Laurence Fishburne

Actor

Born July 30, 1961 in 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).

Filmography

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Gatto

Rocco (voice)

Crimson Blues

Mills

The Astronaut

General William Harris

Megadoc

Self

Wick Is Pain

Self

Sneaks

The Collector (voice)

The Amateur

Henderson

Number One on the Call Sheet

Self

Cellar Door

Emmett

Megalopolis

Fundi Romaine

Transformers One

Alpha Trion (voice)

Slingshot

Captain Franks

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab

Clipped

Doc Rivers

John Wick: Chapter 4

Bowery King

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Foster (voice)

Bonnie

Self

The School for Good and Evil

School Master

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Self

The Cave of Adullam

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

Self

All the Old Knives

Vick Wallinger

Death to 2021

Narrator (voice)

The Matrix Resurrections

Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)

MacGruber

General Barrett Fasoose

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

Self

What If...?

Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)

The Ice Road

Goldenrod

Under the Stadium Lights

Harold Christian

Death to 2020

Narrator (voice)

History's Greatest Mysteries

Self - Host

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

Self

Our Lady of 121st Street

Rooftop

#FreeRayshawn

Steven Poincy

The Witcher

Regis

mixed-ish

Pops Johnson

Imprisoned

Daniel Calvin

Running with the Devil

The Man

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Paul Jellinek

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Bowery King

The Mule

Special Agent in Charge

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

Self

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Dr. Bill Foster

grown-ish

Pops Johnson

Last Flag Flying

Reverend Richard Mueller

Year Million

Narrator

John Wick: Chapter 2

Bowery King

Madiba

Nelson Mandela

Passengers

Gus Mancuso

The Snowy Day

Narrator (voice)

Roots

Alex Haley

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Perry White

Standoff

Sade

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Self

Jay Leno's Garage

Self

The Muppets

Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

Self

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Self

Rudderless

Del

black-ish

Pops Johnson

The Signal

Dr. Wallace Damon

Ride Along

Omar

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

Khumba

Seko (voice)

Man of Steel

Perry White

The Colony

Briggs

The Frame

Perry White

Hannibal

Jack Crawford

Slavery by Another Name

Narrator

Have a Little Faith

Henry Covington

A Man's Story

Self

Contagion

Ellis Cheever

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

Self

Thurgood

Thurgood Marshall

Top Gear

Conan

Self

Predators: Moments of Extraction

Noland (voice)

The Talk

Self

Predators

Noland

Rappin' With The Rickster

Self

Predators: The Chosen

Armored

Baines

The Black List: Volume Two

Self

Days of Wrath

Mr. Stafford

Tortured

Archie Green

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

Self

Cole Williams

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Tad Gruzsa

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Narrator

TMNT

Narrator (voice)

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

Narrator

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Self

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Narrator (voice)

Bobby

Edward Robinson

Five Fingers

Ahmat

Akeelah and the Bee

Dr. Larabee

Mission: Impossible III

Theodore Brassel

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

Self

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

Self (archive footage)

Ashes and Snow

Narrator (voice)

Assault on Precinct 13

Marion Bishop

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

Self

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

Self

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

Self

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

Morpheus

CSI: NY

Ray Langston

The Matrix Recalibrated

Self

The Matrix Revolutions

Morpheus

Mystic River

Whitey Powers

The Blues

Self - Narrator

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

Self

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Self

The Soul of a Man

Self - Narrator

The Matrix Reloaded

Morpheus

MTV Reloaded

Morpheus (archive footage)

Biker Boyz

Smoke

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

A History of Sex

Self

CSI: Miami

CSI Dr. Ray Langston

Undercover Brother

Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)

The Matrix Revisited

Self - Morpheus

Spooge

Self

Osmosis Jones

Thrax (voice)

Once in the Life

20 / 20 Mike

Welcome to Hollywood

Laurence Fishburne

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Raymond Langston

Sex and the Matrix

Morpheus (archive footage)

Michael Jordan to the Max

Narrator (voice)

Making "The Matrix"

Self

The Matrix

Morpheus

The Magic Hour

Self

Always Outnumbered

Socrates Fortlow

Hoodlum

Bumpy Johnson

Event Horizon

Miller

The View

Self

Miss Evers' Boys

Caleb Humphries

The Daily Show

Self

Fled

Piper

Othello

MADtv

Self

The Tuskegee Airmen

Hannibal Lee

Just Cause

Sheriff Tanny Brown

Bad Company

Nelson Crowe

Higher Learning

Professor Maurice Phipps

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Vinnie

What's Love Got to Do with It

Ike Turner

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Deep Cover

Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Self

Boyz n the Hood

Furious Styles

Class Action

Nick Holbrook

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

Self

Decoration Day

Michael Waring, DOD Man

Cadence

Roosevelt Stokes

The Civil War

Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)

King of New York

Jimmy Jump

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Cowboy Curtis

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Red Heat

Lt. Stobbs

School Daze

Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap

Cherry 2000

Glu Glu Lawyer

Gardens of Stone

Sgt. Flanagan

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Max

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Cowboy Curtis

Band of the Hand

Cream

Quicksilver

Voodoo

The Color Purple

Swain

Spenser: For Hire

The Equalizer

Casey Taylor

The Cotton Club

Bumpy Rhodes

Miami Vice

Prison Guard Keller

Rumble Fish

Midget

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Jimbo Collins

I Take These Men

Hank Johnson

Death Wish II

Cutter

American Playhouse

Jimbo Collins

Hill Street Blues

A Rumor of War

Lightbulb

Willie & Phil

High School Student

Trapper John, M.D.

Apocalypse Now

Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

Fast Break

Street Kid

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Wilford Robinson

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Fish

M*A*S*H

Corporal Dorsey

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

The Oscars

Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Michael Waring