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, United States
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 114
- First Appeared:
- In the movie King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
- Latest Project:
- Movie Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018-07-06
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath | 2018-07-06 |
| Movie | America's Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2018 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | 2018-05-11 | |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2018 |
| Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | The Bowler King | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Movie | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman (Ultimate Edition) | Perry White | 2016-07-19 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
| 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 | 2014-09-24 |
| 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 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
| Movie | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2010-11-21 |
| 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 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| 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 | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Series | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
| Movie | Making The Matrix | Himself | 1999-09-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Series | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr./John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| 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 | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | 1988-12-25 | |
| Movie | School Daze | Dap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
| Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
| Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
| Series | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
| 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 2 | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
| Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
| Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |