Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He 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 adaption of the Shakespeare play. Fishburne has won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Drama Series Guest Actor for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne’s first marriage was to actress to Hajna O. Moss. They had two children together: a son, Langston and a daughter, Montana. Fishburne is now married to actress Gina Torres. They live in Hollywood with their daughter Delilah.
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- Born:
- Jul 30, 1961 In Augusta, Georgia, United States
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 127
- First Appeared:
- In the movie King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
- Latest Project:
- Movie John Wick: Chapter 4 2021-05-21
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2021-05-21 |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2020 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-17 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-08-16 | |
| Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2018 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Series | Year Million | Narrator | 2017-05-15 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-25 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | 2014-02-02 | |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | America's Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2012-11-26 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of Boyz n the Hood | 2011-07-19 | |
| Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2010-11-21 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Series | Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | Self | 2008-07-07 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-15 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) | 2005-09-05 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Himself | 2004-04-06 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Series | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
| Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
| Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Series | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| Movie | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | 1991-01-01 | |
| Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
| Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
| Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
| Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
| Series | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
| Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
| Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
| Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
| Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |