Laurence Fishburne 1961 64
Laurence Fishburne 1961 64
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present).
For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992).
Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Colour Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), as well as having a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022). He is currently starring in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo alongside Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss.
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2025 The Astronaut as General William Harris Executive Producer
2025 The Little Bedroom
2025 Crimson Blues as Mills
2025 The Blacksmith
2025 Blacksmith as Mather
2025 Wick Is Pain as Self
2025 Sneaks as The Collector (voice) Producer
2025 The Amateur as Henderson
2024 Cellar Door as Emmett
2024 Megalopolis as Fundi Romaine
2024 Transformers One as Alpha Trion (voice)
2024 Slingshot as Captain Franks
2023 Lynch/Oz as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023 John Wick: Chapter 4 as Bowery King
2022 Bonnie as Self
2022 The School for Good and Evil as School Master
2022 Is That Black Enough for You?!? as Self
2022 The Cave of Adullam Producer, Executive Producer
2022 black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special as Self
2022 All the Old Knives as Vick Wallinger
2021 Death to 2021 as Narrator (voice)
2021 The Ice Road as Goldenrod
2021 Under the Stadium Lights as Harold Christian
2020 Death to 2020 as Narrator (voice)
2020 Ricky Powell: The Individualist as Self
2020 Our Lady of 121st Street as Rooftop
2019 Imprisoned as Daniel Calvin
2019 Running with the Devil as The Man
2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette as Paul Jellinek
2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Bowery King
2018 The Mule as Special Agent in Charge
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Bill Foster
2017 Last Flag Flying as Reverend Richard Mueller
2017 John Wick: Chapter 2 as Bowery King
2016 Passengers as Gus Mancuso
2016 The Snowy Day as Narrator (voice)
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Perry White
2016 Standoff as Sade
2015 Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon as Self
2015 Hannibal: Reimagining Red Dragon as Self
2015 Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self
2015 August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand as Self
2014 Rudderless as Del
2014 The Signal as Dr. Wallace Damon
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2014 Ride Along as Omar
2013 Khumba as Seko (voice)
2013 Man of Steel as Perry White
2013 The Colony as Briggs
2013 Hannibal as Jack Crawford
2012 Slavery by Another Name as Narrator
2011 Have a Little Faith as Henry Covington
2011 A Man's Story as Self
2011 Contagion as Ellis Cheever
2011 The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' as Self
2011 Thurgood as Thurgood Marshall
2010 Predators: The Chosen as Noland
2010 Predators: Moments of Extraction as Noland (Voice)
2010 Predators as Noland
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
2010 Rappin' With The Rickster as Self
2009 Armored as Baines
2009 Black Water Transit as Jack
2009 The Black List: Volume Two as Self
2008 Days of Wrath as Mr. Stafford
2008 Tortured as Archie Green
2008 21 as Cole Williams
2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z as Tad Gruzsa
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
2007 TMNT as Narrator (voice)
2007 King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self
2006 Bobby as Edward Robinson
2006 Five Fingers as Ahmat Producer
2006 Akeelah and the Bee as Dr. Larabee Producer
2006 Mission: Impossible III as Theodore Brassel
2006 The Making of 'Event Horizon' as Self
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
2005 Ashes and Snow as Narrator (voice)
2005 Assault on Precinct 13 as Marion Bishop
2004 The Matrix Reloaded Revisited as Self
2004 The Matrix Revolutions Revisited as Self
2004 The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase as Himself
2004 The Matrix Recalibrated as Self
2003 The Matrix Revolutions as Morpheus
2003 The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load as Self
2003 Mystic River as Whitey Powers
2003 Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend as Self
2003 Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty as Self
2003 The Soul of a Man as Self - Narrator
2003 The Matrix Reloaded as Morpheus
2003 MTV Reloaded as Morpheus (archive footage)
2003 Biker Boyz as Smoke
2003 Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' as Self
2003 A History of Sex as Self
2001 The Matrix Revisited as Self - Morpheus
2001 Spooge as Self
2001 Osmosis Jones as Thrax (voice)
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Laurence Fishburne
2000 Once in the Life as 20 / 20 Mike Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer
2000 Sex and the Matrix as Morpheus (archive footage)
2000 Michael Jordan to the Max as Narrator (voice)
1999 Making 'The Matrix' as Self
1999 The Matrix as Morpheus
1998 Always Outnumbered as Socrates Fortlow Executive Producer
1997 Black Hollywood as Self
1997 Hoodlum as Bumpy Johnson Executive Producer
1997 Event Horizon as Miller
1997 Miss Evers' Boys as Caleb Humphries Executive Producer
1996 Fled as Piper
1995 Othello as Othello
1995 The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
1995 Just Cause as Sheriff Tanny Brown
1995 Bad Company as Nelson Crowe
1995 Higher Learning as Professor Maurice Phipps
1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer as Vinnie
1993 What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
1992 Deep Cover as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
1991 Boyz n the Hood as Furious Styles
1991 Class Action as Nick Holbrook
1991 The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Self
1990 Decoration Day as Michael Waring, DOD Man
1990 Cadence as Roosevelt Stokes
1990 King of New York as Jimmy Jump
1988 Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special as Cowboy Curtis
1988 Red Heat as Lt. Stobbs
1988 School Daze as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
1987 Cherry 2000 as Glu Glu Lawyer
1987 Gardens of Stone as Sgt. Flanagan
1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Max
1986 Band of the Hand as Cream
1986 Quicksilver as Voodoo
1985 The Color Purple as Swain
1984 The Cotton Club as Bumpy Rhodes
1983 Rumble Fish as Midget
1983 For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Jimbo Collins
1983 I Take These Men as Hank Johnson
1982 Death Wish II as Cutter
1980 Willie and Phil as High School Student
1979 Apocalypse Now as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
1979 Fast Break as Street Kid
1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me as Wilford Robinson
1972 If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band as Fish