Laurence Fishburne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-07-30 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Augusta, Georgia, USA

Laurence Fishburne

Biography

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) 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 been hailed for his forceful, militant, and authoritative characters in his films. He is known for playing 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 Go...

Acting

1979

Apocalypse Now

as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

1983

Rumble Fish

as Midget

2003

Mystic River

as Whitey Powers

1985

2006

Mission: Impossible III

as Theodore Brassel

2007

TMNT

as Narrator (voice)

2003

1999

The Matrix

as Morpheus

2003

1991

Boyz n the Hood

as Furious Styles

2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)

2006

Bobby

as Edward Robinson

2009

Armored

as Baines

1992

Deep Cover

as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull

1986

Quicksilver

as Voodoo

2022

Bonnie

as Self

2025

Sneaks

as The Collector (voice)

1997

Hoodlum

as Bumpy Johnson

2025

The Astronaut

as General William Harris

2006

Five Fingers

as Ahmat

2008

21

as Cole Williams

1995

The Tuskegee Airmen

as Hannibal Lee

1997

Event Horizon

as Miller

1997

2005

Assault on Precinct 13

as Marion Bishop

2003

Biker Boyz

as Smoke

1995

Just Cause

as Sheriff Tanny Brown

2001

Osmosis Jones

as Thrax (voice)

1990

King of New York

as Jimmy Jump

1998

Always Outnumbered

as Socrates Fortlow

1988

Red Heat

as Lt. Stobbs

1986

2008

Tortured

as Archie Green

2010

Predators

as Noland

1990

Cadence

as Roosevelt Stokes

1987

Gardens of Stone

as Sgt. Flanagan

1995

Bad Company

as Nelson Crowe

2006

Akeelah and the Bee

as Dr. Larabee

2001

The Matrix Revisited

as Self - Morpheus

1988

School Daze

as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap

1982

Death Wish II

as Cutter

1975

Cornbread, Earl and Me

as Wilford Robinson

1987

Cherry 2000

as Glu Glu Lawyer

2024

Slingshot

as Captain Franks

2000

Once in the Life

as 20 / 20 Mike

1995

Higher Learning

as Professor Maurice Phipps

1995

Othello

as Othello

2011

Contagion

as Ellis Cheever

2024

Transformers One

as Alpha Trion (voice)

2021

Death to 2021

as Narrator (voice)

1996

Fled

as Piper

2013

Man of Steel

as Perry White

2025

The Amateur

as Henderson

2011

Thurgood

as Thurgood Marshall

2023

John Wick: Chapter 4

as Bowery King

2011

Have a Little Faith

as Henry Covington

1990

Decoration Day

as Michael Waring, DOD Man

2003

The Soul of a Man

as Self - Narrator

1997

Miss Evers' Boys

as Caleb Humphries

2003

2014

Ride Along

as Omar

2013

Khumba

as Seko (voice)

2013

The Colony

as Briggs

2024

Megalopolis

as Fundi Romaine

2014

2014

The Signal

as Dr. Wallace Damon

1984

The Cotton Club

as Bumpy Rhodes

2016

Standoff

as Sade

1991

Class Action

as Nick Holbrook

2008

Days of Wrath

as Mr. Stafford

2001

Spooge

as Self

2017

John Wick: Chapter 2

as Bowery King

2000

Michael Jordan to the Max

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Passengers

as Gus Mancuso

2000

Sex and the Matrix

as Morpheus (archive footage)

-

Blacksmith

as Mather

2017

Last Flag Flying

as Reverend Richard Mueller

2016

The Snowy Day

as Narrator (voice)

2019

2000

Welcome to Hollywood

as Laurence Fishburne

2018

Ant-Man and the Wasp

as Dr. Bill Foster

2011

1980

Willie & Phil

as High School Student

2005

Ashes and Snow

as Narrator (voice)

2018

The Mule

as Special Agent in Charge

2019

Imprisoned

as Daniel Calvin

2005

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)

2003

MTV Reloaded

as Morpheus (archive footage)

1979

Fast Break

as Street Kid

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2021

The Ice Road

as Goldenrod

2022

All the Old Knives

as Vick Wallinger

2020

Death to 2020

as Narrator (voice)

2022

-

2021

Under the Stadium Lights

as Harold Christian

2024

Cellar Door

as Emmett

1983

I Take These Men

as Hank Johnson

2025

Production

2006

Five Fingers

as Producer

1998

Always Outnumbered

as Executive Producer

2000

Once in the Life

as Director

2000

Once in the Life

as Producer

2000

Once in the Life

as Screenplay

2000

2022

2022

The Cave of Adullam

as Executive Producer

1997

Hoodlum

as Executive Producer

2025

Sneaks

as Producer

1997

Miss Evers' Boys

as Executive Producer

2006

2025

The Astronaut

as Executive Producer

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