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Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are Morpheus in 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 on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films 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) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
September 26th, 2025 | The Astronaut | General William Harris | 6.1 | |
April 17th, 2025 | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 6.1 | |
April 9th, 2025 | The Amateur | Henderson | 6.9 | |
September 25th, 2024 | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | 5.2 | |
September 11th, 2024 | Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | 8 | |
August 30th, 2024 | Slingshot | Captain Franks | 6.1 | |
March 21st, 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 7.7 | |
November 12th, 2022 | Bonnie | Self | 5.3 | |
April 19th, 2022 | black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | 4 | |
December 27th, 2021 | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 6 | |
May 15th, 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 7.4 | |
March 23rd, 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 6 | |
January 7th, 2014 | Ride Along | Omar | 6.3 | |
July 18th, 2013 | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 6 | |
June 12th, 2013 | Man of Steel | Perry White | 6.6 | |
April 12th, 2013 | The Colony | Briggs | 5.5 | |
November 27th, 2011 | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 6.4 | |
September 8th, 2011 | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 6.6 | |
February 24th, 2011 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 6.5 | |
July 7th, 2010 | Predators | Noland | 6.3 | |
December 4th, 2009 | Armored | Baines | 5.8 | |
September 10th, 2008 | Tortured | Archie Green | 5.4 | |
March 27th, 2008 | 21 | Cole Williams | 6.7 | |
July 23rd, 2007 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 6.2 | |
June 13th, 2007 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 5.6 | |
March 23rd, 2007 | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 6.2 | |
January 16th, 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | 8.5 | |
September 5th, 2006 | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 6.4 | |
May 1st, 2006 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 6 | |
April 28th, 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 7 | |
April 25th, 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 6.8 | |
January 19th, 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 6.2 | |
April 6th, 2004 | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 6.8 | |
November 5th, 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 6.8 | |
October 8th, 2003 | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | 7.7 | |
May 16th, 2003 | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 6.6 | |
May 15th, 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 7.1 | |
January 31st, 2003 | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 6.3 | |
January 30th, 2003 | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | TBD | |
January 14th, 2003 | A History of Sex | Self | 5.5 | |
November 19th, 2001 | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 6.9 | |
August 10th, 2001 | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 6.5 | |
October 27th, 2000 | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 4.8 | |
March 31st, 1999 | The Matrix | Morpheus | 8.2 | |
March 21st, 1998 | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 6.4 | |
December 29th, 1997 | Black Hollywood | Self | 7 | |
August 27th, 1997 | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 6.4 | |
August 15th, 1997 | Event Horizon | Miller | 6.6 | |
February 22nd, 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 6.5 | |
July 19th, 1996 | Fled | Piper | 5.6 | |
December 15th, 1995 | Othello | Othello | 6.4 | |
August 25th, 1995 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 7.1 | |
February 17th, 1995 | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 6.3 | |
January 20th, 1995 | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 4.9 | |
January 11th, 1995 | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 6.3 | |
August 13th, 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 7.1 | |
June 9th, 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 7.1 | |
April 15th, 1992 | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 6.8 | |
November 27th, 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 7.9 | |
July 12th, 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | 7.6 | |
December 2nd, 1990 | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 6.9 | |
November 16th, 1990 | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 6.7 | |
July 18th, 1990 | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 6.8 | |
June 17th, 1988 | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 6.2 | |
February 12th, 1988 | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 5.7 | |
November 10th, 1987 | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 6 | |
May 5th, 1987 | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 6.2 | |
February 27th, 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 6.7 | |
April 11th, 1986 | Band of the Hand | Cream | 6.2 | |
February 14th, 1986 | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 5.6 | |
December 18th, 1985 | The Color Purple | Swain | 7.7 | |
October 9th, 1983 | Rumble Fish | Midget | 7 | |
February 20th, 1982 | Death Wish II | Cutter | 6.3 | |
May 19th, 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 8.3 | |
