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:
- 132
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Black Water Transit
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sneaks 2025-04-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-24 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2025 |
| 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 | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
| Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
| Series | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 |
| Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
| Movie | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
| Series | History's Greatest Mysteries | Self - Host | 2020-11-14 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
| Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
| Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| 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 | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
| 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 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| 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: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| 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 | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
| Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2000-06-03 |
| Movie | Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
| 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 | Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
| Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
| 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 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
| Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
| 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 | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| 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 | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
| 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 |
| Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1986-09-13 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
| Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
| 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 |