Laurence Fishburne
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Thunderbolts* as Dr. Bill Foster
- 2025 · Sneaks as The Collector (voice)
- 2025 · The Amateur as Henderson
- 2024 · Cellar Door as Emmett
- 2024 · Megalopolis as Fundi Romaine
- 2024 · Transformers One as Alpha Trion (voice)
- 2024 · Slingshot as Captain Franks
- 2024 · Clipped as Doc Rivers
- 2023 · John Wick: Chapter 4 as Bowery King
- 2023 · Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Foster (voice)
- 2023 · Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as The Beyonder (voice)
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · The School for Good and Evil as School Master
- 2022 · Is That Black Enough for You?!? as Self
- 2022 · black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special as Self
- 2022 · All the Old Knives as Vick Wallinger
- 2021 · Death to 2021 as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · MacGruber as General Barrett Fasoose
- 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- 2021 · What If...? as Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
- 2021 · The Ice Road as Goldenrod
- 2021 · Under the Stadium Lights as Harold Christian
- 2020 · Death to 2020 as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · History's Greatest Mysteries as Self - Host
- 2020 · Our Lady of 121st Street as Rooftop
- 2020 · #FreeRayshawn as Steven Poincy
- 2019 · mixed-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2019 · Imprisoned as Daniel Calvin
- 2019 · Running with the Devil as The Man
- 2019 · Where'd You Go, Bernadette as Paul Jellinek
- 2019 · John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Bowery King
- 2018 · The Mule as Special Agent in Charge
- 2018 · Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' as Self
- 2018 · Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Bill Foster
- 2018 · grown-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2017 · Last Flag Flying as Reverend Richard Mueller
- 2017 · Year Million as Narrator
- 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 as Bowery King
- 2017 · Madiba as Nelson Mandela
- 2016 · Passengers as Gus Mancuso
- 2016 · The Snowy Day as Narrator
- 2016 · Roots as Alex Haley
- 2016 · Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Perry White
- 2016 · Standoff as Sade
- 2015 · Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon as Self
- 2015 · Jay Leno's Garage as Self
- 2015 · The Muppets as Self
- 2015 · Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self
- 2015 · August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand as
- 2014 · Rudderless as Del
- 2014 · black-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2014 · The Signal as Dr. Wallace Damon
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Ride Along as Omar
- 2013 · Khumba as Seko (voice)
- 2013 · Man of Steel as Perry White
- 2013 · The Colony as Briggs
- 2013 · The Frame as Perry White
- 2013 · Hannibal as Jack Crawford
- 2012 · Slavery by Another Name as Narrator
- 2011 · Have a Little Faith as Henry Covington
- 2011 · A Man's Story as Self
- 2011 · Contagion as Ellis Cheever
- 2011 · The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' as Self
- 2011 · Thurgood as Thurgood Marshall
- 2010 · Top Gear as
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Predators: Moments of Extraction as Noland (Voice)
- 2010 · Predators: The Chosen as Noland
- 2010 · Predators as Noland
- 2010 · Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Rappin' With The Rickster as Self
- 2009 · Armored as Baines
- 2009 · Black Water Transit as Jack
- 2009 · The Black List: Volume Two as Self
- 2008 · Days of Wrath as Mr. Stafford
- 2008 · Tortured as Archie Green
- 2008 · Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence as Self
- 2008 · 21 as Cole Williams
- 2007 · The Death and Life of Bobby Z as Tad Gruzsa
- 2007 · Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
- 2007 · TMNT as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self
- 2006 · America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Bobby as Edward Robinson
- 2006 · Five Fingers as Ahmat
- 2006 · Akeelah and the Bee as Dr. Larabee
- 2006 · Mission: Impossible III as Theodore Brassel
- 2006 · The Making of 'Event Horizon' as Self
- 2005 · Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
- 2005 · Ashes and Snow as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Assault on Precinct 13 as Marion Bishop
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The Matrix Reloaded Revisited as Self
- 2004 · The Matrix Revolutions Revisited as Self
- 2004 · The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase as Himself
- 2004 · The Matrix Recalibrated as Self
- 2003 · The Matrix Revolutions as Morpheus
- 2003 · The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load as Self
- 2003 · Mystic River as Whitey Powers
- 2003 · The Blues as Self - Narrator
- 2003 · Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend as Self
- 2003 · Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty as Self
- 2003 · The Soul of a Man as Self - Narrator
- 2003 · The Matrix Reloaded as Morpheus
- 2003 · MTV Reloaded as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2003 · Biker Boyz as Smoke
- 2003 · Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2003 · A History of Sex as Self
- 2002 · CSI: Miami as
- 2001 · The Matrix Revisited as Self - Morpheus
- 2001 · Spooge as Self
- 2001 · Osmosis Jones as Thrax (voice)
- 2000 · Once in the Life as 20 / 20 Mike
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Raymond Langston
- 2000 · Sex and the Matrix as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2000 · Michael Jordan to the Max as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Making 'The Matrix' as Self
- 1999 · The Matrix as Morpheus
- 1998 · Welcome to Hollywood as Laurence Fishburne
- 1998 · The Magic Hour as Self
- 1998 · Always Outnumbered as Socrates Fortlow
- 1997 · Black Hollywood as Self
- 1997 · Hoodlum as Bumpy Johnson
- 1997 · Event Horizon as Miller
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Miss Evers' Boys as Caleb Humphries
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Fled as Piper
- 1995 · Othello as Othello
- 1995 · MADtv as Self
- 1995 · The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
- 1995 · Just Cause as Sheriff Tanny Brown
- 1995 · Bad Company as Nelson Crowe
- 1995 · Higher Learning as Professor Maurice Phipps
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Searching for Bobby Fischer as Vinnie
- 1993 · What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
- 1993 · TriBeCa as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Deep Cover as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
- 1991 · Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
- 1991 · Boyz n the Hood as Jason 'Furious' Styles
- 1991 · Class Action as Nick Holbrook
- 1991 · The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Self
- 1990 · Decoration Day as Michael Waring, DOD Man
- 1990 · Cadence as Roosevelt Stokes
- 1990 · The Civil War as Various
- 1990 · King of New York as Jimmy Jump
- 1988 · Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special as Cowboy Curtis
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · Red Heat as Lt. Stobbs
- 1988 · School Daze as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
- 1987 · Cherry 2000 as Glu Glu Lawyer
- 1987 · Gardens of Stone as Sgt. Flanagan
- 1987 · A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Max
- 1986 · Pee-wee's Playhouse as Cowboy Curtis
- 1986 · Band of the Hand as Cream
- 1986 · Quicksilver as Voodoo
- 1985 · The Color Purple as Swain
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Casey Taylor
- 1984 · The Cotton Club as Bumpy Rhodes
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1983 · Rumble Fish as Midget
- 1983 · For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Jimbo Collins
- 1983 · I Take These Men as Hank Johnson
- 1982 · Death Wish II as Cutter
- 1981 · Hill Street Blues as
- 1980 · A Rumor of War as Lightbulb
- 1980 · Willie and Phil as High School Student
- 1980 · The Six O'Clock Follies as Robby Robinson
- 1979 · Trapper John, M.D. as
- 1979 · Apocalypse Now as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- 1979 · Fast Break as Street Kid
- 1972 · If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band as Fish
- 1972 · M*A*S*H as Corporal Dorsey
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Michael Waring
- Future · The Little Bedroom as
- 1975 · Cornbread, Earl and Me as Wilford Robinson
- Future · The Blacksmith as
- Future · The Astronaut as General William Harris
- Future · Crimson Blues as Mills
- Future · Blacksmith as