1961-07-30 Augusta, Georgia, USA
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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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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Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-08-31 |
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The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
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black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 2022-04-19 |
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The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
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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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Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 |
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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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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
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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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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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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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Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
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Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
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The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words | 2015-08-18 | |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
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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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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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The Enduring Significance of Boyz n the Hood | 2011-07-19 | |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
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Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
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Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
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Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
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Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
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Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 |
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Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
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Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
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Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
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The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 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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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
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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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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
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Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
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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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Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
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The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-05 |
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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: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
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The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Himself | 2003-06-24 |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
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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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MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
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A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
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Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | |
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
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Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-01-01 |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
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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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Michael Jordan to the max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
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Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
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The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
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Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
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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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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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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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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
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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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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | 1991-01-01 | |
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
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Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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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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Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
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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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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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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 | 1983-10-20 |
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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 and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
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Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
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Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
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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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Slingshot | Captain Franks | |
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The Blacksmith | ||
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Crimson Blues | Mills |
