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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).
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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).
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Tony Awards
CSI: Miami
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
MADtv
House
What If...?
M*A*S*H
The Equalizer
Hill Street Blues
Trapper John, M.D.
Miami Vice
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
grown-ish
Top Gear
Number One on the Call Sheet
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
The Muppets
black-ish
mixed-ish
The Matrix Resurrections
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Civil War
Wick Is Pain
A Rumor of War
The Color Purple
Death Wish II
The Oscars
Thunderbolts*
Mission: Impossible III
Gardens of Stone
TMNT
Higher Learning
Cherry 2000
21
Ride Along
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Megalopolis
Transformers One
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Amateur
Man of Steel
Apocalypse Now
Searching for Bobby Fischer
John Wick: Chapter 4
Red Heat
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The School for Good and Evil
Predators
The Ice Road
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Mystic River
All the Old Knives
MacGruber
The Signal
The Matrix Revisited
Passengers
The Mule
Last Flag Flying
Cellar Door
Contagion
Hannibal
John Wick: Chapter 2
The Matrix Recalibrated
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Osmosis Jones
Slingshot
The Matrix Reloaded
Akeelah and the Bee
Assault on Precinct 13
The Six O'Clock Follies
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix
Boyz n the Hood
The Astronaut
The Black List: Volume Two
Clipped
What's Love Got to Do with It
Event Horizon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tuskegee Airmen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
History's Greatest Mysteries
Always Outnumbered
Production Credits
grown-ish
mixed-ish
The Astronaut
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Akeelah and the Bee
black-ish
Always Outnumbered
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