Laurence Fishburne
118 movies · 32 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 30, 1961 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Also known as
- Larry Fishburne · Laurence John Fishburne · Лоуренс Фишборн · Laurence John Fishburne III
Biography
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).
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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).
Known for
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★ 8.3 The Matrix
1999 · Film
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★ 6.0 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016 · Film
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★ 6.7 Man of Steel
2013 · Film
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★ 7.3 John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Film
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★ 6.9 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · Film
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★ 7.0 Passengers
2016 · Film
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★ 7.1 The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Film
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★ 7.4 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 · Film
Laurence Fishburne: movies and TV shows
Acting (147)
- Upcoming Gatto
as Rocco (voice)
- Upcoming The Exorcist: Martyrs
as Father Nichol
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Blacksmith
as Mather
- Upcoming The Blacksmith
as Mather
- Upcoming Crimson Blues
as Mills
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2025 The Astronaut
as General William Harris
- 2025 Sneaks
as The Collector (voice)
- 2025 The Amateur
as Henderson
- 2024 Cellar Door
as Emmett
- 2024 Megalopolis
as Fundi Romaine
- 2024 Transformers One
as Alpha Trion (voice)
- 2024 Slingshot
as Captain Franks
- 2024
- 2023 John Wick: Chapter 4
as Bowery King
- 2023 Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur · TV
as Foster (voice) / The Beyonder (voice) / Backstory Man (voice) / Beyonder (voice) · 18 episodes
- 2022 The School for Good and Evil
as School Master
- 2022 All the Old Knives
as Vick Wallinger
- 2021 Death to 2021
as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 The Matrix Resurrections
as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 The Ice Road
as Goldenrod
- 2021 Under the Stadium Lights
as Harold Christian
- 2020 Death to 2020
as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 Our Lady of 121st Street
as Rooftop
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019 Imprisoned
as Daniel Calvin
- 2019 Running with the Devil
as The Man
- 2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette
as Paul Jellinek
- 2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as Bowery King
- 2018 The Mule
as Special Agent in Charge
- 2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Bill Foster
- 2018
- 2017 Last Flag Flying
as Reverend Richard Mueller
- 2017
- 2017 John Wick: Chapter 2
as Bowery King
- 2017
- 2016 Passengers
as Gus Mancuso
- 2016 The Snowy Day
as Narrator (voice)
- 2016
- 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Perry White
- 2016 Standoff
as Sade
- 2014 Rudderless
as Del
- 2014
- 2014 The Signal
as Dr. Wallace Damon
- 2014 Ride Along
as Omar
- 2013
- 2013 Khumba
as Seko (voice)
- 2013 Man of Steel
as Perry White
- 2013 The Colony
as Briggs
- 2013
- 2012 Slavery by Another Name
as Narrator
- 2011 Have a Little Faith
as Henry Covington
- 2011 Contagion
as Ellis Cheever
- 2011 Thurgood
as Thurgood Marshall
- 2010
- 2010 Predators: Moments of Extraction
as Noland (voice)
- 2010 Predators
as Noland
- 2010
- 2009 Armored
as Baines
- 2008 Days of Wrath
as Mr. Stafford
- 2008 Tortured
as Archie Green
- 2008 21
as Cole Williams
- 2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Tad Gruzsa
- 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Silver Surfer (voice)
- 2007 America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
as Narrator
- 2007 TMNT
as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
as Narrator
- 2006
- 2006 Bobby
as Edward Robinson
- 2006 Five Fingers
as Ahmat
- 2006 Akeelah and the Bee
as Dr. Larabee
- 2006 Mission: Impossible III
as Theodore Brassel
- 2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
- 2005 Ashes and Snow
as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 Assault on Precinct 13
as Marion Bishop
- 2004 Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
as Morpheus
- 2004
- 2003 The Matrix Revolutions
as Morpheus
- 2003 Mystic River
as Whitey Powers
- 2003 The Matrix Reloaded
as Morpheus
- 2003 MTV Reloaded
as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2003 Biker Boyz
as Smoke
- 2002
- 2002 Undercover Brother
as Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)
- 2001 Osmosis Jones
as Thrax (voice)
- 2000 Once in the Life
as 20 / 20 Mike
- 2000 Welcome to Hollywood
as Laurence Fishburne
- 2000
- 2000 Sex and the Matrix
as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2000 Michael Jordan to the Max
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 The Matrix
as Morpheus
- 1998 Always Outnumbered
as Socrates Fortlow
- 1997 Hoodlum
as Bumpy Johnson
- 1997 Event Horizon
as Miller
- 1997 Miss Evers' Boys
as Caleb Humphries
- 1996 Fled
as Piper
- 1995 Othello
as Othello
- 1995 The Tuskegee Airmen
as Hannibal Lee
- 1995 Just Cause
as Sheriff Tanny Brown
- 1995 Bad Company
as Nelson Crowe
- 1995 Higher Learning
as Professor Maurice Phipps
- 1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Vinnie
- 1993 What's Love Got to Do with It
as Ike Turner
- 1993
- 1992 Deep Cover
as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
- 1991 Boyz n the Hood
as Furious Styles
- 1991 Class Action
as Nick Holbrook
- 1990 Decoration Day
as Michael Waring, DOD Man
- 1990 Cadence
as Roosevelt Stokes
- 1990
- 1990 King of New York
as Jimmy Jump
- 1988 Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
as Cowboy Curtis
- 1988 Red Heat
as Lt. Stobbs
- 1988 School Daze
as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
- 1987 Cherry 2000
as Glu Glu Lawyer
- 1987 Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Flanagan
- 1987
- 1986
- 1986 Band of the Hand
as Cream
- 1986 Quicksilver
as Voodoo
- 1985 The Color Purple
as Swain
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 The Cotton Club
as Bumpy Rhodes
- 1984
- 1983 Rumble Fish
as Midget
- 1983 For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as Jimbo Collins
- 1983 I Take These Men
as Hank Johnson
- 1982 Death Wish II
as Cutter
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980
- 1980 Willie & Phil
as High School Student
- 1980
- 1979
- 1979 Apocalypse Now
as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- 1979 Fast Break
as Street Kid
- 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me
as Wilford Robinson
- 1972
- 1972
- 1951
Behind the camera (17)
- Upcoming The Rule of Nines
Director
- 2025 The Astronaut
Executive Producer
- 2025 Sneaks
Producer
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 The Cave of Adullam
Producer, Executive Producer
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2014
- 2010
- 2006 Five Fingers
Producer
- 2006 Akeelah and the Bee
Producer
- 2000 Once in the Life
Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer, Theatre Play
- 1998 Always Outnumbered
Executive Producer
- 1997 Hoodlum
Executive Producer
- 1997 Miss Evers' Boys
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (59)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025 Number One on the Call Sheet
1 episode
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021 Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
9 episodes
- 2020 History's Greatest Mysteries
103 episodes
- 2020
- 2018 Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
3 episodes
- 2017
- 2015
- 2015 Jay Leno's Garage
2 episodes
- 2015 The Muppets
1 episode
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2015
- 2015
- 2013 The Frame
1 episode
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 Conan
1 episode
- 2010 The Talk
1 episode
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
1 episode
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 The Blues
1 episode
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2003
- 2001
- 2001
- 1999
- 1998 The Magic Hour
1 episode
- 1997
- 1997 The View
4 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1995 MADtv
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1991
- 1991
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes