006
6.42
Armored
2009
5.73
Deep Cover
1992
6.75
Quicksilver
1986
5.57
Bonnie
2022
5.00
Sneaks
2025
5.40
Hoodlum
1997
6.40
The Astronaut
2025
0.00
Five Fingers
2006
6.02
21
2008
6.69
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
7.06
Event Horizon
1997
6.54
Black Hollywood
1997
0.00
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
6.17
Biker Boyz
2003
6.22
Just Cause
1995
6.23
Osmosis Jones
2001
6.50
King of New York
1990
6.73
Always Outnumbered
1998
6.40
Red Heat
1988
6.24
Band of the Hand
1986
6.28
Tortured
2008
5.40
Predators
2010
6.28
Cadence
1990
6.70
Gardens of Stone
1987
6.30
Bad Company
1995
4.80
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
7.08
The Matrix Revisited
2001
6.80
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
7.07
School Daze
1988
5.71
Death Wish II
1982
6.26
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975
6.68
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
7.09
Cherry 2000
1987
5.99
Slingshot
2024
6.10
Once in the Life
2000
4.58
Higher Learning
1995
6.33
Othello
1995
6.37
Contagion
2011
6.64
Transformers One
2024
8.08
Death to 2021
2021
6.00
Fled
1996
5.56
Man of Steel
2013
6.63
The Amateur
2025
6.64
Thurgood
2011
6.23
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
7.72
Have a Little Faith
2011
6.43
Decoration Day
1990
7.00
The Soul of a Man
2003
6.46
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
6.30
A History of Sex
2003
5.38
Ride Along
2014
6.26
Khumba
2013
6.00
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
6.70
The Colony
2013
5.45
Megalopolis
2024
5.27
Rudderless
2014
7.19
The Signal
2014
6.00
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
7.40
The Cotton Club
1984
6.53
Black Water Transit
2009
4.25
Standoff
2016
6.00
Class Action
1991
6.30
Days of Wrath
2008
5.50
Spooge
2001
0.00
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
7.33
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000
7.30
Passengers
2016
6.95
Sex and the Matrix
2000
6.40
Blacksmith
0.00
Last Flag Flying
2017
6.78
The Snowy Day
2016
7.00
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
6.00
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
7.40
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
6.60
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
3.60
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
6.92
A Man's Story
2011
6.90
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004
7.40
Willie and Phil
1980
4.33
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
2.00
Ashes and Snow
2005
7.20
Running with the Devil
2019
5.38
The Mule
2018
6.86
Imprisoned
2019
5.04
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005
7.17
MTV Reloaded
2003
7.30
Fast Break
1979
4.69
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004
6.70
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
6.99
The Ice Road
2021
6.81
Making 'The Matrix'
1999
7.17
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
7.00
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
6.07
The Blacksmith
0.00
Predators: The Chosen
2010
5.90
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
4.30
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020
0.00
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
6.00
Slavery by Another Name
2012
7.20
All the Old Knives
2022
6.02
Death to 2020
2020
6.50
The School for Good and Evil
2022
7.05
Crimson Blues
0.00
Under the Stadium Lights
2021
6.03
Cellar Door
2024
6.00
I Take These Men
1983
1.00
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
4.75
Lynch/Oz
2023
7.20
Hannibal: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
0.00
Wick Is Pain
2025
7.67