May 21st, 1975 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 6.7 | |
TBD | The Little Bedroom | TBD | TBD | |
October 9th, 2022 | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 6.2 | |
September 12th, 2019 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 4.6 | |
August 29th, 2019 | Running with the Devil | The Man | 5.4 | |
August 16th, 2019 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 6.6 | |
December 14th, 2018 | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 6.9 | |
July 4th, 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 6.9 | |
November 3rd, 2017 | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 6.8 | |
February 8th, 2017 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 7.3 | |
December 21st, 2016 | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 7 | |
November 25th, 2016 | The Snowy Day | Narrator (voice) | 7 | |
February 26th, 2016 | Standoff | Sade | 6.1 | |
December 8th, 2015 | Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | 10 | |
February 20th, 2015 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | TBD | |
October 17th, 2014 | Rudderless | Del | 7.2 | |
March 15th, 2014 | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 6 | |
October 8th, 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | 6.9 | |
July 19th, 2011 | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2 | |
January 1st, 2010 | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2 | |
February 26th, 2009 | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 6 | |
September 17th, 2008 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 5.5 | |
April 18th, 2006 | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 7.4 | |
September 14th, 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
March 5th, 2005 | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 7.2 | |
December 7th, 2004 | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 7.1 | |
September 2nd, 2003 | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 6 | |
May 13th, 2003 | MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | 7.3 | |
November 10th, 2001 | Spooge | Self | TBD | |
October 27th, 2000 | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 4.1 | |
June 3rd, 2000 | Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
May 5th, 2000 | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 | |
March 15th, 1991 | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1991 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 4.3 | |
December 21st, 1988 | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 7.2 | |
December 14th, 1984 | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 6.5 | |
March 22nd, 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 7 | |
TBD | Blacksmith | Mather | TBD | |
March 12th, 2027 | Untitled The Exorcist Film | TBD | TBD | |
September 19th, 2025 | Megadoc | Self | 6.7 | |
May 8th, 2025 | Wick Is Pain | Self | 7.4 | |
October 31st, 2024 | Cellar Door | Emmett | 5.8 | |
October 19th, 2022 | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 7 | |
April 8th, 2022 | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 6 | |
December 16th, 2021 | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
June 24th, 2021 | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | 6.8 | |
June 4th, 2021 | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 6 | |
December 27th, 2020 | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 6.5 | |
May 30th, 2020 | Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | 4.8 | |
May 23rd, 2020 | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | TBD | |
August 18th, 2015 | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 6 | |
November 12th, 2013 | Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel | TBD | TBD | |
February 11th, 2012 | Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | 7.2 | |
October 19th, 2010 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (voice) | 4.2 | |
January 1st, 2010 | Predators: The Chosen | TBD | 3 | |
April 23rd, 2007 | America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Narrator | TBD | |
January 19th, 2007 | America's Game: 1986 New York Giants | Narrator | TBD | |
September 13th, 2005 | On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
December 7th, 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 6.7 | |
December 7th, 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Self | 7 | |
December 7th, 2004 | Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Morpheus | 7.3 | |
June 8th, 2004 | Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | 9.5 | |
October 31st, 2003 | Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 10 | |
October 14th, 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 6.1 | |
June 24th, 2003 | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | 8.3 | |
September 21st, 1999 | Making "The Matrix" | Self | 7.3 | |
August 15th, 1980 | Willie & Phil | High School Student | 4.6 | |
March 2nd, 1979 | Fast Break | Street Kid | 5.3 | |
December 19th, 1972 | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 5 | |
TBD | The Blacksmith | Mather | TBD | |
TBD | Crimson Blues | Mills | TBD | |
May 31st, 2002 | Undercover Brother | Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited) | 5.9 | |
January 5th, 1983 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 5 | |
TBD | Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn | Self | TBD | |
TBD | Inheritance | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | Interference | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | "I'm Gonna Kick Your C*nt In!" | TBD | TBD |