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Laurence Fishburne
Augusta, Georgia, USA
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 frequent…
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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).
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2027
The Exorcist: Martyrs
Movie
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2027
Gatto
Movie Rocco (voice)
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2025
The Astronaut
Movie General William Harris
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2025
Megadoc
Movie Self
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2025
Wick Is Pain
Movie Self
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2025
Sneaks
Movie The Collector (voice)
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2025
The Amateur
Movie Henderson
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2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
TV show Self
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2024
Cellar Door
Movie Emmett
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2024
Megalopolis
Movie Fundi Romaine
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2024
Transformers One
Movie Alpha Trion (voice)
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2024
Slingshot
Movie Captain Franks
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2024
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab
TV show Creator
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2024
Clipped
TV show Doc Rivers
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2023
John Wick: Chapter 4
Movie Bowery King
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2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV show Foster (voice)
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2022
Bonnie
Movie Self
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2022
The School for Good and Evil
Movie School Master
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2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Movie Self
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2022
The Cave of Adullam
Movie Producer
- 2022
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2022
All the Old Knives
Movie Vick Wallinger
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2021
Death to 2021
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2021
The Matrix Resurrections
Movie Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2021
MacGruber
TV show General Barrett Fasoose
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2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV show Self
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2021
What If...?
TV show Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
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2021
The Ice Road
Movie Goldenrod
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2021
Under the Stadium Lights
Movie Harold Christian
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2020
Death to 2020
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
History's Greatest Mysteries
TV show Self - Host
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2020
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Movie Self
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2020
Our Lady of 121st Street
Movie Rooftop
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2020
#FreeRayshawn
TV show Steven Poincy
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2019
The Witcher
TV show Regis
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2019
mixed-ish
TV show Pops Johnson
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2019
Imprisoned
Movie Daniel Calvin
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2019
Running with the Devil
Movie The Man
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2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Movie Paul Jellinek
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2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Movie Bowery King
