Laurence Fishburne
Acting
- Born:
- 1961-07-30
- Place of birth:
- Augusta, Georgia, USA
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).
Known For
Filmography
The Exorcist: Martyrs
Gatto
The Astronaut
Megadoc
Wick Is Pain
Sneaks
The Amateur
Number One on the Call Sheet
Cellar Door
Megalopolis
Transformers One
Slingshot
Clipped
John Wick: Chapter 4
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Bonnie
The School for Good and Evil
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
All the Old Knives
Death to 2021
The Matrix Resurrections
MacGruber
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
What If...?
The Ice Road
Under the Stadium Lights
Death to 2020
History's Greatest Mysteries
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Our Lady of 121st Street
#FreeRayshawn
The Witcher
mixed-ish
Imprisoned
Running with the Devil
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
The Mule
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Ant-Man and the Wasp
grown-ish
Last Flag Flying
Retro Wick: Exploring the Unexpected Success of 'John Wick'
Year Million
John Wick: Chapter 2
Madiba
Passengers
The Snowy Day
Roots
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Standoff
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Jay Leno's Garage
The Muppets
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Rudderless
black-ish
The Signal
Ride Along
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
Khumba
Man of Steel
The Colony
The Frame
Hannibal
Slavery by Another Name
Have a Little Faith
A Man's Story
Contagion
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Thurgood
Top Gear
Conan
Predators: Moments of Extraction
The Talk
Predators
Rappin' With The Rickster
Predators: The Chosen
Armored
The Black List: Volume Two
Days of Wrath
Tortured
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
21
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
TMNT
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Bobby
Five Fingers
Akeelah and the Bee
Mission: Impossible III
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Ashes and Snow
Assault on Precinct 13
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
CSI: NY
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
The Matrix Recalibrated
The Matrix Revolutions
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Mystic River
The Blues
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
The Soul of a Man
The Matrix Reloaded
MTV Reloaded
Biker Boyz
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
A History of Sex
CSI: Miami
Undercover Brother
The Matrix Revisited
Spooge
Osmosis Jones
Once in the Life
Welcome to Hollywood
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sex and the Matrix
Michael Jordan to the Max
Making "The Matrix"
The Matrix
The Magic Hour
Always Outnumbered
Black Hollywood
Hoodlum
Event Horizon
The View
Miss Evers' Boys
The Daily Show
Fled
Othello
MADtv
The Tuskegee Airmen
Just Cause
Bad Company
Higher Learning
Inside the Actors Studio
Searching for Bobby Fischer
What's Love Got to Do with It
TriBeCa
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Deep Cover
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Boyz n the Hood
Class Action
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Decoration Day
Cadence
The Civil War
King of New York
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Red Heat
School Daze
Cherry 2000
Gardens of Stone
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Band of the Hand
Quicksilver
The Color Purple
Spenser: For Hire
The Equalizer
The Cotton Club
Miami Vice
Rumble Fish
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
I Take These Men
Death Wish II
American Playhouse
Hill Street Blues
A Rumor of War
Willie & Phil
The Six O'Clock Follies
Trapper John, M.D.
Apocalypse Now
Fast Break
Cornbread, Earl and Me
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
M*A*S*H
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Little Bedroom
Blacksmith
The Blacksmith
Crimson Blues
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Inheritance
Interference