Laurence Fishburne

Acting

Born 1961-07-30 Augusta, Georgia, USA 208 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 3 Tony Awards 2 Saturn Awards 1 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator 1 MTV Movie Award for Best Fight 1 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

1994 Best Actor Nominated What's Love Got to Do with It

Primetime Emmy Awards 3 won

2020 Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Won FreeRayshawn
1997 Outstanding Television Movie Won Miss Evers' Boys
1993 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Won TriBeCa

Tony Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

2008 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
1992 Best Featured Actor in a Play Won Two Trains Running
1992 Tony Awards Won

Saturn Awards 1 won

— Saturn Awards Won

Audie Award for Best Male Narrator 1 won

— Best Male Narrator Won

MTV Movie Award for Best Fight 1 won

2000 Best Fight Won The Matrix

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture 1 won

1995 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Won Higher Learning

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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).