10.0
10.0
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
as Self
Laurence Fishburne
Also known as: Laurence John Fishburne III, Larry Fishburne
Acting
Born:July 30, 1961(age 65)
Birthplace:Augusta, Georgia, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Hollywood High School, Talent Unlimited High School
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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).
Notable Works
The MatrixJohn Wick
Filmography (138 movies)
10.0
10.0
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022
as Self
8.5
8.5
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Self
8.3
8.3
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
8.3
8.3
The Matrix
1999
as Morpheus
8.0
8.0
Transformers One
2024
as Alpha Trion (voice)
7.9
7.9
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
7.7
7.7
Mystic River
2003
as Whitey Powers
7.7
7.7
The Color Purple
1985
as Swain
7.7
7.7
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
as Bowery King
7.6
7.6
Boyz n the Hood
1991
as Furious Styles
7.5
7.5
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
as Self
7.5
7.5
Wick Is Pain
2025
as Self
7.4
7.4
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
as Self
7.4
7.4
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
as Bowery King
7.3
7.3
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
as Bowery King
7.3
7.3
MTV Reloaded
2003
as Morpheus (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000
as Narrator (voice)
7.2
7.2
Making 'The Matrix'
1999
as Self
7.2
7.2
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
as Cowboy Curtis
7.2
7.2
Slavery by Another Name
2012
as Narrator
7.2
7.2
Ashes and Snow
2005
as Narrator (voice)
7.2
7.2
Rudderless
2014
as Del
7.1
7.1
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004
as Self
7.1
7.1
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
2004
as Morpheus
7.1
7.1
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Hannibal Lee
7.1
7.1
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Vinnie
7.1
7.1
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
as Morpheus
7.1
7.1
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
Producer
7.1
7.1
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
as Ike Turner
7.1
7.1
The School for Good and Evil
2022
as School Master
7.0
7.0
The Snowy Day
2016
as Narrator (voice)
7.0
7.0
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
as Self
7.0
7.0
Rumble Fish
1983
as Midget
7.0
7.0
Passengers
2016
as Gus Mancuso
6.9
6.9
The Amateur
2025
as Henderson
6.9
6.9
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
as Dr. Bill Foster
6.9
6.9
Decoration Day
1990
as Michael Waring, DOD Man
6.9
6.9
A Man's Story
2011
as Self
6.9
6.9
The Mule
2018
as Special Agent in Charge
6.8
6.8
The Matrix Revisited
2001
as Self - Morpheus
6.8
6.8
The Ice Road
2021
as Goldenrod
6.8
6.8
Last Flag Flying
2017
as Reverend Richard Mueller
6.8
6.8
Deep Cover
1992
as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
6.7
6.7
Mission: Impossible III
2006
as Theodore Brassel
6.7
6.7
King of New York
1990
as Jimmy Jump
6.7
6.7
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
as Morpheus
6.7
6.7
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
as Max
6.7
6.7
Cadence
1990
as Roosevelt Stokes
6.7
6.7
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004
as Self
6.7
6.7
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
as Self
6.7
6.7
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975
as Wilford Robinson
6.7
6.7
21
2008
as Cole Williams
6.6
6.6
Contagion
2011
as Ellis Cheever
6.6
6.6
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
as Self
6.6
6.6
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
as Paul Jellinek
6.6
6.6
Man of Steel
2013
as Perry White
6.6
6.6
Event Horizon
1997
as Miller
6.5
6.5
Thurgood
2011
as Thurgood Marshall
6.5
6.5
The Cotton Club
1984
as Bumpy Rhodes
6.5
6.5
Osmosis Jones
2001
as Thrax (voice)
6.5
6.5
The Soul of a Man
2003
as Self - Narrator
6.5
6.5
Death to 2020
2020
as Narrator (voice)
6.4
6.4
Bobby
2006
as Edward Robinson
6.4
6.4
Sex and the Matrix
2000
as Morpheus (archive footage)
6.4
6.4
Always Outnumbered
1998
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Have a Little Faith
2011
as Henry Covington
6.4
6.4
Hoodlum
1997
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Othello
1995
as Othello
6.3
6.3
Class Action
1991
as Nick Holbrook
6.3
6.3
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Higher Learning
1995
as Professor Maurice Phipps
6.3
6.3
Predators
2010
as Noland
6.3
6.3
Ride Along
2014
as Omar
6.2
6.2
Death Wish II
1982
as Cutter
6.2
6.2
Just Cause
1995
as Sheriff Tanny Brown
6.2
6.2
Biker Boyz
2003
as Smoke
6.2
6.2
Gardens of Stone
1987
as Sgt. Flanagan
6.2
6.2
Red Heat
1988
as Lt. Stobbs
6.2
6.2
Slingshot
2024
as Captain Franks
6.2
6.2
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
as Marion Bishop
6.2
6.2
Band of the Hand
1986
as Cream
6.2
6.2
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
as Tad Gruzsa
6.1
6.1
The Astronaut
2025
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
TMNT
2007
as Narrator (voice)
6.1
6.1
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
as Self
6.0
6.0
Standoff
2016
as Sade
6.0
6.0
The Signal
2014
as Dr. Wallace Damon
6.0
6.0
All the Old Knives
2022
as Vick Wallinger
6.0
6.0
Khumba
2013
as Seko (voice)
6.0
6.0
Under the Stadium Lights
2021
as Harold Christian
6.0
6.0
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
as Self
6.0
6.0
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
as Self
6.0
6.0
Sneaks
2025
Producer
6.0
6.0
Five Fingers
2006
Producer
6.0
6.0
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Perry White
6.0
6.0
Cherry 2000
1987
as Glu Glu Lawyer
6.0
6.0
Death to 2021
2021
as Narrator (voice)
5.8
5.8
Cellar Door
2024
as Emmett
5.7
5.7
Armored
2009
as Baines
5.7
5.7
School Daze
1988
as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
5.6
5.6
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
5.6
5.6
Fled
1996
as Piper
5.5
5.5
Quicksilver
1986
as Voodoo
5.5
5.5
Days of Wrath
2008
as Mr. Stafford
5.5
5.5
Tortured
2008
as Archie Green
5.4
5.4
The Colony
2013
as Briggs
5.4
5.4
Running with the Devil
2019
as The Man
5.3
5.3
A History of Sex
2003
as Self
5.2
5.2
Megalopolis
2024
as Fundi Romaine
5.0
5.0
Bonnie
2022
as Self
4.9
4.9
Bad Company
1995
as Nelson Crowe
4.8
4.8
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
as Self
4.6
4.6
Imprisoned
2019
as Daniel Calvin
4.5
4.5
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
as Self
4.3
4.3
Once in the Life
2000
Producer
4.3
4.3
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
as Self
4.0
4.0
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
as Noland (voice)
2.0
2.0
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
as Self
2.0
2.0
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
as Self
1.0
1.0
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972
as Fish
1.0
1.0
I Take These Men
1983
as Hank Johnson
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
2003
as Self
The Blacksmith
TBA
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020
as Rooftop
Crimson Blues
TBA
as Mills
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
as Self
Black Hollywood
1997
as Self
The Little Bedroom
TBA
Spooge
2001
as Self
Megadoc
2025
as Self
Blacksmith
TBA
as Mather
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
as Self
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
as Self
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
2007
as Narrator
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
TBA
as Self
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
as Jimbo Collins
The Cave of Adullam
2022
Producer
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