Laurence Fishburne

Acting · 5.3 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

Ant-Man and the Wasp

20186.9

Man of Steel

20136.7

John Wick: Chapter 4

20237.7

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

20166.0

The Amateur

20256.9

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Transformers One

20248.0

The Matrix Reloaded

20037.1

John Wick: Chapter 2

20177.3

The Matrix Revolutions

20036.8

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

20197.4

Mission: Impossible III

20066.8

The Matrix Resurrections

20216.3

Event Horizon

19976.6

Mystic River

20037.7

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

20075.6

Predators

20106.3

The Mule

20186.9

Contagion

20116.7

Boyz n the Hood

19917.6

Passengers

20167.0

TMNT

20076.2

20086.7

The Ice Road

20216.8

The School for Good and Evil

20227.0

Red Heat

19886.2

Ride Along

20146.3

Megalopolis

20245.2

Hoodlum

19976.5

The Astronaut

20256.1

The Color Purple

19857.7

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

20057.2

Assault on Precinct 13

20056.2

Deep Cover

19926.8

The Colony

20135.5

King of New York

19906.8

Slingshot

20246.1

Gatto

2027

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Osmosis Jones

20016.5

The Signal

20146.0

Biker Boyz

20036.3

Just Cause

19956.3

Death Wish II

19826.3

Searching for Bobby Fischer

19937.1

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

20076.2

All the Old Knives

20226.0

Undercover Brother

20025.9

Sneaks

20255.8

Armored

20095.8

What's Love Got to Do with It

19937.1

Khumba

20136.0

The Cotton Club

19846.5

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

19876.7

Akeelah and the Bee

20067.0

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Cherry 2000

19876.0

Death to 2020

20206.5

Wick Is Pain

20257.4

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

20196.6

Fled

19965.7

School Daze

19885.7

Standoff

20166.1

Bobby

20066.4

Bonnie

20225.3

Running with the Devil

20195.4

Cellar Door

20245.8

Class Action

19916.3

Last Flag Flying

20176.7

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Bad Company

19954.9

The Exorcist: Martyrs

2027

Higher Learning

19956.3

Quicksilver

19865.6

The Tuskegee Airmen

19957.1

Cadence

19906.7

Death to 2021

20216.0

Gardens of Stone

19876.2

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Tortured

20085.5

Band of the Hand

19866.2

Rudderless

20147.2

The Matrix Revisited

20016.9

Five Fingers

20066.0

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

20226.2

Megadoc

20256.5

Ashes and Snow

20057.3

Spooge

2001

Othello

19956.4

Miss Evers' Boys

19976.5

Always Outnumbered

19986.4

A Man's Story

20116.9

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

20046.8

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

2026

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

20058.0

Predators: Moments of Extraction

20104.2

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

20036.1

Days of Wrath

20087.0

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Under the Stadium Lights

20216.0

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

Inheritance

2026

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

2013

Once in the Life

20004.8

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

20047.1

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

19887.2

Cornbread, Earl and Me

19756.9

Have a Little Faith

20116.6

Our Lady of 121st Street

2020

The Black List: Volume Two

20096.0

Michael Jordan to the Max

20007.5

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

20204.8

Sex and the Matrix

20006.7

The Matrix Recalibrated

20046.9

Decoration Day

19906.9

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

20112.0

Making "The Matrix"

19997.4

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

20222.5

A History of Sex

20035.5

Predators: The Chosen

20103.0

Slavery by Another Name

20127.2

The Snowy Day

20167.0

Imprisoned

20194.6

Rappin' With The Rickster

20102.0

Interference

2026

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

20078.5

MTV Reloaded

20037.3

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

20156.0

The Soul of a Man

20036.6

Fast Break

19795.5

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

201510.0

I Take These Men

19835.0

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

19725.0

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

20067.4

Thurgood

20116.5

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

19914.3

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

20047.0

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

19837.0

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

2015

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

20036.0

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2007

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

2003

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

20038.3

The Little Bedroom

2026

Crimson Blues

2026

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

20047.3

The Blacksmith

2026

Black Hollywood

19977.0

Blacksmith

2026

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

2007