Laurence Fishburne

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1961-07-30 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Augusta, Georgia, USA

Also Known As Larry Fishburne, لورنس فيشبورن, 로런스 피시번, ローレンス・フィッシュバーン, Лоренс Фишберн, 勞倫斯·費許朋, Laurence John Fishburne, Λώρενς Τζον Φίσμπερν, Λώρενς Φίσμπερν, 劳伦斯·菲什伯恩, ローレンス・ジョン・フィッシュバーン, Лоуренс Фішборн

Laurence Fishburne

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Fishburne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

The Astronaut

as General William Harris

Crimson Blues

as Mills

2025
Sneaks

as The Collector (voice)

2025
The Amateur

as Henderson

2024
Cellar Door

as Emmett

2024
Transformers One

as Alpha Trion (voice)

2024
Slingshot

as Captain Franks

2024
Megalopolis

as Fundi Romaine

2024
Clipped

as Doc Rivers

2023
John Wick: Chapter 4

as Bowery King

2023
2022
Bonnie

as Self

2022
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

2021
MacGruber

as General Barrett Fasoose

2021
What If...?

as Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)

2020
Death to 2020

as Narrator (voice)

2020
2020
#FreeRayshawn

as Steven Poincy

2019
Imprisoned

as Daniel Calvin

2019
2019
2019
mixed-ish

as Pops Johnson

2018
The Mule

as Special Agent in Charge

2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp

as Dr. Bill Foster

2018
grown-ish

as Pops Johnson

2017
Last Flag Flying

as Reverend Richard Mueller

2017
John Wick: Chapter 2

as Bowery King

2017
Year Million

as Narrator

2017
Madiba

as Nelson Mandela

2016
Passengers

as Gus Mancuso

2016
The Snowy Day

as Narrator

2016
Standoff

as Sade

2016
Roots

as Alex Haley

2015
2015
The Muppets

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

2014
black-ish

as Pops Johnson

2013
Khumba

as Seko (voice)

2013
Man of Steel

as Perry White

2013
The Colony

as Briggs

2013
The Frame

as Perry White

2013
Hannibal

as Jack Crawford

2012
2011
Have a Little Faith

as Henry Covington

2011
2011
Contagion

as Ellis Cheever

2011
Thurgood

as Thurgood Marshall

2010
2010
2010
Predators

as Noland

2010
2010
Conan

as Self

2009
Armored

as Baines

2008
Days of Wrath

as Mr. Stafford

2008
Tortured

as Archie Green

2008
21

as Cole Williams

2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

2007
TMNT

as Narrator (voice)

2006
Bobby

as Edward Robinson

2006
Five Fingers

as Ahmat

2006
Akeelah and the Bee

as Dr. Larabee

2006
Mission: Impossible III

as Theodore Brassel

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

2003
2003
Mystic River

as Whitey Powers

2003
The Soul of a Man

as Self - Narrator

2003
2003
MTV Reloaded

as Morpheus (archive footage)

2003
Biker Boyz

as Smoke

2003
2003
The Blues

as Self - Narrator

2001
The Matrix Revisited

as Self - Morpheus

2001
Spooge

as Self

2001
Osmosis Jones

as Thrax (voice)

2000
Once in the Life

as 20 / 20 Mike

2000
Sex and the Matrix

as Morpheus (archive footage)

2000
Michael Jordan to the Max

as Narrator (voice)

2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Raymond Langston

1999
The Matrix

as Morpheus

1998
Welcome to Hollywood

as Laurence Fishburne

1998
Always Outnumbered

as Socrates Fortlow

1998
1997
1997
Hoodlum

as Bumpy Johnson

1997
Event Horizon

as Miller

1997
Miss Evers' Boys

as Caleb Humphries

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Fled

as Piper

1996
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

1995
MADtv

as Self

1992
Deep Cover

as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

1991
Boyz n the Hood

as Jason 'Furious' Styles

1991
Class Action

as Nick Holbrook

1990
Decoration Day

as Michael Waring, DOD Man

1990
Cadence

as Roosevelt Stokes

1990
King of New York

as Jimmy Jump

1990
The Civil War

as Various

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

1986
1986
Quicksilver

as Voodoo

1986
Pee-wee's Playhouse

as Cowboy Curtis

1985
1985
The Equalizer

as Casey Taylor

1984
The Cotton Club

as Bumpy Rhodes

1983
Rumble Fish

as Midget

1983
I Take These Men

as Hank Johnson

1982
Death Wish II

as Cutter

1980
Willie and Phil

as High School Student

1980
A Rumor of War

as Lightbulb

1980
The Six O'Clock Follies

as Robby Robinson

1979
Apocalypse Now

as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

1979
Fast Break

as Street Kid

1975
Cornbread, Earl and Me

as Wilford Robinson

1972
M*A*S*H

as Corporal Dorsey

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Michael Waring

Producer

2025
Sneaks

as Producer

2023
2022
2022
The Cave of Adullam

as Executive Producer

2019
mixed-ish

as Executive Producer

2018
grown-ish

as Executive Producer

2017
Year Million

as Executive Producer

2014
black-ish

as Executive Producer

2006
Five Fingers

as Producer

2006
2000
Once in the Life

as Producer

1998
Always Outnumbered

as Executive Producer

1997
Hoodlum

as Executive Producer

1997
Miss Evers' Boys

as Executive Producer

Writer

2000
2000
Once in the Life

as Screenplay

Director

2000
Once in the Life

as Director