Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Birthday: 1961-07-30

Place of birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA

Also known as: Larry Fishburne, لورنس فيشبورن, 로런스 피시번, ローレンス・フィッシュバーン, Лоренс Фишберн, 勞倫斯·費許朋, Laurence John Fishburne, Λώρενς Τζον Φίσμπερν, Λώρενς Φίσμπερν, 劳伦斯·菲什伯恩, ローレンス・ジョン・フィッシュバーン, Лоуренс Фішборн, لارنس فیشبرن

imdb_id: nm0000401

Biography:

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).

Played in movies:

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Score: 10.0

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

Score: 10.0

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Score: 8.5

Apocalypse Now

Score: 8.3

The Matrix

Score: 8.2

Megadoc

Score: 8.0

Transformers One

Score: 8.0

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Score: 7.9

John Wick: Chapter 4

Score: 7.7

The Color Purple

Score: 7.7

Mystic River

Score: 7.7

Boyz n the Hood

Score: 7.6

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Score: 7.5

Wick Is Pain

Score: 7.4

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

Score: 7.4

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Score: 7.4

MTV Reloaded

Score: 7.3

Michael Jordan to the Max

Score: 7.3

John Wick: Chapter 2

Score: 7.3

Making 'The Matrix'

Score: 7.3

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Score: 7.2

Slavery by Another Name

Score: 7.2

Ashes and Snow

Score: 7.2

Rudderless

Score: 7.2

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Score: 7.2

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

Score: 7.2

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

Score: 7.1

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Score: 7.1

Akeelah and the Bee

Score: 7.1

The Tuskegee Airmen

Score: 7.1

The Matrix Reloaded

Score: 7.1

The School for Good and Evil

Score: 7.0

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

Score: 7.0

The Snowy Day

Score: 7.0

Passengers

Score: 7.0

What's Love Got to Do with It

Score: 7.0

Rumble Fish

Score: 7.0

The Amateur

Score: 7.0

The Mule

Score: 6.9

A Man's Story

Score: 6.9

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Score: 6.9

Decoration Day

Score: 6.9

The Ice Road

Score: 6.8

Last Flag Flying

Score: 6.8

The Matrix Revisited

Score: 6.8

King of New York

Score: 6.8

Deep Cover

Score: 6.8

The Matrix Recalibrated

Score: 6.8

Mission: Impossible III

Score: 6.8

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

Score: 6.7

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Score: 6.7

Cadence

Score: 6.7

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Score: 6.7

The Matrix Revolutions

Score: 6.7

21

Score: 6.7

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Score: 6.6

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Score: 6.6

Man of Steel

Score: 6.6

Contagion

Score: 6.6

Event Horizon

Score: 6.6

Thurgood

Score: 6.5

Osmosis Jones

Score: 6.5

Death to 2020

Score: 6.5

The Cotton Club

Score: 6.5

The Soul of a Man

Score: 6.5

Sex and the Matrix

Score: 6.4

Have a Little Faith

Score: 6.4

Always Outnumbered

Score: 6.4

Hoodlum

Score: 6.4

Bobby

Score: 6.4

Class Action

Score: 6.3

Ride Along

Score: 6.3

Miss Evers' Boys

Score: 6.3

Othello

Score: 6.3

Higher Learning

Score: 6.3

Predators

Score: 6.3

Death Wish II

Score: 6.2

Biker Boyz

Score: 6.2

Slingshot

Score: 6.2

Gardens of Stone

Score: 6.2

Red Heat

Score: 6.2

Just Cause

Score: 6.2

Assault on Precinct 13

Score: 6.2

Sneaks

Score: 6.2

Band of the Hand

Score: 6.2

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

Score: 6.1

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Score: 6.1

TMNT

Score: 6.1

All the Old Knives

Score: 6.0

Under the Stadium Lights

Score: 6.0

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

Score: 6.0

The Black List: Volume Two

Score: 6.0

Standoff

Score: 6.0

The Signal

Score: 6.0

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Score: 6.0

Khumba

Score: 6.0

Death to 2021

Score: 6.0

Cherry 2000

Score: 6.0

Five Fingers

Score: 6.0

The Astronaut

Score: 5.9

Cellar Door

Score: 5.9

Armored

Score: 5.8

School Daze

Score: 5.7

Fled

Score: 5.6

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Score: 5.6

Days of Wrath

Score: 5.5

Quicksilver

Score: 5.5

Tortured

Score: 5.5

The Colony

Score: 5.5

Running with the Devil

Score: 5.4

A History of Sex

Score: 5.3

Megalopolis

Score: 5.2

Bonnie

Score: 5.0

Bad Company

Score: 4.9

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

Score: 4.8

Fast Break

Score: 4.8

Imprisoned

Score: 4.6

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

Score: 4.5

Once in the Life

Score: 4.5

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

Score: 4.3

Willie & Phil

Score: 4.1

Predators: Moments of Extraction

Score: 4.0

Welcome to Hollywood

Score: 3.8

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

Score: 2.0

Rappin' With The Rickster

Score: 2.0

I Take These Men

Score: 1.0

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Score: 1.0

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

Score: 0.0

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

Score: 0.0

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

Score: 0.0

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

Score: 0.0

Crimson Blues

Score: 0.0

Our Lady of 121st Street

Score: 0.0

The Blacksmith

Score: 0.0

Blacksmith

Score: 0.0

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Score: 0.0

Spooge

Score: 0.0

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Score: 0.0

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

Score: 0.0

The Little Bedroom

Score: 0.0

Black Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Frame

Score: 10.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Year Million

Score: 8.4

Hannibal

Score: 8.3

What If...?

Score: 8.1

What If...?

Score: 8.1

The Witcher

Score: 8.0

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Score: 8.0

The Civil War

Score: 7.9

grown-ish

Score: 7.9

M*A*S*H

Score: 7.9

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.8

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.8

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.8

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Score: 7.8

Madiba

Score: 7.8

History's Greatest Mysteries

Score: 7.7

CSI: Miami

Score: 7.7

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Jay Leno's Garage

Score: 7.3

mixed-ish

Score: 7.3

#FreeRayshawn

Score: 7.2

The Blues

Score: 7.2

Conan

Score: 7.1

black-ish

Score: 7.1

The Equalizer

Score: 7.1

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Score: 7.1

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

Score: 7.0

MADtv

Score: 7.0

The Muppets

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Roots

Score: 6.9

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.7

Spenser: For Hire

Score: 6.7

Clipped

Score: 6.6

Trapper John, M.D.

Score: 6.5

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

Score: 6.3

Top Gear

Score: 6.3

A Rumor of War

Score: 6.0

TriBeCa

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

MacGruber

Score: 5.9

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Score: 5.4

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Score: 5.4

Number One on the Call Sheet

Score: 5.3

The Magic Hour

Score: 5.0

The View

Score: 4.3

The Six O'Clock Follies

Score: 0.0