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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Colour 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), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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!
The Oscars
MADtv
House
M*A*S*H
The Equalizer
Hill Street Blues
Trapper John, M.D.
What If...?
Miami Vice
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
grown-ish
Top Gear
Number One on the Call Sheet
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Muppets
mixed-ish
black-ish
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Matrix Resurrections
The Civil War
A Rumor of War
The Color Purple
Death Wish II
Mission: Impossible III
Gardens of Stone
TMNT
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Thunderbolts*
Higher Learning
Cherry 2000
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Transformers One
Megalopolis
21
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Ride Along
The Amateur
Man of Steel
Red Heat
John Wick: Chapter 4
Apocalypse Now
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The School for Good and Evil
Predators
Pee-wee's Playhouse
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
The Matrix Revisited
The Signal
All the Old Knives
John Wick: Chapter 2
MacGruber
Passengers
Mystic River
The Mule
Last Flag Flying
Hannibal
Cellar Door
The Matrix Recalibrated
The Ice Road
Contagion
The Six O'Clock Follies
The Matrix
Boyz n the Hood
The Black List: Volume Two
What's Love Got to Do with It
The Matrix Revolutions
Akeelah and the Bee
The Matrix Reloaded
Clipped
Assault on Precinct 13
Slingshot
The Tuskegee Airmen
History's Greatest Mysteries
Always Outnumbered
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Event Horizon
Production Credits
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grown-ish
Always Outnumbered
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Akeelah and the Bee
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