1961-07-30 Augusta, Georgia, USA
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).
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Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
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The Astronaut | General William Harris | 2025-09-26 |
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The Amateur | Henderson | 2025-04-09 |
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Wick Is Pain | Self | 2025-05-08 |
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Megadoc | Self | 2025-09-19 |
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Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 2024-09-25 |
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Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
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Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-30 |
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Cellar Door | Emmett | 2024-10-31 |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 |
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black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 2022-04-19 |
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
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The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
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Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
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Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
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The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
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Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
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Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 |
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | 2020-05-30 |
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Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
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Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
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The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
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John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
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Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
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The Snowy Day | Narrator (voice) | 2016-11-25 |
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Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
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Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | 2015-02-20 |
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Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 2015-12-08 |
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Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
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The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
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Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
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Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
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The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
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Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
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Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 2012-02-11 |
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Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
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Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
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The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
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Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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Predators: The Chosen | 2010-01-01 | |
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Predators | Noland | 2010-07-07 |
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Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (voice) | 2010-10-19 |
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Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
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The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
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Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
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21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
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Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
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Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
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America's Game: 1986 New York Giants | Narrator | 2007-01-19 |
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | 2007-01-16 |
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
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TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
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The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
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Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
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Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
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Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
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Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-14 |
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Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
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Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | 2004-06-08 |
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Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
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The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
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MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
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A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
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Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
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Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 2003-10-31 |
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Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
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The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
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Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-08 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
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Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
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Spooge | Self | 2001-11-10 |
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The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
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Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 2000-10-27 |
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Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
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Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
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Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
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The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
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Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
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Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
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Black Hollywood | Self | 1997-12-29 |
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Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
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Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
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Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
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Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
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What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
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Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
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Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 1991-07-12 |
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Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
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Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
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King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
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School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
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Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
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Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
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Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
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Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
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Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
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The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
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The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
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I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
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Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
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Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
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Willie & Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
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Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-05-19 |
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Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
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Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
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Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn | Self | |
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The Little Bedroom | ||
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Blacksmith | Mather | |
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Crimson Blues | Mills | |
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