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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).
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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
grown-ish
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
mixed-ish
black-ish
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Matrix Resurrections
The Civil War
A Rumor of War
The Color Purple
The Oscars
Thunderbolts*
Man of Steel
Mission: Impossible III
Gardens of Stone
TMNT
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Higher Learning
Transformers One
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Ride Along
Megalopolis
Ant-Man and the Wasp
21
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The School for Good and Evil
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
John Wick: Chapter 4
Predators
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Apocalypse Now
Mystic River
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
The Signal
John Wick: Chapter 2
The Matrix Revisited
All the Old Knives
MacGruber
Passengers
Hannibal
The Mule
The Matrix Recalibrated
Contagion
Last Flag Flying
The Ice Road
Cellar Door
Akeelah and the Bee
The Black List: Volume Two
Assault on Precinct 13
The Amateur
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
Boyz n the Hood
Slingshot
What's Love Got to Do with It
The Six O'Clock Follies
The Matrix Revolutions
The Tuskegee Airmen
Always Outnumbered
Clipped
History's Greatest Mysteries
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Event Horizon
Production Credits
Akeelah and the Bee
black-ish
mixed-ish
grown-ish
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Always Outnumbered
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