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).
142 movies · 54 shows
The Astronaut
2025·6.1
Megadoc
2025·6.5
Wick Is Pain
2025·7.4
Sneaks
2025·5.9
The Amateur
2025·6.9
Cellar Door
2024·5.8
Megalopolis
2024·5.2
Transformers One
2024·8.0
Slingshot
2024·6.1
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023·7.7
Bonnie
2022·5.3
The School for Good and Evil
2022·7.0
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022·6.2
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022·2.5
All the Old Knives
2022·6.0
Death to 2021
2021·6.0
The Matrix Resurrections
2021·6.3
The Ice Road
2021·6.8
Under the Stadium Lights
2021·6.0
Death to 2020
2020·6.5
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020·4.8
Our Lady of 121st Street
2020·0.0
Imprisoned
2019·4.6
Running with the Devil
2019·5.4
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019·6.6
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019·7.4
The Mule
2018·6.9
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018·6.9
Last Flag Flying
2017·6.8
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017·7.3
Passengers
2016·7.0
The Snowy Day
2016·7.0
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016·6.0
Standoff
2016·6.1
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015·10.0
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015·6.0
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015·0.0
Rudderless
2014·7.2
The Signal
2014·6.0
Ride Along
2014·6.3
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013·0.0
Khumba
2013·6.0
Man of Steel
2013·6.7
The Colony
2013·5.5
Slavery by Another Name
2012·7.2
Have a Little Faith
2011·6.6
A Man's Story
2011·6.9
Contagion
2011·6.7
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011·2.0
Thurgood
2011·6.5
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010·4.2
Predators
2010·6.3
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010·2.0
Predators: The Chosen
2010·3.0
Armored
2009·5.8
The Black List: Volume Two
2009·6.0
Days of Wrath
2008·5.5
Tortured
2008·5.5
21
2008·6.7
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007·6.2
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007·5.6
America’s Game: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2007·0.0
TMNT
2007·6.2
America's Game: 1986 New York Giants
2007·0.0
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007·8.5
Bobby
2006·6.4
Five Fingers
2006·6.0
Akeelah and the Bee
2006·7.0
Mission: Impossible III
2006·6.8
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006·7.4
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005·7.2
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005·8.0
Ashes and Snow
2005·7.3
Assault on Precinct 13
2005·6.2
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004·7.1
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004·6.8
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004·7.0
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
2004·7.3
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004·9.5
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004·6.9
The Matrix Revolutions
2003·6.8
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003·10.0
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003·6.1
Mystic River
2003·7.7
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003·6.0
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003·8.3
The Soul of a Man
2003·6.6
The Matrix Reloaded
2003·7.1
MTV Reloaded
2003·7.3
Biker Boyz
2003·6.3
Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz'
2003·0.0
A History of Sex
2003·5.5
Undercover Brother
2002·5.9
The Matrix Revisited
2001·6.9
Spooge
2001·0.0
Osmosis Jones
2001·6.5
Once in the Life
2000·4.8
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·4.2
Sex and the Matrix
2000·6.7
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000·7.5
Making "The Matrix"
1999·7.3
The Matrix
1999·8.3
Always Outnumbered
1998·6.4
Black Hollywood
1997·7.0
Hoodlum
1997·6.5
Event Horizon
1997·6.6
Miss Evers' Boys
1997·6.5
Fled
1996·5.7
Othello
1995·6.4
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995·7.1
Just Cause
1995·6.3
Bad Company
1995·4.9
Higher Learning
1995·6.3
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993·7.1
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993·7.1
Deep Cover
1992·6.8
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991·7.9
Boyz n the Hood
1991·7.6
Class Action
1991·6.3
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991·4.3
Decoration Day
1990·6.9
Cadence
1990·6.7
King of New York
1990·6.8
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
1988·7.2
Red Heat
1988·6.2
School Daze
1988·5.7
Cherry 2000
1987·6.0
Gardens of Stone
1987·6.2
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987·6.7
Band of the Hand
1986·6.2
Quicksilver
1986·5.6
The Color Purple
1985·7.7
The Cotton Club
1984·6.5
Rumble Fish
1983·7.0
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983·7.0
I Take These Men
1983·5.0
Death Wish II
1982·6.2
Willie & Phil
1980·4.6
Apocalypse Now
1979·8.3
Fast Break
1979·5.3
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975·6.8
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972·5.0