
Laurence Fishburne
Acting
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).

The Exorcist

The Astronaut
General William Harris

Megadoc
Self

Wick Is Pain
Self

Sneaks
The Collector (voice)

The Amateur
Henderson

Cellar Door
Emmett

Megalopolis
Fundi Romaine

Transformers One
Alpha Trion (voice)

Slingshot
Captain Franks

John Wick: Chapter 4
Bowery King

Bonnie
Self

The School for Good and Evil
School Master

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
Self

All the Old Knives
Vick Wallinger

Death to 2021
Narrator (voice)

The Matrix Resurrections
Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Ice Road
Goldenrod

Under the Stadium Lights
Harold Christian

Death to 2020
Narrator (voice)

Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Self

Our Lady of 121st Street
Rooftop

Imprisoned
Daniel Calvin

Running with the Devil
The Man

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Paul Jellinek

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Bowery King

The Mule
Special Agent in Charge

Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Bill Foster

Last Flag Flying
Reverend Richard Mueller

John Wick: Chapter 2
Bowery King

Passengers
Gus Mancuso

The Snowy Day
Narrator (voice)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Perry White

Standoff
Sade

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Self

Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Self

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Self

Rudderless
Del

The Signal
Dr. Wallace Damon

Ride Along
Omar

Khumba
Seko (voice)

Man of Steel
Perry White

The Colony
Briggs

Slavery by Another Name
Narrator

Have a Little Faith
Henry Covington

A Man's Story
Self

Contagion
Ellis Cheever

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Self

Thurgood
Thurgood Marshall

Predators: Moments of Extraction
Noland (voice)

Predators
Noland

Predators: The Chosen

Rappin' With The Rickster
Self

Armored
Baines

The Black List: Volume Two
Self

Days of Wrath
Mr. Stafford

Tortured
Archie Green

21
Cole Williams

The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Tad Gruzsa

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

TMNT
Narrator (voice)

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
Narrator

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self

Bobby
Edward Robinson

Five Fingers
Ahmat

Akeelah and the Bee
Dr. Larabee

Mission: Impossible III
Theodore Brassel

The Making of 'Event Horizon'
Self

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)

Ashes and Snow
Narrator (voice)

Assault on Precinct 13
Marion Bishop

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
Morpheus

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
Self

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
Self

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
Self
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Self

The Matrix Recalibrated
Self

The Matrix Revolutions
Morpheus
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Self
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Self

Mystic River
Whitey Powers

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Self

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Self

The Soul of a Man
Self - Narrator

The Matrix Reloaded
Morpheus

MTV Reloaded
Morpheus (archive footage)

Biker Boyz
Smoke
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
Self

A History of Sex
Self

Undercover Brother
Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)

The Matrix Revisited
Self - Morpheus

Spooge
Self

Osmosis Jones
Thrax (voice)

Welcome to Hollywood
Laurence Fishburne

Once in the Life
20 / 20 Mike

Sex and the Matrix
Morpheus (archive footage)

Michael Jordan to the Max
Narrator (voice)

Making "The Matrix"
Self

The Matrix
Morpheus

Always Outnumbered
Socrates Fortlow
Black Hollywood
Self

Hoodlum
Bumpy Johnson

Event Horizon
Miller

Miss Evers' Boys
Caleb Humphries

Fled
Piper

Othello
Othello

The Tuskegee Airmen
Hannibal Lee

Just Cause
Sheriff Tanny Brown

Bad Company
Nelson Crowe

Higher Learning
Professor Maurice Phipps

Searching for Bobby Fischer
Vinnie

What's Love Got to Do with It
Ike Turner

Deep Cover
Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self

Boyz n the Hood
Furious Styles

Class Action
Nick Holbrook

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Self

Decoration Day
Michael Waring, DOD Man

Cadence
Roosevelt Stokes

King of New York
Jimmy Jump

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Cowboy Curtis

Red Heat
Lt. Stobbs

School Daze
Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap

Cherry 2000
Glu Glu Lawyer

Gardens of Stone
Sgt. Flanagan

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Max

Band of the Hand
Cream

Quicksilver
Voodoo

The Color Purple
Swain

The Cotton Club
Bumpy Rhodes

Rumble Fish
Midget

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Jimbo Collins

I Take These Men
Hank Johnson

Death Wish II
Cutter

Willie & Phil
High School Student

Apocalypse Now
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

Fast Break
Street Kid

Cornbread, Earl and Me
Wilford Robinson

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
Fish







