Laurence Fishburne
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Laurence Fishburne

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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).

Films Featuring Laurence Fishburne

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Mystic River

20037.7

The Color Purple

19857.7

Mission: Impossible III

20066.8

TMNT

20076.2

The Matrix

19998.3

The Matrix Reloaded

20037.1

The Matrix Revolutions

20036.8

Boyz n the Hood

19917.6

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

19876.7

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

20075.6

Bobby

20066.4

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

20076.2

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Armored

20095.8

Deep Cover

19926.8

Quicksilver

19865.6

Bonnie

20225.3

Sneaks

20255.8

Hoodlum

19976.5

The Astronaut

20256.1

Five Fingers

20066.0

21

20086.7

The Tuskegee Airmen

19957.1

Event Horizon

19976.6

Black Hollywood

Black Hollywood

19977.0

Assault on Precinct 13

20056.2

Biker Boyz

20036.4

Just Cause

19956.3

Osmosis Jones

20016.5

King of New York

19906.8

Always Outnumbered

19986.4

Red Heat

19886.2

Band of the Hand

19866.2

Tortured

20085.5

Predators

20106.3

Cadence

19906.7

Gardens of Stone

19876.2

Bad Company

19954.9

Akeelah and the Bee

20067.0

The Matrix Revisited

20016.9

Searching for Bobby Fischer

19937.1

School Daze

19885.7

Death Wish II

19826.2

Cornbread, Earl and Me

19756.9

What's Love Got to Do with It

19937.0

Cherry 2000

19875.9

Slingshot

20246.1

Once in the Life

20004.8

Higher Learning

19956.3

Othello

19956.4

Contagion

20116.7

Transformers One

20248.0

Death to 2021

20216.0

Fled

19965.7

Man of Steel

20136.7

The Amateur

20256.9

Thurgood

20116.5

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

20197.4

John Wick: Chapter 4

20237.7

Have a Little Faith

20116.6

Decoration Day

19906.9

The Soul of a Man

20036.6

Miss Evers' Boys

19976.5

The Little Bedroom

The Little Bedroom

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

20222.5

A History of Sex

20035.5

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

2003

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

20078.5

Ride Along

20146.3

Khumba

20136.0

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

20166.0

The Matrix Recalibrated

20047.0

The Colony

20135.5

Megalopolis

20245.2

Rudderless

20147.2

The Signal

20146.0

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

20226.1

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

19837.0

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

19887.2

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Standoff

20166.1

Class Action

19916.3

Days of Wrath

20087.0

Spooge

2001

John Wick: Chapter 2

20177.3

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

201510.0

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

2015

Michael Jordan to the Max

20007.5

Passengers

20167.0

Sex and the Matrix

20006.7

Blacksmith

Blacksmith

Last Flag Flying

20176.7

The Snowy Day

20167.0

The Black List: Volume Two

20096.0

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

20067.4

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

20196.6

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Ant-Man and the Wasp

20186.9

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

19914.3

A Man's Story

20116.9

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

20047.1

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Rappin' With The Rickster

20102.0

Ashes and Snow

20057.3

Running with the Devil

20195.4

The Mule

20186.9

Imprisoned

20194.6

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

20057.2

MTV Reloaded

20037.3

Fast Break

19795.6

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

20036.0

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

20112.0

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

20038.3

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

20046.8

The Ice Road

20216.7

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

19725.0

Making "The Matrix"

19997.4

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

20047.0

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

20036.1

The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith

Predators: Moments of Extraction

20104.2

Our Lady of 121st Street

2020

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

20156.0

Slavery by Another Name

20127.2

All the Old Knives

20226.0

Death to 2020

20206.5

The School for Good and Evil

20227.0

Crimson Blues

Under the Stadium Lights

20216.0

Cellar Door

20245.7

I Take These Men

19835.0

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

20204.8

Wick Is Pain

20257.4

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Megadoc

20256.5

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

20047.3

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

2007

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

Predators: The Chosen

20103.0

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

20058.0

The Exorcist: Martyrs

The Exorcist: Martyrs

2027

The Matrix Resurrections

20216.3

Undercover Brother

20025.9

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

2013

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2007

Inheritance

Inheritance

Interference

Interference

Gatto

2027