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 Amateur | Henderson | 2025-04-09 |
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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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Wick Is Pain | Self | 2025-05-08 |
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Megadoc | Self | 2025-09-19 |
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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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Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 2024-09-25 |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 |
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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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All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
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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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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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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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Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
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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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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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The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
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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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Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
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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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Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
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Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 2015-12-08 |
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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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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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The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
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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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Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 2012-02-11 |
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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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The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
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Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
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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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Predators: The Chosen | 2010-01-01 | |
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Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (voice) | 2010-10-19 |
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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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Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
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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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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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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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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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Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
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On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' | Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 |
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Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-14 |
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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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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
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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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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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The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 2003-10-31 |
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A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-08 |
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Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
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The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
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Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
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Spooge | Self | 2001-11-10 |
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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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Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
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Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
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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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Black Hollywood | Self | 1997-12-29 |
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Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
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Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
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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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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
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Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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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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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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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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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
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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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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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School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
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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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Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
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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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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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Blacksmith | Mather | |
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The Little Bedroom | ||
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The Blacksmith | ||
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Crimson Blues | Mills |
