
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.
Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2020 |
Movie | Untitled Superman Project | Perry White | 2020-12-31 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | The Bowler King | 2019-05-17 |
Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-03-22 | |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
Movie | The Mule | DEA Special Agent | 2018-12-14 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-02-01 |
Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
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 | |
Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
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 | America's Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2012-11-26 |
Movie | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
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 | 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 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) | 2005-09-05 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Himself | 2004-04-06 |
Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
Movie | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | 1991-01-01 | |
Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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 | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
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 | 1987-11-12 |
Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |