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:
- 121
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Imprisoned
- Latest Project:
- Movie John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum 2019-05-17
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2020 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2020 |
| Movie | Untitled Superman Project | Perry White | 2020 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-03-22 | |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | The Bowler King | 2019-05-17 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | DEA Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-02-01 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | 2016-03-18 | |
| Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| 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 | 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 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| 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 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) | 2005-09-05 |
| Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Himself | 2004-04-06 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
| 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 | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| 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 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| 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 | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
| Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |