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 Where'd You Go, Bernadette 2019-08-16
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2020 |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2020 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-08-16 | |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | The Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | 2016-03-18 | |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| 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 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| 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 | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
| 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 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| 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 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| 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 | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Series | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| 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 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
| Series | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| 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 | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
| Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| 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 | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
| Series | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
| Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |