Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
136
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 30, 1961 ( 63 years old )
Place of Birth
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
Larry Fishburne
لورنس فيشبورن
로런스 피시번
ローレンス・フィッシュバーン
Лоренс Фишберн
勞倫斯·費許朋
Laurence John Fishburne
Λώρενς Τζον Φίσμπερν
Λώρενς Φίσμπερν
劳伦斯·菲什伯恩
ローレンス・ジョン・フィッシュバーン
Лоуренс Фішборн
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
Apocalypse Now
1979-08-15Rumble Fish
1983-10-09Mystic River
2003-10-07The Color Purple
1985-12-18Mission: Impossible III
2006-04-25TMNT
2007-03-23The Matrix
1999-03-31The Matrix Reloaded
2003-05-15The Matrix Revolutions
2003-11-05Boyz n the Hood
1991-07-12