Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He 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 adaption of the Shakespeare play. Fishburne has won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Drama Series Guest Actor for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne’s first marriage was to actress to Hajna O. Moss. They had two children together: a son, Langston and a daughter, Montana. Fishburne is now married to actress Gina Torres. They live in Hollywood with their daughter Delilah.
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- Born:
- Jul 30, 1961 In Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 134
- First Appeared:
- In the movie If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band 1972-12-19
- Latest Project:
- Movie Thunderbolts* 2025-04-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Thunderbolts* | Dr. Bill Foster | 2025-04-30 |
| Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-18 |
| Series | Clipped | Doc Rivers | 2024-06-04 |
| Movie | Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-30 |
| Movie | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 2024-09-25 |
| Movie | Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 |
| Movie | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
| Movie | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
| Series | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 |
| Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
| Movie | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
| Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
| Series | #FreeRayshawn | Steven Poincy | 2020-04-13 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
| Series | History's Greatest Mysteries | Self - Host | 2020-11-14 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
| Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
| Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
| Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | 2007-01-16 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
| Movie | Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
| Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
| Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
| Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
| Movie | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
| Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
| Movie | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
| Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
| Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
| Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
| Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-05-19 |
| Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
| Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |