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.
Series | The Sterling Affairs | Doc Rivers | 2025 |
Movie | Megalopolis | 2025 | |
Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2025 |
Movie | Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-23 |
Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2024-10-10 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 |
Movie | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
Movie | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
Movie | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
Movie | The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
Movie | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 |
Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
Movie | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
Series | History's Greatest Mysteries | Self - Host | 2020-11-14 |
Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
Movie | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | 2016-03-15 | |
Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
Movie | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
Movie | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 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 | 2006-04-25 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-05 |
Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 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 | Self | 2003-09-02 |
Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-03-03 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
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 | 1999-03-31 |
Movie | Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
Movie | Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
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 | 1994-08-14 |
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 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Movie | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
Movie | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1986-09-13 |
Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
Movie | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
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 | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |