
Laurence Fishburne
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Biography
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).
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Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tony Awards

CSI: Miami

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

MADtv

House

What If...?

M*A*S*H

The Equalizer

Hill Street Blues

Trapper John, M.D.

Miami Vice

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

grown-ish

Top Gear

Number One on the Call Sheet

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

The Muppets

black-ish

mixed-ish

The Matrix Resurrections

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Civil War

A Rumor of War

Wick Is Pain

The Color Purple

Death Wish II

The Oscars

Thunderbolts*

Mission: Impossible III

Gardens of Stone

TMNT

Higher Learning

Ride Along

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Megalopolis

21

Transformers One

Cherry 2000

Ant-Man and the Wasp

The Amateur

Man of Steel

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Searching for Bobby Fischer

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Ice Road

Red Heat

Predators

The School for Good and Evil

Apocalypse Now

Mystic River

All the Old Knives

The Signal

Passengers

The Matrix Revisited

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

MacGruber

Cellar Door

The Matrix Recalibrated

Hannibal

John Wick: Chapter 2

Contagion

The Mule

Last Flag Flying

Osmosis Jones

The Six O'Clock Follies

Slingshot

Boyz n the Hood

Akeelah and the Bee

The Matrix

Clipped

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Assault on Precinct 13

The Matrix Revolutions

The Black List: Volume Two

The Matrix Reloaded

The Astronaut

What's Love Got to Do with It

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Event Horizon

The Tuskegee Airmen

Always Outnumbered

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

History's Greatest Mysteries
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