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:
- 133
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie John Wick: Chapter 4 2022-05-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2022-05-25 |
| Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-14 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
| 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' | Himself | 2018-10-13 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | 2016-03-15 | |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| 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 | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | 2014-02-01 | |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of Boyz n the Hood | 2011-07-19 | |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| 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 | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| 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 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| 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 Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| 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 | Self | 2004-04-06 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| 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 | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-03 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| 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 | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Series | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-25 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| 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 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Ryan | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |