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:
- 142
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie John Wick: Chapter 4 2023-03-23
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The School for Good and Evil | The Schoolmaster | 2023 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-23 |
| Movie | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
| Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
| Movie | The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
| Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
| Movie | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
| Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
| Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
| Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | 2016-03-15 | |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of Boyz n the Hood | 2011-07-19 | |
| Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | (archival footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| 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' | 2006-04-18 | |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-05 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
| Movie | Making 'The Matrix' | Himself | 1999-09-21 |
| 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 | 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 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| 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 | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| 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 Ryan | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
| Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
| Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
| 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 | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
| Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
| 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 |
| Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
| Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |