Laurence Fishburne

Known For: Acting
Born: July 30, 1961
Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA

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). Fi…

Filmography

The Exorcist: Martyrs

The Exorcist: Martyrs

2027

Gatto

2027 · Rocco (voice)

The Astronaut

2025 · General William Harris, Executive Producer

Megadoc

2025 · Self

Wick Is Pain

2025 · Self

Sneaks

2025 · The Collector (voice), Producer

The Amateur

2025 · Henderson

Number One on the Call Sheet

2025 · Self

Cellar Door

2024 · Emmett

Megalopolis

2024 · Fundi Romaine

Transformers One

2024 · Alpha Trion (voice)

Slingshot

2024 · Captain Franks

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab

2024 · Creator

Clipped

2024 · Doc Rivers

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023 · Bowery King

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

2023 · Foster (voice), The Beyonder (voice), Backstory Man (voice), Executive Producer

Bonnie

2022 · Self

The School for Good and Evil

2022 · School Master

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

2022 · Self

The Cave of Adullam

2022 · Producer, Executive Producer

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

2022 · Self

All the Old Knives

2022 · Vick Wallinger

Death to 2021

2021 · Narrator (voice)

The Matrix Resurrections

2021 · Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)

MacGruber

2021 · General Barrett Fasoose

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

2021 · Self

What If...?

2021 · Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)

The Ice Road

2021 · Goldenrod

Under the Stadium Lights

2021 · Harold Christian

Death to 2020

2020 · Narrator (voice)

History's Greatest Mysteries

2020 · Self - Host

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

2020 · Self

Our Lady of 121st Street

2020 · Rooftop

#FreeRayshawn

2020 · Steven Poincy

The Witcher

2019 · Regis

mixed-ish

2019 · Pops Johnson, Executive Producer

Imprisoned

2019 · Daniel Calvin

Running with the Devil

2019 · The Man

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

2019 · Paul Jellinek

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

2019 · Bowery King

The Mule

2018 · Special Agent in Charge

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

2018 · Self

Ant-Man and the Wasp

2018 · Dr. Bill Foster

grown-ish

2018 · Pops Johnson, Executive Producer

Last Flag Flying

2017 · Reverend Richard Mueller

Year Million

2017 · Narrator, Executive Producer

John Wick: Chapter 2

2017 · Bowery King

Madiba

2017 · Nelson Mandela

Passengers

2016 · Gus Mancuso

The Snowy Day

2016 · Narrator (voice)

Roots

2016 · Alex Haley

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

2016 · Perry White

Standoff

2016 · Sade

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

2015 · Self

Jay Leno's Garage

2015 · Self

The Muppets

2015 · Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Self - Guest

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

2015 · Self

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

2015 · Self

Rudderless

2014 · Del

black-ish

2014 · Pops Johnson, Executive Producer

The Signal

2014 · Dr. Wallace Damon

Ride Along

2014 · Omar

Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel

2013

Khumba

2013 · Seko (voice)

Man of Steel

2013 · Perry White

The Colony

2013 · Briggs

The Frame

2013 · Perry White

Hannibal

2013 · Jack Crawford

Slavery by Another Name

2012 · Narrator

Have a Little Faith

2011 · Henry Covington

A Man's Story

2011 · Self

Contagion

2011 · Ellis Cheever

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

2011 · Self

Thurgood

2011 · Thurgood Marshall

Top Gear

2010

Conan

2010 · Self

Predators: Moments of Extraction

2010 · Noland (voice), Thanks

The Talk

2010 · Self

Predators

2010 · Noland

Rappin' With The Rickster

2010 · Self

Predators: The Chosen

2010

Armored

2009 · Baines

The Black List: Volume Two

2009 · Self

Days of Wrath

2008 · Mr. Stafford

Tortured

2008 · Archie Green

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

2008 · Self

21

2008 · Cole Williams

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

2007 · Tad Gruzsa

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

2007 · Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2007 · Narrator

TMNT

2007 · Narrator (voice)

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

2007 · Narrator

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

2007 · Self

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

2006 · Narrator (voice)

Bobby

2006 · Edward Robinson

Five Fingers

2006 · Ahmat, Producer

Akeelah and the Bee

2006 · Dr. Larabee, Producer

Mission: Impossible III

2006 · Theodore Brassel

The Making of 'Event Horizon'

2006 · Self

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2005 · Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

