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Laurence Fishburne
16 FOLLOWERS • 82 CREDITS • JUL 30, 1961 • 62
Biography
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
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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The Daily Show
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Tony Awards
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CSI: Miami
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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MADtv
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House
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M*A*S*H
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The Equalizer
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Hill Street Blues
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Trapper John, M.D.
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What If...?
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Miami Vice
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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grown-ish
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America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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mixed-ish
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black-ish
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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The Matrix Resurrections
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The Civil War
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A Rumor of War
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The Color Purple
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The Oscars
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
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Thunderbolts*
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Gardens of Stone
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Mission: Impossible III
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TMNT
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Megalopolis
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Higher Learning
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Ride Along
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21
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Man of Steel
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Transformers One
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The School for Good and Evil
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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John Wick: Chapter 4
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Predators
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MacGruber
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Pee-wee's Playhouse
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Passengers
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Apocalypse Now
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The Matrix Revisited
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
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John Wick: Chapter 2
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All the Old Knives
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Mystic River
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Contagion
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Hannibal
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The Ice Road
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The Mule
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Last Flag Flying
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The Matrix Recalibrated
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What's Love Got to Do with It
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Boyz n the Hood
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Akeelah and the Bee
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The Black List: Volume Two
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The Six O'Clock Follies
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The Matrix Revolutions
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Assault on Precinct 13
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The Matrix Reloaded
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The Matrix
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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History's Greatest Mysteries
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Clipped
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The Tuskegee Airmen
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Event Horizon
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Always Outnumbered
Production Credits
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