Laurence Fishburne
Birthday: 1961-07-30
Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 367
Drafted By: Hangin with Mr. Cooper
Owned By: Hangin with Mr. Cooper
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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).
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1994 | 33 | What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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The Astronaut | General William Harris | |
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The Little Bedroom | ||
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Blacksmith | ||
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The Blacksmith | ||
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Crimson Blues | Mills | |
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2025-04-30 | Thunderbolts* | Dr. Bill Foster |
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2025-04-18 | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) |
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2025-04-09 | The Amateur | Henderson |
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2024-10-31 | Cellar Door | Emmett |
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2024-09-25 | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine |
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2024-09-11 | Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) |
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2024-08-30 | Slingshot | Captain Franks |
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2023-03-22 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King |
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2022-10-19 | The School for Good and Evil | School Master |
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2022-04-08 | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger |
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2021-06-24 | The Ice Road | Goldenrod |
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2021-06-04 | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian |
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2020-05-23 | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop |
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2019-09-12 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin |
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2019-08-29 | Running with the Devil | The Man |
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2019-08-16 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek |
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2019-05-15 | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King |
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2018-12-14 | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge |
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2018-07-04 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster |
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2017-11-03 | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller |
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2017-02-08 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King |
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2016-12-21 | Passengers | Gus Mancuso |
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2016-03-23 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White |
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2016-02-26 | Standoff | Sade |
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2015-02-20 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | |
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2014-10-17 | Rudderless | Del |
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2014-03-15 | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon |
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2014-01-07 | Ride Along | Omar |
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2013-07-18 | Khumba | Seko (voice) |
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2013-06-12 | Man of Steel | Perry White |
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2013-04-12 | The Colony | Briggs |
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2011-11-27 | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington |
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2011-09-08 | Contagion | Ellis Cheever |
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2011-02-24 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall |
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2010-10-19 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) |
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2010-10-19 | Predators: The Chosen | Noland |
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2010-07-03 | Predators | Noland |
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2009-12-04 | Armored | Baines |
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2009-05-13 | Black Water Transit | Jack |
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2008-09-17 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford |
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2008-09-10 | Tortured | Archie Green |
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2008-03-27 | 21 | Cole Williams |
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2007-07-23 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa |
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2007-06-13 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) |
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2006-09-05 | Bobby | Edward Robinson |
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2006-05-01 | Five Fingers | Ahmat |
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2006-04-28 | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee |
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2006-04-25 | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel |
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2005-09-14 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) |
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2005-01-19 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop |
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2003-11-05 | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus |
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2003-10-07 | Mystic River | Whitey Powers |
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2003-05-15 | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus |
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2003-01-31 | Biker Boyz | Smoke |
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2001-08-10 | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) |
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2000-10-27 | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike |
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1999-03-31 | The Matrix | Morpheus |
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1998-10-01 | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne |
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1998-03-21 | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow |
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1997-08-27 | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson |
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1997-08-15 | Event Horizon | Miller |
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1997-02-22 | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries |
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1996-07-19 | Fled | Piper |
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1995-12-15 | Othello | Othello |
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1995-08-25 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee |
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1995-02-17 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown |
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1995-01-20 | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe |
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1995-01-11 | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps |
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1993-08-13 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie |
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1993-06-09 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner |
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1992-04-15 | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull |
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1991-07-12 | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles |
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1991-03-15 | Class Action | Nick Holbrook |
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1990-12-02 | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man |
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1990-11-16 | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes |
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1990-07-18 | King of New York | Jimmy Jump |
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1988-12-21 | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis |
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1988-06-17 | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs |
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1988-02-12 | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap |
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1987-11-10 | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer |
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1987-05-05 | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan |
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1987-02-27 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max |
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1986-04-11 | Band of the Hand | Cream |
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1986-02-14 | Quicksilver | Voodoo |
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1985-12-18 | The Color Purple | Swain |
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1984-12-14 | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes |
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1983-10-09 | Rumble Fish | Midget |
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1983-03-22 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins |
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1983-01-05 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson |
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1982-02-20 | Death Wish II | Cutter |
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1980-08-15 | Willie and Phil | High School Student |
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1979-08-15 | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller |
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1979-03-02 | Fast Break | Street Kid |
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1975-05-21 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson |
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1972-12-19 | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish |