Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 30, 1961
Place of Birth
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Credits
208 titles
Laurence Fishburne
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
Filmography
The Exorcist: Martyrs
Gatto
Rocco (voice)
The Astronaut
General William Harris
Megadoc
Self
Wick Is Pain
Self
Sneaks
The Collector (voice)
The Amateur
Henderson
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
Cellar Door
Emmett
Megalopolis
Fundi Romaine
Transformers One
Alpha Trion (voice)
Slingshot
Captain Franks
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab
Creator
Clipped
Doc Rivers
John Wick: Chapter 4
Bowery King
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Foster (voice)
Bonnie
Self
The School for Good and Evil
School Master
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
The Cave of Adullam
Producer
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
Self
All the Old Knives
Vick Wallinger
Death to 2021
Narrator (voice)
The Matrix Resurrections
Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
MacGruber
General Barrett Fasoose
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
What If...?
Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
The Ice Road
Goldenrod
Under the Stadium Lights
Harold Christian
Death to 2020
Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Mysteries
Self - Host
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Self
Our Lady of 121st Street
Rooftop
#FreeRayshawn
Steven Poincy
The Witcher
Regis
mixed-ish
Pops Johnson
Imprisoned
Daniel Calvin
Running with the Devil
The Man
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Paul Jellinek
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Bowery King
The Mule
Special Agent in Charge
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Self
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Bill Foster
grown-ish
Pops Johnson
Last Flag Flying
Reverend Richard Mueller
Year Million
Narrator
John Wick: Chapter 2
Bowery King
Madiba
Nelson Mandela
Passengers
Gus Mancuso
The Snowy Day
Narrator (voice)