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.
Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2025 |
Movie | The Astronaut | General William Harris | 2025 |
Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2025-02-06 |
Movie | The Amateur | 2025-04-09 | |
Series | Clipped | Doc Rivers | 2024-06-04 |
Movie | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 2024-09-25 |
Movie | Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-30 |
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 | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
Movie | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
Series | #FreeRayshawn | Steven Poincy | 2020-04-13 |
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 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
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 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
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 | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
Movie | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 |
Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
Movie | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
Movie | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 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 Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
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 Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
Movie | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 2003-03-03 |
Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
Movie | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 2003-06-24 |
Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Movie | MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 |
Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
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 | Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
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 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
Movie | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
Movie | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
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 | 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 |
Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
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 |
Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |