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Laurence Fishburne
17 FOLLOWERS • 83 CREDITS • JUL 30, 1961 • 63
Biography
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).
Known For
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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The Daily Show
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Tony Awards
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CSI: Miami
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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MADtv
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House
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M*A*S*H
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The Equalizer
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Hill Street Blues
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Trapper John, M.D.
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What If...?
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Miami Vice
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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grown-ish
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America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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mixed-ish
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black-ish
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The Matrix Resurrections
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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The Civil War
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A Rumor of War
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The Color Purple
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The Oscars
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
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Thunderbolts*
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Gardens of Stone
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Mission: Impossible III
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TMNT
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Megalopolis
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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Higher Learning
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21
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Man of Steel
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Ride Along
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Transformers One
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The School for Good and Evil
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Predators
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John Wick: Chapter 4
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
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John Wick: Chapter 2
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Pee-wee's Playhouse
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
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Apocalypse Now
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The Matrix Revisited
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Mystic River
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Passengers
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All the Old Knives
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MacGruber
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Hannibal
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The Mule
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Contagion
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The Matrix Recalibrated
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Last Flag Flying
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The Ice Road
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Assault on Precinct 13
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Slingshot
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Akeelah and the Bee
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The Matrix
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The Matrix Revolutions
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The Six O'Clock Follies
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What's Love Got to Do with It
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The Matrix Reloaded
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Boyz n the Hood
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The Black List: Volume Two
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Event Horizon
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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The Tuskegee Airmen
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History's Greatest Mysteries
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Always Outnumbered
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Clipped
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Production Credits
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