
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

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

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

mixed-ish

black-ish

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Matrix Resurrections

The Civil War

A Rumor of War

The Color Purple

The Oscars

Gardens of Stone

Mission: Impossible III

TMNT

Thunderbolts*

Higher Learning

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Megalopolis

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Cherry 2000

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Ride Along

Transformers One

21

Man of Steel

The School for Good and Evil

John Wick: Chapter 4

Predators

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Apocalypse Now

MacGruber

Passengers

John Wick: Chapter 2

The Matrix Revisited

All the Old Knives

Mystic River

Pee-wee's Playhouse

The Signal

The Mule

Cellar Door

The Amateur

The Matrix Recalibrated

The Ice Road

Last Flag Flying

Contagion

Hannibal

The Matrix

Assault on Precinct 13

The Six O'Clock Follies

What's Love Got to Do with It

Clipped

Slingshot

Boyz n the Hood

Akeelah and the Bee

The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Reloaded

The Black List: Volume Two

Always Outnumbered

Event Horizon

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

History's Greatest Mysteries

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tuskegee Airmen
Production Credits
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