Laurence Fishburne

Acting · 5.5 popularity

Age

Movies

151

Born: July 30, 1961
From: Augusta, Georgia, USA
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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).

Works

151 films

The Matrix

19998.3

Man of Steel

20136.7

Ant-Man and the Wasp

20186.9

John Wick: Chapter 4

20237.7

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

20166.0

The Amateur

20256.9

Transformers One

20248.0

John Wick: Chapter 2

20177.3

The Matrix Reloaded

20037.1

The Matrix Revolutions

20036.8

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

20197.4

Event Horizon

19976.6

Mystic River

20037.7

Mission: Impossible III

20066.8

The Matrix Resurrections

20216.3

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

20075.6

The Mule

20186.9

Predators

20106.3

Boyz n the Hood

19917.6

Passengers

20167.0

Contagion

20116.7

20086.7

TMNT

20076.2

Red Heat

19886.2

The School for Good and Evil

20227.0

The Ice Road

20216.8

Ride Along

20146.3

The Astronaut

20256.1

Assault on Precinct 13

20056.2

Megalopolis

20245.2

The Colony

20135.5

The Color Purple

19857.7

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

20057.2

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Deep Cover

19926.8

King of New York

19906.8

Just Cause

19956.3

Slingshot

20246.1

Osmosis Jones

20016.5

The Signal

20146.0

Gatto

2027

Biker Boyz

20036.3

Hoodlum

19976.5

Death Wish II

19826.3

Bonnie

20225.3

All the Old Knives

20226.0

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

20076.2

Sneaks

20255.8

What's Love Got to Do with It

19937.1

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

19876.7

Searching for Bobby Fischer

19937.1

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Undercover Brother

20025.9

Khumba

20136.0

Akeelah and the Bee

20067.0

Bobby

20066.4

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Armored

20095.8

Fled

19965.7

Wick Is Pain

20257.4

Death to 2020

20206.5

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

20196.6

School Daze

19885.7

Standoff

20166.1

Running with the Devil

20195.4

Cherry 2000

19876.0

Cellar Door

20245.8

The Exorcist: Martyrs

2027

Quicksilver

19865.6

Higher Learning

19956.3

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Last Flag Flying

20176.7

Bad Company

19954.9

The Tuskegee Airmen

19957.1

Class Action

19916.3

Death to 2021

20216.0

Five Fingers

20066.0

Gardens of Stone

19876.2

The Matrix Revisited

20016.9

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

20226.2

Cadence

19906.7

Rudderless

20147.2

Band of the Hand

19866.2

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Megadoc

20256.5

Tortured

20085.5

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

20204.8

Ashes and Snow

20057.3

Othello

19956.4

Our Lady of 121st Street

2020

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

2026

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

20046.8

Under the Stadium Lights

20216.0

Spooge

2001

Michael Jordan to the Max

20007.5

Miss Evers' Boys

19976.5

Cornbread, Earl and Me

19756.9

Days of Wrath

20087.0

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

2013

Sex and the Matrix

20006.7

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

20156.0

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

The Black List: Volume Two

20096.0

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

20058.0

The Matrix Recalibrated

20046.9

Predators: Moments of Extraction

20104.2

Always Outnumbered

19986.4

Inheritance

2026

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

20036.1

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

Once in the Life

20004.8

Decoration Day

19906.9

A Man's Story

20116.9

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

201510.0

Predators: The Chosen

20103.0

Have a Little Faith

20116.6

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

20047.1

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

20047.0

Fast Break

19795.5

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

20222.5

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

20067.4

Thurgood

20116.5

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

2003

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

20112.0

The Snowy Day

20167.0

MTV Reloaded

20037.3

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

20078.5

I Take These Men

19835.0

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

19887.2

The Soul of a Man

20036.6

Imprisoned

20194.6

A History of Sex

20035.5

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

19725.0

Making "The Matrix"

19997.3

Rappin' With The Rickster

20102.0

Interference

2026

Slavery by Another Name

20127.2

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2007

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

2015

The Little Bedroom

2026

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

20036.0

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

20038.3

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

19837.0

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

19914.3

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

20047.3

Crimson Blues

2026

The Blacksmith

2026

Blacksmith

2026

Black Hollywood

19977.0

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

2007