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Laurence Fishburne

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Biography

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).

Overview

Known For

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tony Awards

CSI: Miami

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

grown-ish

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

mixed-ish

black-ish

The Matrix Resurrections

Mission: Impossible III

TMNT

Higher Learning

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

The School for Good and Evil

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

The Matrix Recalibrated

What's Love Got to Do with It

The Black List: Volume Two

Assault on Precinct 13

The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Reloaded

The Six O'Clock Follies

History's Greatest Mysteries

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Event Horizon

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