1961-07-30 Augusta, Georgia, USA
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-30 |
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Cellar Door | Emmett | 2024-10-31 |
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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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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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The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
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All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
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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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Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
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Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
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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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Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
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Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
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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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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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Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
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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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Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
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The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
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Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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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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Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
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Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
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Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 |
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Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
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Predators | Noland | 2010-07-07 |
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Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
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Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
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Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
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The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
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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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21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
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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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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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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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Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
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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 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 | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
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Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
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MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
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Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
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A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
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The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
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Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
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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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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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Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
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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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Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
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Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
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Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
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Black Hollywood | Self | 1997-12-29 |
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Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
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Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
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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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Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 1991-07-12 |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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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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Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
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Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
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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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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
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Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
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Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
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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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Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
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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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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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Crimson Blues | Mills |
