Laurence Fishburne
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Biography
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
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Tony Awards
CSI: Miami
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Oscars
MADtv
House
M*A*S*H
The Equalizer
Hill Street Blues
Trapper John, M.D.
What If...?
Miami Vice
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
grown-ish
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
black-ish
mixed-ish
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Matrix Resurrections
The Civil War
A Rumor of War
The Color Purple
Thunderbolts*
Gardens of Stone
Mission: Impossible III
TMNT
Megalopolis
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Higher Learning
Man of Steel
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ride Along
21
Transformers One
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Predators
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The School for Good and Evil
John Wick: Chapter 4
MacGruber
The Signal
Passengers
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Apocalypse Now
The Matrix Revisited
Mystic River
All the Old Knives
Pee-wee's Playhouse
The Ice Road
Hannibal
Last Flag Flying
The Mule
Contagion
The Matrix Recalibrated
Cellar Door
Boyz n the Hood
What's Love Got to Do with It
Slingshot
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix
The Black List: Volume Two
Akeelah and the Bee
Assault on Precinct 13
The Matrix Reloaded
The Six O'Clock Follies
The Tuskegee Airmen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Always Outnumbered
Clipped
Event Horizon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
History's Greatest Mysteries
Production Credits
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