2005 · Self (archive footage)

Ashes and Snow

2005 · Narrator (voice)

Assault on Precinct 13

2005 · Marion Bishop

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005 · Self

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

2004 · Self

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

2004 · Self

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

2004 · Self

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix

2004 · Morpheus

CSI: NY

2004 · Ray Langston

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

2004 · Self

The Matrix Recalibrated

2004 · Self

The Matrix Revolutions

2003 · Morpheus

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

2003 · Self

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

2003 · Self

Mystic River

2003 · Whitey Powers

The Blues

2003 · Self - Narrator

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

2003 · Self

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

2003 · Self

The Soul of a Man

2003 · Self - Narrator

The Matrix Reloaded

2003 · Morpheus

MTV Reloaded

2003 · Morpheus (archive footage)

Biker Boyz

2003 · Smoke

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'

2003 · Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003 · Self

A History of Sex

2003 · Self

CSI: Miami

2002 · CSI Dr. Ray Langston

Undercover Brother

2002 · Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited)

The Matrix Revisited

2001 · Self - Morpheus

Spooge

2001 · Self

Osmosis Jones

2001 · Thrax (voice)

Once in the Life

2000 · 20 / 20 Mike, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer, Theatre Play

Welcome to Hollywood

2000 · Laurence Fishburne

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000 · Raymond Langston

Sex and the Matrix

2000 · Morpheus (archive footage)

Michael Jordan to the Max

2000 · Narrator (voice)

Making "The Matrix"

1999 · Self

The Matrix

1999 · Morpheus

The Magic Hour

1998 · Self

Always Outnumbered

1998 · Socrates Fortlow, Executive Producer

Black Hollywood

Black Hollywood

1997 · Self

Hoodlum

1997 · Bumpy Johnson, Executive Producer

Event Horizon

1997 · Miller

The View

1997 · Self

Miss Evers' Boys

1997 · Caleb Humphries, Executive Producer

The Daily Show

1996 · Self

Fled

1996 · Piper

Othello

1995 · Othello

MADtv

1995 · Self

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995 · Hannibal Lee

Just Cause

1995 · Sheriff Tanny Brown

Bad Company

1995 · Nelson Crowe

Higher Learning

1995 · Professor Maurice Phipps

Inside the Actors Studio

1994 · Self

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993 · Vinnie

What's Love Got to Do with It

1993 · Ike Turner

TriBeCa

1993

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

Deep Cover

1992 · Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991 · Self

Boyz n the Hood

1991 · Furious Styles

Class Action

1991 · Nick Holbrook

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

1991 · Self

Decoration Day

1990 · Michael Waring, DOD Man

Cadence

1990 · Roosevelt Stokes

The Civil War

1990 · Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)

King of New York

1990 · Jimmy Jump

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

1988 · Cowboy Curtis

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

Red Heat

1988 · Lt. Stobbs

School Daze

1988 · Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap

Cherry 2000

1987 · Glu Glu Lawyer

Gardens of Stone

1987 · Sgt. Flanagan

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987 · Max

Pee-wee's Playhouse

1986 · Cowboy Curtis

Band of the Hand

1986 · Cream

Quicksilver

1986 · Voodoo

The Color Purple

1985 · Swain

Spenser: For Hire

1985

The Equalizer

1985 · Casey Taylor

The Cotton Club

1984 · Bumpy Rhodes

Miami Vice

1984 · Prison Guard Keller

Rumble Fish

1983 · Midget

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983 · Jimbo Collins

I Take These Men

1983 · Hank Johnson

Death Wish II

1982 · Cutter

American Playhouse

1982 · Jimbo Collins

Hill Street Blues

1981

A Rumor of War

1980 · Lightbulb

Willie & Phil

1980 · High School Student

The Six O'Clock Follies

The Six O'Clock Follies

1980 · Robby Robinson

Trapper John, M.D.

1979

Apocalypse Now

1979 · Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

Fast Break

1979 · Street Kid

Cornbread, Earl and Me

1975 · Wilford Robinson

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

1972 · Fish

M*A*S*H

1972 · Corporal Dorsey

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Presenter

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Michael Waring

The Little Bedroom

The Little Bedroom

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Blacksmith

— · Mather

The Blacksmith

— · Mather

Crimson Blues

— · Mills

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

— · Self

Inheritance

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Interference

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The Rule of Nines

The Rule of Nines

— · Director

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