
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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Known For

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!

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

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

grown-ish

Top Gear

Number One on the Call Sheet

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

The Muppets

black-ish

mixed-ish

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Matrix Resurrections

The Civil War

A Rumor of War

The Color Purple

Death Wish II

Mission: Impossible III

Gardens of Stone

TMNT

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Higher Learning

Thunderbolts*

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Megalopolis

Transformers One

Cherry 2000

21

Ride Along

Ant-Man and the Wasp

The Amateur

Man of Steel

John Wick: Chapter 4

Red Heat

Searching for Bobby Fischer

The School for Good and Evil

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Predators

Apocalypse Now

Pee-wee's Playhouse

John Wick: Chapter 2

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

All the Old Knives

The Signal

Mystic River

The Matrix Revisited

Passengers

MacGruber

Last Flag Flying

The Mule

The Matrix Recalibrated

Contagion

Hannibal

The Ice Road

Cellar Door

The Matrix

The Matrix Revolutions

The Black List: Volume Two

Boyz n the Hood

Assault on Precinct 13

Slingshot

The Matrix Reloaded

Akeelah and the Bee

Clipped

What's Love Got to Do with It

The Six O'Clock Follies

History's Greatest Mysteries

Event Horizon

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Tuskegee Airmen

Always Outnumbered
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