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Laurence Fishburne
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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of 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 in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), 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), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).
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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of 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 in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), 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), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).
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
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
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
black-ish
mixed-ish
The Matrix Resurrections
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Civil War
A Rumor of War
The Color Purple
The Oscars
Thunderbolts*
Mission: Impossible III
Gardens of Stone
TMNT
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Higher Learning
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Ant-Man and the Wasp
21
Man of Steel
Transformers One
Megalopolis
Ride Along
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The School for Good and Evil
Predators
John Wick: Chapter 4
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Mystic River
The Signal
MacGruber
Apocalypse Now
Passengers
Pee-wee's Playhouse
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 2
All the Old Knives
The Matrix Revisited
Contagion
The Matrix Recalibrated
Hannibal
Cellar Door
The Ice Road
Last Flag Flying
The Mule
The Amateur
The Black List: Volume Two
What's Love Got to Do with It
Akeelah and the Bee
Clipped
The Six O'Clock Follies
Assault on Precinct 13
The Matrix Revolutions
Slingshot
The Matrix
Boyz n the Hood
The Matrix Reloaded
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
History's Greatest Mysteries
Always Outnumbered
Event Horizon
The Tuskegee Airmen
Production Credits
mixed-ish
black-ish
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Akeelah and the Bee
grown-ish
Always Outnumbered
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