
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.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tony Awards

CSI: Miami

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Oscars

MADtv

House

M*A*S*H

The Equalizer

Hill Street Blues

Trapper John, M.D.

What If...?

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

mixed-ish

black-ish

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Matrix Resurrections

The Civil War

A Rumor of War

The Color Purple

Thunderbolts*

Mission: Impossible III

Gardens of Stone

TMNT

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Higher Learning

Ride Along

Transformers One

Megalopolis

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

21

Cherry 2000

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Man of Steel

The Amateur

Predators

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

John Wick: Chapter 4

The School for Good and Evil

Passengers

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

All the Old Knives

John Wick: Chapter 2

The Matrix Revisited

Mystic River

MacGruber

The Signal

Apocalypse Now

Hannibal

The Mule

Contagion

Cellar Door

The Ice Road

The Matrix Recalibrated

Last Flag Flying

Assault on Precinct 13

Slingshot

The Matrix Revolutions

Clipped

Akeelah and the Bee

The Black List: Volume Two

The Six O'Clock Follies

What's Love Got to Do with It

The Matrix

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Boyz n the Hood

The Matrix Reloaded

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Event Horizon

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

History's Greatest Mysteries

Always Outnumbered

The Tuskegee Airmen
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