Birth Day: 1961-07-30
Place of birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA
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).
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As Narrator (voice) -
As Goldenrod -
As Harold Christian -
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As Rooftop -
As Daniel Calvin -
As Bowery King -
As The Man -
As Paul Jellinek -
As Dr. Bill Foster -
As Special Agent in Charge -
As Reverend Richard Mueller -
As Bowery King -
As Perry White -
As Sade -
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As Dr. Wallace Damon -
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As Omar -
As Del -
As Perry White -
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As Briggs -
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As Henry Covington -
As Self -
As Thurgood Marshall -
As Ellis Cheever -
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As Noland -
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As Jack
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As Baines -
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As Mr. Stafford -
As Archie Green -
As Cole Williams -
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As Tad Gruzsa -
As Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) -
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As Dr. Larabee -
As Edward Robinson -
As Ahmat -
As Theodore Brassel -
As Marion Bishop -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) -
As Self -
As Self -
As Self -
As Himself -
As Morpheus (archive footage) -
As Self -
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As Whitey Powers -
As Self
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As Smoke -
As Self - Narrator -
As Morpheus -
As Morpheus -
As Self
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As Self -
As Self - Morpheus -
As Self -
As Thrax (voice) -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Morpheus (archive footage) -
As 20 / 20 Mike -
As Self -
As Morpheus -
As Socrates Fortlow -
As Laurence Fishburne -
As Bumpy Johnson -
As Miller -
As Caleb Humphries -
As Self
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As Piper -
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As Nelson Crowe -
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As Ike Turner -
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As Jason 'Furious' Styles -
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As Jimmy Jump -
As Roosevelt Stokes -
As Michael Waring, DOD Man -
As Cowboy Curtis -
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As Voodoo -
As Cream -
As Swain -
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As Hank Johnson -
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As Cutter -
As High School Student -
As Street Kid -
As Tyrone 'Clean' Miller -
As Wilford Robinson -
As Fish -
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As Mills -
As General William Harris
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