Laurence Fishburne

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Biography

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Overview

Known For

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tony Awards

CSI: Miami

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

grown-ish

Top Gear

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Number One on the Call Sheet

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

The Muppets

mixed-ish

black-ish

The Matrix Resurrections

Mission: Impossible III

Gardens of Stone

TMNT

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Higher Learning

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Ride Along

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

The School for Good and Evil

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

The Matrix Recalibrated

Slingshot

Akeelah and the Bee

The Black List: Volume Two

The Six O'Clock Follies

What's Love Got to Do with It

Boyz n the Hood

The Matrix Revolutions

Assault on Precinct 13

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

History's Greatest Mysteries

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Production Credits