Laurence Fishburne
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-07-30
Place of Birth
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Laurence Fishburne
Biography
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Apocalypse Now
May 19, 1979
Rumble Fish
Oct 09, 1983
Mystic River
Oct 07, 2003
The Color Purple
Dec 18, 1985
Mission: Impossible III
Apr 25, 2006
TMNT
Mar 23, 2007
The Matrix
Mar 31, 1999
The Matrix Reloaded
May 15, 2003
The Matrix Revolutions
Nov 05, 2003
Boyz n the Hood
Jul 12, 1991
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Feb 27, 1987
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Jun 13, 2007
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Jul 23, 2007
Bobby
Sep 05, 2006
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Nov 27, 1991
Armored
Dec 04, 2009
Deep Cover
Apr 15, 1992
Quicksilver
Feb 14, 1986
Bonnie
Nov 12, 2022
Sneaks
Apr 17, 2025
Hoodlum
Aug 27, 1997
The Astronaut
Oct 16, 2025
Five Fingers
May 01, 2006
21
Mar 27, 2008
The Tuskegee Airmen
Aug 25, 1995
Event Horizon
Aug 15, 1997
Black Hollywood
Dec 29, 1997
Assault on Precinct 13
Jan 19, 2005
Biker Boyz
Jan 31, 2003
Just Cause
Feb 17, 1995
Osmosis Jones
Aug 10, 2001
King of New York
Jul 18, 1990
Always Outnumbered
Mar 21, 1998
Red Heat
Jun 17, 1988
Band of the Hand
Apr 11, 1986
Tortured
Sep 10, 2008
Predators
Jul 07, 2010
Cadence
Nov 16, 1990
Gardens of Stone
May 05, 1987
Bad Company
Jan 20, 1995
Akeelah and the Bee
Apr 28, 2006
The Matrix Revisited
Nov 19, 2001
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Aug 13, 1993
School Daze
Feb 12, 1988
Death Wish II
Feb 20, 1982
Cornbread, Earl and Me
May 21, 1975
What's Love Got to Do with It
Jun 09, 1993
Cherry 2000
Nov 10, 1987
Slingshot
Aug 30, 2024
Once in the Life
Oct 27, 2000
Higher Learning
Jan 11, 1995
Othello
Dec 15, 1995
Contagion
Sep 08, 2011
Transformers One
Sep 11, 2024
Death to 2021
Dec 27, 2021
Fled
Jul 19, 1996
Man of Steel
Jun 12, 2013
The Amateur
Apr 09, 2025
Thurgood
Feb 24, 2011
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
May 15, 2019
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mar 22, 2023
Have a Little Faith
Nov 27, 2011
Decoration Day
Dec 02, 1990
The Soul of a Man
May 16, 2003
Miss Evers' Boys
Feb 22, 1997
The Little Bedroom
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
Apr 19, 2022
A History of Sex
Jan 14, 2003
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
Jan 30, 2003
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Jan 16, 2007
Ride Along
Jan 07, 2014
Khumba
Jul 18, 2013
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Mar 23, 2016
The Matrix Recalibrated
Apr 06, 2004
The Colony
Apr 12, 2013
Megalopolis
Sep 25, 2024
Rudderless
Oct 17, 2014
The Signal
Mar 15, 2014
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Oct 09, 2022
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Mar 22, 1983
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Dec 21, 1988
The Cotton Club
Dec 14, 1984
Black Water Transit
May 13, 2009
Standoff
Feb 26, 2016
Class Action
Mar 15, 1991
Days of Wrath
Sep 17, 2008
Spooge
Nov 10, 2001
John Wick: Chapter 2
Feb 08, 2017
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Dec 08, 2015
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Feb 20, 2015
Michael Jordan to the Max
May 05, 2000
Passengers
Dec 21, 2016
Sex and the Matrix
Jun 03, 2000
Blacksmith
Last Flag Flying
Nov 03, 2017
The Snowy Day
Nov 25, 2016
The Black List: Volume Two
Feb 26, 2009
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
Apr 18, 2006
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Aug 16, 2019
Welcome to Hollywood
Oct 01, 1998
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Jul 04, 2018
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Jan 01, 1991
A Man's Story
Oct 08, 2011
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
Dec 07, 2004
Willie & Phil
Aug 15, 1980
Rappin' With The Rickster
Jan 01, 2010
Ashes and Snow
Mar 05, 2005
Running with the Devil
Aug 29, 2019
The Mule
Dec 14, 2018
Imprisoned
Sep 12, 2019
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Sep 14, 2005
MTV Reloaded
May 13, 2003
Fast Break
Mar 02, 1979
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Sep 02, 2003
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Jul 19, 2011
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Jun 24, 2003
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
Dec 07, 2004
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
The Ice Road
Jun 24, 2021
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
Dec 19, 1972
Making 'The Matrix'
Sep 21, 1999
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
Dec 07, 2004
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Oct 14, 2003
The Blacksmith
Predators: The Chosen
Oct 19, 2010
Predators: Moments of Extraction
Oct 19, 2010
Our Lady of 121st Street
May 23, 2020
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Aug 18, 2015
Slavery by Another Name
Feb 11, 2012
All the Old Knives
Apr 08, 2022
Death to 2020
Dec 27, 2020
The School for Good and Evil
Oct 19, 2022
Crimson Blues
Under the Stadium Lights
Jun 04, 2021
Cellar Door
Oct 31, 2024
I Take These Men
Jan 05, 1983
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
May 30, 2020
Wick Is Pain
May 08, 2025
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
M*A*S*H
Sep 17, 1972
Spenser: For Hire
Sep 20, 1985
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Oct 06, 2000
Trapper John, M.D.
Sep 23, 1979
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
CSI: Miami
Sep 23, 2002
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Miami Vice
Sep 16, 1984
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Hill Street Blues
Jan 15, 1981
The Equalizer
Sep 18, 1985
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
TriBeCa
Mar 23, 1993
MacGruber
Dec 16, 2021
The Six O'Clock Follies
Apr 24, 1980
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Hannibal
Apr 04, 2013
The Blues
Sep 28, 2003
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
The Muppets
Sep 22, 2015
Top Gear
Nov 21, 2010
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Jul 07, 2008
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Nov 17, 2006
Year Million
May 15, 2017
Madiba
Feb 01, 2017
Clipped
Jun 04, 2024
Roots
May 30, 2016
black-ish
Sep 24, 2014
The Civil War
Sep 23, 1990
What If...?
Aug 11, 2021
The Frame
Apr 09, 2013
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Sep 13, 1986
A Rumor of War
Sep 24, 1980
grown-ish
Jan 03, 2018
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Feb 10, 2023
The Magic Hour
Jun 08, 1998
mixed-ish
Sep 24, 2019
Jay Leno's Garage
Oct 07, 2015
#FreeRayshawn
Apr 13, 2020
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Oct 13, 2018
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Feb 10, 2023
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Sep 09, 2021
History's Greatest Mysteries
Nov 14, 2020
Conan
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