Laurence Fishburne (b. 1961)

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

Birthplace:
Augusta, Georgia, USA

Born:
July 30, 1961

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of 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 in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.  Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple (1985), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Contagion (2011), 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), as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–present).

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Director:
2000  Once in the Life

Executive Producer:
1997  Hoodlum
1997  Miss Evers' Boys
1998  Always Outnumbered
2000  Once in the Life
2022  The Cave of Adullam

Producer:
1997  Hoodlum
1997  Miss Evers' Boys
1998  Always Outnumbered
2000  Once in the Life
2006  Akeelah and the Bee
2006  Five Fingers
2022  The Cave of Adullam
2025  Sneaks

Screenplay:
1997  Hoodlum
1997  Miss Evers' Boys
1998  Always Outnumbered
2000  Once in the Life
2006  Akeelah and the Bee
2006  Five Fingers
2022  The Cave of Adullam
2025  Sneaks

Writer:
1997  Hoodlum
1997  Miss Evers' Boys
1998  Always Outnumbered
2000  Once in the Life
2006  Akeelah and the Bee
2006  Five Fingers
2022  The Cave of Adullam
2025  Sneaks

Executive Producer:
2014  black-ish
2017  Year Million
2018  grown-ish
2019  mixed-ish
2023  Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

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