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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Birthday: 1961-07-30 | Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA

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).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
All the Old Knives

as    Vick Wallinger

2021
MacGruber

as    General Barrett Fasoose

2021
Under the Stadium Lights

as    Harold Christian

2021
The Ice Road

as    Jim Goldenrod

2021
Death to 2021

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
History's Greatest Mysteries

as    Self - Host

2020
#FreeRayshawn

as    Steven Poincy

2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

as    Bowery King

2019
Imprisoned

as    Daniel Calvin

2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette

as    Paul Jellinek

2019
Running with the Devil

as    The Man

2018
The Mule

as    Special Agent in Charge

2017
John Wick: Chapter 2

as    Bowery King

2017
Year Million

as    Narrator

2017
Madiba

as    Nelson Mandela

2017
Last Flag Flying

as    Reverend Richard Mueller

2016
Roots

as    Alex Haley

2016
Passengers

as    Gus Mancuso

2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

as    Perry White

2016
Standoff

as    Sade

2014
Rudderless

as    Del

2014
The Signal

as    Dr. Wallace Damon

2014
Ride Along

as    Omar

2013
The Colony

as    Briggs

2013
Hannibal

as    Jack Crawford

2013
Man of Steel

as    Perry White

2013
Khumba

as    Seko (voice)