Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) 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 frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are 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 Color 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), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
Born: 30 July 1961
Played In
Untitled The Exorcist Film
Gatto
Rocco (voice)
The Astronaut
General William Harris
Megadoc
Self
Wick Is Pain
Self
Sneaks
The Collector (voice)
The Amateur
Henderson
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
Cellar Door
Emmett
Megalopolis
Fundi Romaine
Transformers One
Alpha Trion (voice)
Slingshot
Captain Franks
Clipped
Doc Rivers
John Wick: Chapter 4
Bowery King
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Foster (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
The Beyonder (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Backstory Man (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Beyonder (voice)
Bonnie
Self
The School for Good and Evil
School Master
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
Self
All the Old Knives
Vick Wallinger
Death to 2021
Narrator (voice)
The Matrix Resurrections
Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
MacGruber
General Barrett Fasoose
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
What If...?
Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
What If...?
Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
The Ice Road
Goldenrod
Under the Stadium Lights
Harold Christian
Death to 2020
Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Mysteries
Self - Host
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Self
Our Lady of 121st Street
Rooftop
#FreeRayshawn
Steven Poincy
The Witcher
Regis
mixed-ish
Pops Johnson
Imprisoned
Daniel Calvin
Running with the Devil
The Man
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Paul Jellinek
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Bowery King
The Mule
Special Agent in Charge
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Self
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Bill Foster
grown-ish
Pops Johnson
Last Flag Flying
Reverend Richard Mueller
Year Million
Narrator
John Wick: Chapter 2
Bowery King
Madiba
Nelson Mandela
Passengers
Gus Mancuso
The Snowy Day
Narrator (voice)
Roots
Alex Haley
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Perry White
Standoff
Sade
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Self
Jay Leno's Garage
Self
The Muppets
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Self
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Self
Rudderless
Del
black-ish
Pops Johnson
The Signal
Dr. Wallace Damon
Ride Along
Omar
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
Khumba
Seko (voice)
Man of Steel
Perry White
The Colony
Briggs
The Frame
Perry White
Hannibal
Jack Crawford
Slavery by Another Name
Narrator
Have a Little Faith
Henry Covington
A Man's Story
Self
Contagion
Ellis Cheever
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Self
Thurgood
Thurgood Marshall
Top Gear
Conan
Self
Predators: Moments of Extraction
Noland (voice)
Predators
Noland
Rappin' With The Rickster
Self
Predators: The Chosen
Armored
Baines
The Black List: Volume Two
Self
Days of Wrath
Mr. Stafford
Tortured
Archie Green
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Self
21
Cole Williams
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Tad Gruzsa
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Narrator
TMNT
Narrator (voice)
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
Narrator
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
Bobby
Edward Robinson
Five Fingers
Ahmat
Akeelah and the Bee
Dr. Larabee
Mission: Impossible III
Theodore Brassel
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
Self
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)
Ashes and Snow
Narrator (voice)
Assault on Precinct 13
Marion Bishop
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
Self
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
Self
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
Self
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
Morpheus
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Self
The Matrix Recalibrated
Self
The Matrix Revolutions
Morpheus
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Self
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Self
Mystic River
Whitey Powers
The Blues
Self - Narrator
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Self
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Self
The Soul of a Man
Self - Narrator
The Matrix Reloaded
Morpheus
MTV Reloaded
Morpheus (archive footage)
Biker Boyz
Smoke
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
A History of Sex
Self
CSI: Miami
CSI Dr. Ray Langston
Undercover Brother
Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)
The Matrix Revisited
Self - Morpheus
Spooge
Self
Osmosis Jones
Thrax (voice)
Once in the Life
20 / 20 Mike
Welcome to Hollywood
Laurence Fishburne
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Raymond Langston
Sex and the Matrix
Morpheus (archive footage)
Michael Jordan to the Max
Narrator (voice)
Making "The Matrix"
Self
The Matrix
Morpheus
The Magic Hour
Self
Always Outnumbered
Socrates Fortlow
Black Hollywood
Self
Hoodlum
Bumpy Johnson
Event Horizon
Miller
The View
Self
Miss Evers' Boys
Caleb Humphries
The Daily Show
Self
Fled
Piper
Othello
Othello
MADtv
Self
The Tuskegee Airmen
Hannibal Lee
Just Cause
Sheriff Tanny Brown
Bad Company
Nelson Crowe
Higher Learning
Professor Maurice Phipps
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Vinnie
What's Love Got to Do with It
Ike Turner
TriBeCa
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Deep Cover
Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
Boyz n the Hood
Furious Styles
Class Action
Nick Holbrook
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Self
Decoration Day
Michael Waring, DOD Man
Cadence
Roosevelt Stokes
The Civil War
Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)
King of New York
Jimmy Jump
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Cowboy Curtis
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Red Heat
Lt. Stobbs
School Daze
Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
Cherry 2000
Glu Glu Lawyer
Gardens of Stone
Sgt. Flanagan
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Max
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Cowboy Curtis
Band of the Hand
Cream
Quicksilver
Voodoo
The Color Purple
Swain
Spenser: For Hire
The Equalizer
Casey Taylor
The Cotton Club
Bumpy Rhodes
Miami Vice
Prison Guard Keller
Rumble Fish
Midget
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Jimbo Collins
I Take These Men
Hank Johnson
Death Wish II
Cutter
Hill Street Blues
A Rumor of War
Lightbulb
Willie & Phil
High School Student
The Six O'Clock Follies
Robby Robinson
Trapper John, M.D.
Apocalypse Now
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Fast Break
Street Kid
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Wilford Robinson
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
Fish
M*A*S*H
Corporal Dorsey
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Michael Waring
The Little Bedroom
Blacksmith
Mather
The Blacksmith
Mather
Crimson Blues
Mills
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Self
Inheritance
Interference