
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Astronaut as General William Harris
- 2025 · Wick Is Pain as Self
- 2025 · Sneaks as The Collector (voice)
- 2025 · The Amateur as Henderson
- 2025 · Number One on the Call Sheet as Self
- 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)
- 2023 · Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Backstory Man (voice)
- 2023 · Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Beyonder (voice)
- 2022 · The School for Good and Evil as School Master
- 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 · What If...? as 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 · #FreeRayshawn as Steven Poincy
- 2019 · mixed-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2019 · Imprisoned as Daniel Calvin
- 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 · Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Bill Foster
- 2018 · grown-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2017 · Last Flag Flying as Reverend Richard Mueller
- 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 as Bowery King
- 2016 · Passengers as Gus Mancuso
- 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
- 2014 · Rudderless as Del
- 2014 · black-ish as Pops Johnson
- 2014 · The Signal as Dr. Wallace Damon
- 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
- 2011 · Have a Little Faith as Henry Covington
- 2011 · A Man's Story as Self
- 2011 · Contagion as Ellis Cheever
- 2010 · Top Gear as
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Predators as Noland
- 2010 · Rappin' With The Rickster as Self
- 2009 · Armored as Baines
- 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)
- 2006 · America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Bobby as Edward Robinson
- 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 Self
- 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 · The Soul of a Man as Self - Narrator
- 2003 · The Matrix Reloaded as Morpheus
- 2003 · Biker Boyz as Smoke
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · CSI: Miami as
- 2001 · The Matrix Revisited as Self - Morpheus
- 2001 · Osmosis Jones as Thrax (voice)
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Raymond Langston
- 1999 · The Matrix as Morpheus
- 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
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Fled as Piper
- 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
- 1993 · Searching for Bobby Fischer as Vinnie
- 1993 · What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
- 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 Furious Styles
- 1991 · Class Action as Nick Holbrook
- 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 Prison Guard Keller
- 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 · Willie & Phil as High School Student
- 1979 · Trapper John, M.D. as
- 1979 · Apocalypse Now as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- 1975 · Cornbread, Earl and Me as Wilford Robinson
- 1972 · M*A*S*H as Corporal Dorsey
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- Future · Crimson Blues as Mills
- 2025 · Megadoc as Self
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · Is That Black Enough for You?!? as Self
- 2022 · black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special as Self
- 2020 · Ricky Powell: The Individualist as Self
- 2020 · Our Lady of 121st Street as Rooftop
- 2019 · Running with the Devil as The Man
- 2018 · Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' as Self
- 2017 · Year Million as Narrator
- 2017 · Madiba as Nelson Mandela
- 2016 · The Snowy Day as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand as Self
- 2012 · Slavery by Another Name as Narrator
- 2011 · The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' as Self
- 2011 · Thurgood as Thurgood Marshall
- 2010 · Predators: Moments of Extraction as Noland (voice)
- 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
- 2007 · King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self
- 2006 · Five Fingers as Ahmat
- 2004 · Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix as Morpheus
- 2004 · Mystic River: Beneath the Surface as Self
- 2003 · Mystic River: From Page to Screen as Self
- 2003 · Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend as Self
- 2003 · Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty as Self
- 2003 · MTV Reloaded as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2003 · Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' as Self
- 2000 · Once in the Life as 20 / 20 Mike
- 2000 · Welcome to Hollywood as Laurence Fishburne
- 1995 · Othello as Othello
- Future · The Blacksmith as
- 2003 · A History of Sex as Self
- 2001 · Spooge as Self
- 2000 · Sex and the Matrix as Morpheus (archive footage)
- 2000 · Michael Jordan to the Max as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Making 'The Matrix' as Self
- 1997 · Miss Evers' Boys as Caleb Humphries
- 1995 · MADtv as Self
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · TriBeCa as
- 1991 · The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Self
- 1990 · Decoration Day as Michael Waring, DOD Man
- 1980 · A Rumor of War as Lightbulb
- Future · Blacksmith as Mather
- 1980 · The Six O'Clock Follies as Robby Robinson
- 1979 · Fast Break as Street Kid
- 1972 · If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band as Fish
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Michael Waring
- Future · The Little Bedroom as