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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The Astronaut | General William Harris | 2025-09-26 |
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Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
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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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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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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
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black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 2022-04-19 |
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Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
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Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
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The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | 2020-05-30 |
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Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 |
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Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
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Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
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Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
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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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Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
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John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
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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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Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
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The Snowy Day | Narrator (voice) | 2016-11-25 |
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
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Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 2015-12-08 |
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | 2015-02-20 |
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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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Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
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Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
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Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
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The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
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Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 2012-02-11 |
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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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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
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Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
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Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 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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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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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | 2007-01-16 |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
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TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
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Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
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Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
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Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
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The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
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Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-14 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
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Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
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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 Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
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Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | 2004-06-08 |
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MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
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Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
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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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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
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Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 2003-10-31 |
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The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
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Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
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A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
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Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
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The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
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Spooge | Self | 2001-11-10 |
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Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
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Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
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Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 2000-10-27 |
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The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
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Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
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Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
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Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
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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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Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
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Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
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What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
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Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 1991-07-12 |
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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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Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
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School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
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Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
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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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Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
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Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
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Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
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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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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
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I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
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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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Blacksmith | Mather | |
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Crimson Blues | Mills | |
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