Laurence Fishburne
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.
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- Born:
- Jul 30, 1961 In Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 91
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Cornbread, Earl and Me 1975-05-21
- Latest Project:
- Movie Untitled Superman Project 2020-12-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Untitled Superman Project | Perry White | 2020-12-31 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019-03-22 | |
| Movie | John Wick 3: Parabellum | The Bowler King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | The Bowler King | 2017-02-08 |
| Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| 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 | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| 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 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| 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 | 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 | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
| Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
| Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| 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 | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| 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 | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| 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 | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
| Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |