Laurence Fishburne
A versatile performer equally adept at playing both hero and villain, actor Laurence Fishburne emerged on the scene after famously lying about his age to Francis Ford Coppola in order to land a prominent part in the director's seminal "Apocalypse Now" (1979). Though he struggled in small parts over the ensuing decade, Fishburne came into his own as a father trying to keep his son out of the gang life in "Boyz n the Hood" (1991). After richly textured supporting roles in "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993) and "Searching for Bobby Fisher" (1993), he became the first African-American actor to perform the title role of "Othello" (1995) for a major Hollywood studio. Toward the end of the decade, Fishburne achieved iconic status with his Zen-like performance as the leather-clad Morpheus in the cultural phenomenon, "The Matrix" (1999), a role he reprised in the back-to-back sequels. With appearances in movies like "Mission: Impossible III" (2006), "Bobby" (2006) and "Assault on Precinct 13" (2005), as well as taking over the central role on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000-2015) and both co-starring in and co-producing the sitcom "black-ish" (ABC 2014- ), Fishburne solidified his legacy as a truly diverse and welcome performer.
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Laurence Fishburne
Filmography
Movies
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21% | No Score Yet | Cellar Door | Emmett (Character) | - | 2024 |
46% |
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Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine (Character) | $7.4M | 2024 |
89% |
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Transformers One | Alpha Trion (Voice) | $58.6M | 2024 |
38% |
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Slingshot | Captain Franks (Character) | $726.6K | 2024 |
94% |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King (Character) | $187.1M | 2023 |
100% |
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | - | 2022 |
38% |
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The School for Good and Evil | School Master (Character) | - | 2022 |
63% |
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All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cave of Adullam |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonnie | Self | - | 2022 |
43% |
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The Ice Road | Goldenrod (Character) | - | 2021 |
11% |
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Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian (Character) | - | 2021 |
25% |
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Running With the Devil | The Man (Character) | - | 2019 |
50% |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek (Character) | $9.2M | 2019 |
89% |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum | Bowery King (Character) | $171.0M | 2019 |
0% |
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Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin (Character) | $12.1K | 2018 |
70% |
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The Mule | Special Agent in Charge (Character) | $103.8M | 2018 |
87% |
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Ant-Man and The Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster (Character) | $216.6M | 2018 |
76% |
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Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller (Character) | $960.3K | 2017 |
89% |
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John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King (Character) | $92.0M | 2017 |
30% |
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Passengers | Gus Mancuso (Character) | $100.0M | 2016 |
29% |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White (Character) | $330.2M | 2016 |
57% |
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Standoff |
Sade (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2016 |
65% |
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Rudderless | Del (Character) | $56.0K | 2014 |
60% |
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The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon (Character) | $597.4K | 2014 |
18% |
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Ride Along | Omar (Character) | $134.1M | 2014 |
44% |
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Khumba | Seko (Voice) | - | 2013 |
18% |
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The Colony | Briggs (Character) | - | 2013 |
57% |
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Man of Steel | Perry White (Character) | $291.0M | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Slavery By Another Name | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Thurgood | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
85% |
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Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever (Character) | $75.6M | 2011 |
65% |
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Predators | Noland (Character) | $52.0M | 2010 |
42% |
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Armored | Baines (Character) | $16.0M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Water Transit |
Jack (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2009 |
100% |
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Days of Wrath | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Tortured | Archie Green (Character) | - | 2008 |
36% |
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21 | Cole Williams (Character) | $81.2M | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa (Character) | - | 2007 |
37% |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Silver Surfer (Voice) | $131.9M | 2007 |
36% |
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TMNT | Narrator | $54.1M | 2007 |
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Five Fingers |
Ahmat (Character), Producer |
- | 2006 |
47% |
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Bobby | Edward Robinson (Character) | $11.2M | 2006 |
71% |
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Mission: Impossible III | John Brassel (Character) | $133.4M | 2006 |
86% |
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Akeelah and the Bee |
Dr. Larabee (Character), Producer |
$18.8M | 2006 |
60% |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop (Character) | $19.9M | 2005 |
33% |
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The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus (Character) | $139.3M | 2003 |
89% |
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Mystic River | Whitey Powers (Character) | $90.1M | 2003 |
74% |
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The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus (Character) | $281.5M | 2003 |
22% |
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Biker Boyz | Smoke (Character) | $21.7M | 2003 |
55% |
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Osmosis Jones | Thrax (Voice) | $13.6M | 2001 |
67% |
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Michael Jordan: To the Max | Narrator | $18.6M | 2000 |
28% |
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Once in the Life |
20/ Director, Screenwriter, Writer, Producer |
$53.5K | 2000 |
83% |
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The Matrix | Morpheus (Character) | $171.4M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Always Outnumbered |
Socrates Fortlow (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Self | - | 1998 |
35% |
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Event Horizon | Capt. Miller (Character) | $26.7M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Miss Evers' Boys |
Caleb Humphries (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 1997 |
43% |
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Hoodlum |
Bumpy Johnson (Character), Executive Producer |
$23.5M | 1997 |
18% |
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Fled | Piper (Character) | $17.2M | 1996 |
86% |
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee (Character) | - | 1995 |
46% |
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Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps (Character) | $36.8M | 1995 |
68% |
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Othello | Othello (Character) | $2.2M | 1995 |
26% |
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Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown (Character) | $35.7M | 1995 |
27% |
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Bad Company | Nelson Crowe (Character) | $3.7M | 1994 |
100% |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie (Character) | $7.9M | 1993 |
97% |
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What's Love Got to Do With It | Ike Turner, Sr. (Character) | $38.9M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tina - What's Love Got to Do with It | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
87% |
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Deep Cover |
Russell Stevens Jr./ |
$16.6M | 1992 |
100% |
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
77% |
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Class Action | Nick Holbrook (Character) | $23.9M | 1991 |
96% |
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Boyz N the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles (Character) | $55.1M | 1991 |
42% |
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Cadence | Stokes (Character) | $2.1M | 1990 |
72% |
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King of New York | Jimmy Jump (Character) | $2.6M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un Príncipe de Nueva York | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
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Decoration Day | Michael Waring (Character) | - | 1990 |
38% |
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Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer (Character) | - | 1988 |
69% |
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Red Heat | Lt. Charlie Stobbs (Character) | $35.0M | 1988 |
58% |
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School Daze | Dap (Character) | $11.7M | 1988 |
44% |
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Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan (Character) | $4.4M | 1987 |
68% |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max (Character) | $44.1M | 1987 |
0% |
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Band of the Hand | Cream (Character) | $4.9M | 1986 |
13% |
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Quicksilver | Voodoo (Character) | $5.6M | 1986 |
74% |
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The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes (Character) | - | 1984 |
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For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story | Jimbo Collins (Character) | - | 1983 |
76% |
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Rumble Fish | Midget (Character) | - | 1983 |
35% |
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Death Wish II | Cutter (Character) | - | 1982 |
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Willie and Phil | Wilson (Character) | - | 1980 |
90% |
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Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller (Character) | $78.8M | 1979 |
93% |
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Apocalypse Now Redux | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Fast Break | Street Kid (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson (Character) | - | 1975 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | History's Greatest Mysteries |
Executive Producer, Host, Narrator |
2020-2024 |
88% | 60% | Clipped | Doc Rivers (Character) | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2014 2023-2024 |
100% | 93% | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer |
2023-2024 |
89% | 79% | What If...? |
Dr. Bill Foster/ |
2023 |
No Score Yet | 44% | grown-ish |
Pops (Guest Star), Executive Producer |
2018-2019 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | History's Greatest Playlist | Host | 2023 |
92% | 57% | black-ish |
Pops (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Unknown (Voice), Executive Producer |
2014-2022 |
85% | 81% | MacGruber | General Barrett Fasoose (Character) | 2021 |
76% | 59% | mixed-ish |
Pops (Guest Star), Executive Producer |
2019-2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 2018 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Josh Gates Tonight | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016 2020 |
100% | 100% | #FreeRayshawn | Lt. Steven Poincy (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2016 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elvis Goes There | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They've Gotta Have Us | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Year Million | Narrator | 2017 |
100% | No Score Yet | Madiba | Nelson Mandela (Character) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2017 |
96% | 75% | Roots | Alex Haley (Character) | 2016 |
64% | 73% | The Muppets | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
93% | 94% | Hannibal | Dr. Jack Crawford (Character) | 2013-2015 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange | Narrator | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Raymond Langston (Character) | 2008-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lopez Tonight |
Unknown (Character), Guest |
2009-2010 |
No Score Yet | 82% | CSI: New York | Dr. Raymond Langston (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Equalizer | Casey Taylor (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
71% | 89% | Miami Vice | Prison Guard Keller (Guest Star) | 1986 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues | Maurice Haynes (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 87% | M*A*S*H | Corporal Dorsey (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |