Laurence Fishburne
Gender: Male
Born: 30th July 1961 (currently 50 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Pee-wee's Playhouse, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, One Life to Live, The Six O'Clock Follies, TriBeCa
Movies: Akeelah and the Bee, Apocalypse Now, Assault on Precinct 13, Band of the Hand, Boyz N the Hood, Event Horizon, Fled, Higher Learning, King of New York, Mission: Impossible III, Mystic River, Osmosis Jones, Othello, School Daze, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, What's Love Got to Do with It, The Cotton Club, Miss Evers' Boys, The Tuskegee Airmen, Bobby, Apocalypse Now Redux, Just Cause, Decoration Day, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Bad Company, 21, Cadence, Biker Boyz, Hoodlum, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Cornbread, Earl and Me, Red Heat, Five Fingers, Once in the Life, Deep Cover, Armored, The Matrix series, Black Water Transit, Tortured, The Color Purple, Predators, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Always Outnumbered, Rumble Fish, Welcome to Hollywood, Quicksilver, Gardens of Stone, Class Action, Death Wish II, Days of Wrath, Contagion, Thurgood, The Matrix Revisited, A Century of Black Cinema, MTV Movie Awards Reloaded, Cherry 2000, For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story, I Take These Men, A Rumor of War, Willie & Phil, TMNT, Have a Little Faith, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty, Sex and the Matrix, Man of Steel
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American film and stage actor, playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980's television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He 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. From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Fishburne has won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Drama Series Guest Actor for his performance in TriBeCa (1993).
Fishburne was born in Augusta, Georgia, the son of Hattie Bell (née Crawford), a junior high school mathematics and science teacher, and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr., a juvenile corrections officer. His parents divorced during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. Fishburne's father saw
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