
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.
Film | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2022-05-25 |
Film | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-14 |
Film | The Ice Road | 2021-07-01 | |
Film | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
Film | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | 2020-05-23 |
Film | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
Film | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
Film | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
Film | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
Film | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
Serial | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Himself | 2018-10-13 |
Film | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
Film | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
Film | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
Serial | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
Film | Standoff | Sade | 2016-01-04 |
Film | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
Serial | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
Film | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
Film | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
Film | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
Serial | The Muppets | Himself | 2015-09-22 |
Film | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
Film | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
Serial | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
Film | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
Film | And the Oscar Goes To... | 2014-02-01 | |
Film | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
Film | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Film | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
Film | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
Serial | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
Film | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | 2011-02-24 |
Film | The Enduring Significance of Boyz n the Hood | 2011-07-19 | |
Film | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Film | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
Film | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Film | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | 2010-10-19 |
Film | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | 2010-10-19 |
Film | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Film | Rappin' With The Rickster | 2010-01-01 | |
Film | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
Film | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2009-05-13 |
Film | The Black List: Volume Two | Himself | 2009-02-26 |
Film | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
Film | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Film | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
Film | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
Film | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
Film | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
Film | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
Film | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | 2006-04-18 | |
Film | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-05-03 |
Film | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
Film | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
Film | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) | 2005-09-05 |
Film | Ashes and Snow | Narrator | 2005-03-05 |
Film | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
Film | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Morpheus | 2004-12-07 |
Film | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Film | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Film | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Serial | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
Film | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
Film | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-01-01 |
Film | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
Serial | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Film | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
Film | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
Film | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Film | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Himself | 2003-06-24 |
Film | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | 2003-09-02 | |
Film | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
Film | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-03 |
Film | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
Serial | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
Film | The Matrix Revisited | Himself / Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Film | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-07 |
Film | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
Film | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
Serial | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
Film | Making 'The Matrix' | Himself | 1999-09-21 |
Film | Making The Matrix | Himself | 1999-09-01 |
Film | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-30 |
Film | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
Film | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
Film | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
Film | Event Horizon | Captain Miller | 1997-08-15 |
Serial | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
Film | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
Serial | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
Film | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
Film | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
Film | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
Film | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
Film | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
Serial | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
Film | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
Serial | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Film | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
Film | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
Serial | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
Serial | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Film | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
Film | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | 1991-01-01 | |
Film | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
Film | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
Film | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | 1991-09-06 |
Film | Awakenings | Orderly | 1990-12-04 |
Film | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
Film | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Film | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Serial | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Film | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
Film | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
Film | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
Film | Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-25 |
Film | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
Film | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
Film | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
Serial | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Unknown | 1986-09-13 |
Film | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
Film | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
Serial | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
Serial | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown | 1985-09-20 |
Film | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
Film | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
Serial | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
Film | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-20 |
Film | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
Film | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
Film | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
Serial | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
Serial | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
Film | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
Serial | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
Serial | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
Film | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
Film | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
Film | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
Film | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |
Serial | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
Serial | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |