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:
- 118
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Untitled Superman Project
- Latest Project:
- Movie John Wick: Chapter 3 2019-05-15
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Untitled Superman Project | Perry White | 2019 |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2019 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-03-22 | |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 | The Bowler King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath | 2018-07-04 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2018 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-17 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | The Bowler King | 2017-02-08 |
| Series | Year Million | Narrator | 2017-05-15 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | America's Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2012-11-26 |
| Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-09 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2010-11-21 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Series | Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | Self | 2008-07-07 |
| Movie | Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
| 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 | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| 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 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| 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 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Series | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| 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 | |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
| 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 | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
| Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| 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 |
| Series | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
| Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| 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 |