
Cast
Laurence Fishburne
Acting
Cast
Laurence Fishburne
Known for
Acting
Born
1961-07-30
From
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Also known as Larry Fishburne, Laurence John Fishburne, Лоуренс Фишборн
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).

The Matrix
as Morpheus

John Wick: Chapter 4
as Bowery King

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Perry White

Man of Steel
as Perry White

John Wick: Chapter 2
as Bowery King

Apocalypse Now
as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

The Amateur
as Henderson

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as Bowery King

The Matrix Reloaded
as Morpheus

Transformers One
as Alpha Trion (voice)

The Matrix Revolutions
as Morpheus

Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Bill Foster

The Matrix Resurrections
as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)

Event Horizon
as Miller

Mission: Impossible III
as Theodore Brassel

Predators
as Noland

Passengers
as Gus Mancuso

Mystic River
as Whitey Powers

The Astronaut
as General William Harris

TMNT
as Narrator (voice)

King of New York
as Jimmy Jump

21
as Cole Williams

The Colony
as Briggs

The Mule
as Special Agent in Charge

Contagion
as Ellis Cheever

The School for Good and Evil
as School Master

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

Red Heat
as Lt. Stobbs

The Color Purple
as Swain

The Ice Road
as Goldenrod

Megalopolis
as Fundi Romaine

Hoodlum
as Bumpy Johnson

Boyz n the Hood
as Furious Styles

Fled
as Piper

Ride Along
as Omar

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)

The Signal
as Dr. Wallace Damon

Sneaks
as The Collector (voice)

Osmosis Jones
as Thrax (voice)

Khumba
as Seko (voice)

The Cotton Club
as Bumpy Rhodes

Bobby
as Edward Robinson

Armored
as Baines

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Max

Assault on Precinct 13
as Marion Bishop

Death Wish II
as Cutter

Slingshot
as Captain Franks

Higher Learning
as Professor Maurice Phipps

Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Vinnie

Undercover Brother
as Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)

What's Love Got to Do with It
as Ike Turner

Just Cause
as Sheriff Tanny Brown

Bad Company
as Nelson Crowe

Biker Boyz
as Smoke

Cadence
as Roosevelt Stokes

All the Old Knives
as Vick Wallinger

Standoff
as Sade

Death to 2020
as Narrator (voice)

Running with the Devil
as The Man

Rumble Fish
as Midget

School Daze
as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap

Wick Is Pain
as Self

Akeelah and the Bee
as Dr. Larabee

Megadoc
as Self

Deep Cover
as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self

The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Tad Gruzsa

Bonnie
as Self

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
as Paul Jellinek

Rudderless
as Del

Welcome to Hollywood
as Laurence Fishburne

Class Action
as Nick Holbrook

Cherry 2000
as Glu Glu Lawyer

Tortured
as Archie Green

The Tuskegee Airmen
as Hannibal Lee

The Matrix Revisited
as Self - Morpheus

Quicksilver
as Voodoo

Cellar Door
as Emmett

Band of the Hand
as Cream

Death to 2021
as Narrator (voice)

Last Flag Flying
as Reverend Richard Mueller

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
as Self

Miss Evers' Boys
as Caleb Humphries

Untitled The Exorcist Film

Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Flanagan

Five Fingers
as Ahmat

The Matrix Recalibrated
as Self

A Man's Story
as Self

Once in the Life
as 20 / 20 Mike

Othello
as Othello

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
as Self (archive footage)

Making "The Matrix"
as Self

Sex and the Matrix
as Morpheus (archive footage)

Decoration Day
as Michael Waring, DOD Man

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
as Cowboy Curtis

Have a Little Faith
as Henry Covington

Days of Wrath
as Mr. Stafford

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
as Self

Rappin' With The Rickster
as Self

Always Outnumbered
as Socrates Fortlow

Willie & Phil
as High School Student

Under the Stadium Lights
as Harold Christian

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
as Self

Ashes and Snow
as Narrator (voice)

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
as Self

Sean Connery: In His Own Words
as Self

Our Lady of 121st Street
as Rooftop

MTV Reloaded
as Morpheus (archive footage)

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

Ricky Powell: The Individualist
as Self

Imprisoned
as Daniel Calvin

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as Jimbo Collins

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
as Self

The Snowy Day
as Narrator (voice)

Cornbread, Earl and Me
as Wilford Robinson

I Take These Men
as Hank Johnson

Fast Break
as Street Kid

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
as Self

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
as Self

Spooge
as Self

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
as Morpheus

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
as Self

The Blacksmith
as Mather

The Black List: Volume Two
as Self

The Making of 'Event Horizon'
as Self

Michael Jordan to the Max
as Narrator (voice)

Predators: Moments of Extraction
as Noland (voice)

A History of Sex
as Self

Inheritance

Crimson Blues
as Mills

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
as Self

Predators: The Chosen

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
as Fish

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
as Self

Interference

Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self

The Little Bedroom

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
as Self

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
as Self

The Soul of a Man
as Self - Narrator

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self

Slavery by Another Name
as Narrator

Thurgood
as Thurgood Marshall

Black Hollywood
as Self

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
as Narrator

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
as Narrator

Blacksmith
as Mather