
Laurence Fishburne
Fødselsdag: 1961-07-30
Fødested: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Biografi: 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).

Apocalypse Now, 1979
Drama
Krig

Death Wish II, 1982
Action
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Drama

Rumble Fish, 1983
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Drama

The Cotton Club, 1984
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Drama

The Color Purple, 1985
Drama
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, 1987
Gys
Thriller
Fantasy

Cherry 2000, 1987
Action
Eventyr
Sci-Fi

Red Heat, 1988
Action
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King of New York, 1990
Thriller
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Boyz n the Hood, 1991
Detektiv
Drama

What's Love Got to Do with It, 1993
Drama
Historisk

Searching for Bobby Fischer, 1993
Drama

Just Cause, 1995
Action
Drama
Mysterium
Thriller

Fled, 1996
Action

Event Horizon, 1997
Gys
Sci-Fi
Mysterium

The Matrix, 1999
Action
Sci-Fi

Osmosis Jones, 2001
Eventyr
Animation
Action
Komedie

The Matrix Revolutions, 2003
Eventyr
Action
Thriller
Sci-Fi

The Matrix Reloaded, 2003
Eventyr
Action
Thriller
Sci-Fi

Mystic River, 2003
Thriller
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Drama
Mysterium

Biker Boyz, 2003
Action
Drama

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005
Komedie
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Mysterium

Assault on Precinct 13, 2005
Thriller
Action
Eventyr
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Drama

Mission: Impossible III, 2006
Eventyr
Action
Thriller

Akeelah and the Bee, 2006
Drama

Bobby, 2006
Drama

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 2007
Sci-Fi
Eventyr
Action

TMNT, 2007
Eventyr
Animation
Komedie

The Death and Life of Bobby Z, 2007
Drama
Action
Thriller
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21, 2008
Drama
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Armored, 2009
Action
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Drama
Thriller
Mysterium

Predators, 2010
Sci-Fi
Action
Thriller

Contagion, 2011
Drama
Thriller
Sci-Fi

Man of Steel, 2013
Action
Eventyr
Sci-Fi

The Colony, 2013
Action
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Khumba, 2013
Animation
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The Signal, 2014
Thriller
Sci-Fi

Ride Along, 2014
Action
Komedie

Rudderless, 2014
Drama
Komedie

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016
Action
Eventyr
Fantasy

Passengers, 2016
Drama
Romantik
Sci-Fi

Standoff, 2016
Thriller
Drama

John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017
Action
Thriller
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Last Flag Flying, 2017
Drama
Komedie

The Mule, 2018
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Drama

Ant-Man and the Wasp, 2018
Action
Eventyr
Sci-Fi

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, 2019
Action
Thriller
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Running with the Devil, 2019
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Drama
Thriller

Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 2019
Komedie
Drama

Death to 2020, 2020
Komedie

The Ice Road, 2021
Action
Thriller

Death to 2021, 2021
Komedie

The School for Good and Evil, 2022
Fantasy
Komedie
Eventyr
Drama

All the Old Knives, 2022
Thriller
Action

John Wick: Chapter 4, 2023
Action
Thriller
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