
Laurence Fishburne
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Biography
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).
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!

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

The Oscars

Death Wish II

Thunderbolts*

Mission: Impossible III

Gardens of Stone

TMNT

Higher Learning

21

Megalopolis

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Transformers One

Ride Along

Cherry 2000

Man of Steel

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

The Amateur

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Predators

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Ice Road

The School for Good and Evil

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Apocalypse Now

Red Heat

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Passengers

Mystic River

The Signal

MacGruber

The Matrix Revisited

All the Old Knives

Last Flag Flying

Contagion

The Mule

Hannibal

Cellar Door

The Matrix Recalibrated

John Wick: Chapter 2

Akeelah and the Bee

The Six O'Clock Follies

Pee-wee's Playhouse

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

Osmosis Jones

Slingshot

The Astronaut

The Matrix

Clipped

The Black List: Volume Two

What's Love Got to Do with It

Assault on Precinct 13

Boyz n the Hood

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tuskegee Airmen

Always Outnumbered

History's Greatest Mysteries

Event Horizon
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