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).
Filmography
all 193
Movies 145
self 51
TV Shows 48
Voice 6
Producer 5
Narrator 5
The Amateur (2024)
Sneaks (2024)
Transformers One (2024)
Slingshot (2024)
Clipped (2024)
Megalopolis (2024)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023)
Bonnie (2022)
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
The Cave of Adullam (2022)
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special (2022)
All the Old Knives (2022)
Death to 2021 (2021)
MacGruber (2021)
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021)
What If...? (2021)
The Ice Road (2021)
Under the Stadium Lights (2021)
Death to 2020 (2020)
History's Greatest Mysteries (2020)
Ricky Powell: The Individualist (2020)
Our Lady of 121st Street (2020)
#FreeRayshawn (2020)
Giving Voice (2020)
mixed-ish (2019)
Imprisoned (2019)
Running with the Devil (2019)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
The Mule (2018)
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
grown-ish (2018)
Last Flag Flying (2017)
Year Million (2017)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Madiba (2017)
Passengers (2016)
The Snowy Day (2016)
Roots (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Standoff (2016)
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League (2016)
Jay Leno's Garage (2015)
The Muppets (2015)
Sean Connery: In His Own Words (2015)
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
Rudderless (2014)
black-ish (2014)
Hannibal: This Is My Design (2014)
The Signal (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Ride Along (2014)
Khumba (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)
The Colony (2013)
The Frame (2013)
Hannibal (2013)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Have a Little Faith (2011)
A Man's Story (2011)
Contagion (2011)
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' (2011)
Thurgood (2011)
Top Gear (2010)
Conan (2010)
Predators: Moments of Extraction (2010)
Predators: The Chosen (2010)
Predators (2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Rappin' With The Rickster (2010)
Armored (2009)
Black Water Transit (2009)
The Black List: Volume Two (2009)
Days of Wrath (2008)
Tortured (2008)
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (2008)
21 (2008)
The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
TMNT (2007)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions (2006)
Bobby (2006)
Five Fingers (2006)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
The Making of 'Event Horizon' (2006)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Ashes and Snow (2005)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited (2004)
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase (2004)
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited (2004)
Tiger (2004)
The Matrix Recalibrated (2004)
The Dream Studio (2004)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load (2003)
The Blues (2003)
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend (2003)
A Century of Black Cinema (2003)
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003)
The Soul of a Man (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
MTV Reloaded (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
Biker Boyz (2003)
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
A History of Sex (2003)
CSI: Miami (2002)
The Matrix Revisited (2001)
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Once in the Life (2000)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Sex and the Matrix (2000)
Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)
Making 'The Matrix' (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Welcome to Hollywood (1998)
The Magic Hour (1998)
Always Outnumbered (1998)
Black Hollywood (1997)
Hoodlum (1997)
Event Horizon (1997)
The View (1997)
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Fled (1996)
1996 VH1 Honors (1996)
Othello (1995)
MADtv (1995)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Just Cause (1995)
Bad Company (1995)
Higher Learning (1995)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
TriBeCa (1993)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Deep Cover (1992)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Class Action (1991)
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)
Decoration Day (1990)
Cadence (1990)
The Civil War (1990)
King of New York (1990)
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Red Heat (1988)
School Daze (1988)
Cherry 2000 (1987)
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Apocalypse Pooh (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Band of the Hand (1986)
Quicksilver (1986)
The Color Purple (1985)
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
The Equalizer (1985)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Miami Vice (1984)
Rumble Fish (1983)
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
I Take These Men (1983)
Death Wish II (1982)
Hill Street Blues (1981)
A Rumor of War (1980)
Willie and Phil (1980)
The Six O'Clock Follies (1980)
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Fast Break (1979)
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)
M*A*S*H (1972)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Blacksmith
The Little Bedroom
The Astronaut
Crimson Blues
Fencer
Tau Ceti Foxtrot
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1961-07-30 (62 years old)
Birth NameLaurence John Fishburne III
Birth PlaceAugusta, United States of America
RelationshipsHajna O. Moss (1985-01-01 - 1990-01-01), Gina Torres (2002-09-22 - 2018-01-01)
ChildrenMontana Fishburne
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesHollywood, United States of America
Also Known AsLarry Fishburne, لورنس فيشبورن, 로런스 피시번, ローレンス・フィッシュバーン, Лоренс Фишберн, 勞倫斯·費許朋, Laurence John Fishburne, Λώρενς Τζον Φίσμπερν, Λώρενς Φίσμπερν, 劳伦斯·菲什伯恩, ローレンス・ジョン・フィッシュバーン
AwardsAudie Award for Best Male Narrator, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Theatre World Award, MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, Saturn Award
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