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:
- 94
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Cornbread, Earl and Me 1975-05-21
- Latest Project:
- Movie Thunderbolts* 2025-04-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Thunderbolts* | Dr. Bill Foster | 2025-04-30 |
| Movie | Megalopolis | 2024-05-17 | |
| Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2024-10-31 |
| Movie | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
| Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
| Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
| Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
| Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
| Series | Year Million | Narrator | 2017-05-15 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
| Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| 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 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| 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 | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
| Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
| Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
| 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 | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-03-03 |
| Movie | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Himself | 2003-06-24 |
| 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 | 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 | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
| 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 |
| 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 | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
| Movie | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
| 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 | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
| Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
| 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 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
| Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
| Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |