Laurence Fishburne
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). 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).
Movies (140)
Untitled The Exorcist Film
2027
Gatto
2027
The Astronaut
2025
Megadoc
2025
Wick Is Pain
2025
Sneaks
2025
The Amateur
2025
Cellar Door
2024
Megalopolis
2024
Transformers One
2024
Slingshot
2024
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
Bonnie
2022
The School for Good and Evil
2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022
All the Old Knives
2022
Death to 2021
2021
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
The Ice Road
2021
Under the Stadium Lights
2021
Death to 2020
2020
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020
Imprisoned
2019
Running with the Devil
2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
The Mule
2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
Last Flag Flying
2017
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Passengers
2016
The Snowy Day
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Standoff
2016
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Rudderless
2014
The Signal
2014
Ride Along
2014
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013
Khumba
2013
Man of Steel
2013
The Colony
2013
Slavery by Another Name
2012
Have a Little Faith
2011
A Man's Story
2011
Contagion
2011
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
Thurgood
2011
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
Predators
2010
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
Predators: The Chosen
2010
Armored
2009
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
Days of Wrath
2008
Tortured
2008
21
2008
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2007
TMNT
2007
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
2007
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Bobby
2006
Five Fingers
2006
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
Mission: Impossible III
2006
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
Ashes and Snow
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
2004
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
Mystic River
2003
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
The Soul of a Man
2003
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
MTV Reloaded
2003
Biker Boyz
2003
A History of Sex
2003
Undercover Brother
2002
The Matrix Revisited
2001
Spooge
2001
Osmosis Jones
2001
Once in the Life
2000
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Sex and the Matrix
2000
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000
Making "The Matrix"
1999
The Matrix
1999
Always Outnumbered
1998
Hoodlum
1997
Event Horizon
1997
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Fled
1996
Othello
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Just Cause
1995
Bad Company
1995
Higher Learning
1995
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
Deep Cover
1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Boyz n the Hood
1991
Class Action
1991
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
Decoration Day
1990
Cadence
1990
King of New York
1990
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
Red Heat
1988
School Daze
1988
Cherry 2000
1987
Gardens of Stone
1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Band of the Hand
1986
Quicksilver
1986
The Color Purple
1985
The Cotton Club
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
I Take These Men
1983
Death Wish II
1982
Willie & Phil
1980
Apocalypse Now
1979
Fast Break
1979
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972
Crimson Blues
TV Shows (53)
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Clipped
2024
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
MacGruber
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
What If...?
2021
What If...?
2021
History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
#FreeRayshawn
2020
The Witcher
2019
mixed-ish
2019
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018
grown-ish
2018
Year Million
2017
Madiba
2017
Roots
2016
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
The Muppets
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
black-ish
2014
The Frame
2013
Hannibal
2013
Top Gear
2010
Conan
2010
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Blues
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
CSI: Miami
2002
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Magic Hour
1998
The View
1997
The Daily Show
1996
MADtv
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Civil War
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985
Miami Vice
1984
Hill Street Blues
1981
A Rumor of War
1980
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
M*A*S*H
1972
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951