Laurence Fishburne
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).
Acted in
Thunderbolts*
2025
as Dr. Bill Foster
Sneaks
2025
as The Collector (voice)
The Amateur
2025
as Henderson
Cellar Door
2024
as Emmett
Megalopolis
2024
as Fundi Romaine
Transformers One
2024
as Alpha Trion (voice)
Slingshot
2024
as Captain Franks
Clipped
2024
as Doc Rivers
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
as Bowery King
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
as Foster (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
as The Beyonder (voice)
Bonnie
2022
as Self
The School for Good and Evil
2022
as School Master
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
as Self
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022
as Self
All the Old Knives
2022
as Vick Wallinger
Death to 2021
2021
as Narrator (voice)
MacGruber
2021
as General Barrett Fasoose
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
as Self
What If...?
2021
as Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath (voice)
The Ice Road
2021
as Goldenrod
Under the Stadium Lights
2021
as Harold Christian
Death to 2020
2020
as Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
as Self - Host
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020
as Rooftop
#FreeRayshawn
2020
as Steven Poincy
mixed-ish
2019
as Pops Johnson
Imprisoned
2019
as Daniel Calvin
Running with the Devil
2019
as The Man
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
as Paul Jellinek
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
as Bowery King
The Mule
2018
as Special Agent in Charge
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018
as Self
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
as Dr. Bill Foster
grown-ish
2018
as Pops Johnson
Last Flag Flying
2017
as Reverend Richard Mueller
Year Million
2017
as Narrator
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
as Bowery King
Madiba
2017
as Nelson Mandela
Passengers
2016
as Gus Mancuso
The Snowy Day
2016
as Narrator
Roots
2016
as Alex Haley
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Perry White
Standoff
2016
as Sade
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
as Self
The Muppets
2015
as Self
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
as Self
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Rudderless
2014
as Del
black-ish
2014
as Pops Johnson
The Signal
2014
as Dr. Wallace Damon
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Ride Along
2014
as Omar
Khumba
2013
as Seko (voice)
Man of Steel
2013
as Perry White
The Colony
2013
as Briggs
Hannibal
2013
as Jack Crawford
Slavery by Another Name
2012
as Narrator
Have a Little Faith
2011
as Henry Covington
A Man's Story
2011
as Self
Contagion
2011
as Ellis Cheever
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
as Self
Thurgood
2011
as Thurgood Marshall
Top Gear
2010
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
as Noland (Voice)
Predators: The Chosen
2010
as Noland
Predators
2010
as Noland
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
as Self
Armored
2009
as Baines
Black Water Transit
2009
as Jack
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
as Self
Days of Wrath
2008
as Mr. Stafford
Tortured
2008
as Archie Green
21
2008
as Cole Williams
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
as Tad Gruzsa
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice)
TMNT
2007
as Narrator (voice)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
as Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Bobby
2006
as Edward Robinson
Five Fingers
2006
as Ahmat
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
as Dr. Larabee
Mission: Impossible III
2006
as Theodore Brassel
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
as Self
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005
as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
Ashes and Snow
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
as Marion Bishop
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004
as Self
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004
as Self
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
as Himself
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
as Self
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
as Morpheus
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
as Self
Mystic River
2003
as Whitey Powers
The Blues
2003
as Self - Narrator
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
as Self
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
as Self
The Soul of a Man
2003
as Self - Narrator
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
as Morpheus
MTV Reloaded
2003
as Morpheus (archive footage)
Biker Boyz
2003
as Smoke
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
2003
as Self
A History of Sex
2003
as Self
CSI: Miami
2002
The Matrix Revisited
2001
as Self - Morpheus
Spooge
2001
as Self
Osmosis Jones
2001
as Thrax (voice)
Once in the Life
2000
as 20 / 20 Mike
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Raymond Langston
Sex and the Matrix
2000
as Morpheus (archive footage)
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Making 'The Matrix'
1999
as Self
The Matrix
1999
as Morpheus
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
as Laurence Fishburne
Always Outnumbered
1998
as Socrates Fortlow
Black Hollywood
1997
as Self
Hoodlum
1997
as Bumpy Johnson
Event Horizon
1997
as Miller
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
as Caleb Humphries
Fled
1996
as Piper
Othello
1995
as Othello
MADtv
1995
as Self
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Hannibal Lee
Just Cause
1995
as Sheriff Tanny Brown
Bad Company
1995
as Nelson Crowe
Higher Learning
1995
as Professor Maurice Phipps
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Vinnie
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993
as Ike Turner
TriBeCa
1993
Deep Cover
1992
as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
Boyz n the Hood
1991
as Jason 'Furious' Styles
Class Action
1991
as Nick Holbrook
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
as Self
Decoration Day
1990
as Michael Waring, DOD Man
Cadence
1990
as Roosevelt Stokes
The Civil War
1990
as Various
King of New York
1990
as Jimmy Jump
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988
as Cowboy Curtis
Red Heat
1988
as Lt. Stobbs
School Daze
1988
as Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap
Cherry 2000
1987
as Glu Glu Lawyer
Gardens of Stone
1987
as Sgt. Flanagan
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
as Max
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986
as Cowboy Curtis
Band of the Hand
1986
as Cream
Quicksilver
1986
as Voodoo
The Color Purple
1985
as Swain
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985
as Casey Taylor
The Cotton Club
1984
as Bumpy Rhodes
Miami Vice
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
as Midget
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
as Jimbo Collins
I Take These Men
1983
as Hank Johnson
Death Wish II
1982
as Cutter
Hill Street Blues
1981
A Rumor of War
1980
as Lightbulb
Willie and Phil
1980
as High School Student
The Six O'Clock Follies
1980
as Robby Robinson
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Fast Break
1979
as Street Kid
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975
as Wilford Robinson
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972
as Fish
M*A*S*H
1972
as Corporal Dorsey
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Michael Waring
The Astronaut
as General William Harris
The Little Bedroom
Blacksmith
The Blacksmith
Crimson Blues
as Mills