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