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:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Astronaut
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sneaks 2025-04-18
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-04-18 |
| Movie | The Astronaut | General William Harris | 2025 |
| Movie | The Amateur | Henderson | 2025-04-09 |
| 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 | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
| Movie | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
| Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
| Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
| Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
| Series | #FreeRayshawn | Steven Poincy | 2020-04-13 |
| Movie | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
| Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
| 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 |
| Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
| Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 2015-12-08 |
| Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
| Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
| Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
| Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
| Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
| Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
| Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
| Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
| Movie | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 |
| Movie | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
| 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 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
| Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
| 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 | 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 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
| Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
| 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 Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
| Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
| Movie | A History of Sex | Self | 2003-01-14 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
| Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
| Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
| Movie | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-10-07 |
| Movie | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
| 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 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
| 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 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
| Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
| 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 |