
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 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2019 |
Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | 2018-05-11 | |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath | 2018-07-05 |
Series | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2017 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | The Bowler King | 2017-02-08 |
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 | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
Movie | Batman v Superman (Ultimate Edition) | Perry White | 2016-07-19 |
Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
Series | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
Movie | America's Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | 2012-11-26 |
Movie | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2010-11-21 |
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 | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
Movie | Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Himself | 2004-04-06 |
Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Himself | 2003-01-30 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
Movie | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
Series | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Making The Matrix | Himself | 1999-09-01 |
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 |
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 |
Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
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 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
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 | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-19 |
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 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-12 |
Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
Series | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
Series | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
Movie | Death Wish 2 | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1982-01-01 |
Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
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 |