Laurence Fishburne
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).
202 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 202
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Daily Show
1996
CSI: Miami
2002
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Conan
2010
The Witcher
2019
M*A*S*H
1972
Hannibal
2013
Miami Vice
1984
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Hill Street Blues
1981
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Matrix
1999
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Equalizer
1985
black-ish
2014
Tony Awards
1956
What If...?
2021
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
grown-ish
2018
The Oscars
1953
Man of Steel
2013
Apocalypse Now
1979
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
The Amateur
2025
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Transformers One
2024
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
Mission: Impossible III
2006
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
Contagion
2011
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
Event Horizon
1997
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986
Predators
2010
The Civil War
1990
Passengers
2016
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Mystic River
2003
The School for Good and Evil
2022
mixed-ish
2019
21
2008
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
The Muppets
2015
The Frame
2013
Top Gear
2010
The Mule
2018
Roots
2016
The Astronaut
2025
Boyz n the Hood
1991
The Colony
2013
The Color Purple
1985
Red Heat
1988
Megalopolis
2024
TMNT
2007
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
The Blues
2003
The Ice Road
2021
Clipped
2024
MacGruber
2021
The Magic Hour
1998
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
King of New York
1990
Ride Along
2014
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
The Signal
2014
#FreeRayshawn
2020
Bobby
2006
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Osmosis Jones
2001
Slingshot
2024
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Hoodlum
1997
Sneaks
2025
Wick Is Pain
2025
Just Cause
1995
Death Wish II
1982
TriBeCa
1993
Fled
1996
A Rumor of War
1980
Armored
2009
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Khumba
2013
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
The Cotton Club
1984
Biker Boyz
2003
Undercover Brother
2002
Madiba
2017
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
MADtv
1995
Higher Learning
1995
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018
Deep Cover
1992
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
Rumble Fish
1983
All the Old Knives
2022
Cherry 2000
1987
Running with the Devil
2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
Death to 2021
2021
Standoff
2016
Death to 2020
2020
Year Million
2017
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Megadoc
2025
Cellar Door
2024
Once in the Life
2000
Cadence
1990
Bad Company
1995
Rudderless
2014
Quicksilver
1986
The Matrix Revisited
2001
The Six O'Clock Follies
1980
Band of the Hand
1986
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Class Action
1991
Tortured
2008
Last Flag Flying
2017
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
Untitled The Exorcist Film
2027
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
School Daze
1988
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022
Othello
1995
Gardens of Stone
1987
A Man's Story
2011
Bonnie
2022
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
Sex and the Matrix
2000
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Decoration Day
1990
Making "The Matrix"
1999
Have a Little Faith
2011
Imprisoned
2019
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
MTV Reloaded
2003
Five Fingers
2006
Always Outnumbered
1998
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
I Take These Men
1983
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
Days of Wrath
2008
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
Fast Break
1979
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
A History of Sex
2003
The Soul of a Man
2003
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
Willie & Phil
1980
Under the Stadium Lights
2021
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
Predators: The Chosen
2010
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004
The Blacksmith
—
The Snowy Day
2016
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
2004
Ashes and Snow
2005
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
2003
The Little Bedroom
—
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020
Spooge
2001
Slavery by Another Name
2012
Shmatrix
2003
Crimson Blues
—
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
Black Hollywood
1997
Inheritance
—
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
—
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
2007
Thurgood
2011
Blacksmith
—
Interference
—
America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2007