Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy 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 adaption of the Shakespeare play. 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’s first marriage was to actress to Hajna O. Moss. They had two children together: a son, Langston and a daughter, Montana. Fishburne is now married to actress Gina Torres. They live in Hollywood with their daughter Delilah.
Movie | Black Water Transit | Jack | 2025 |
Movie | Megalopolis | 2025 | |
Movie | Sneaks | The Collector (voice) | 2024-10-10 |
Series | Clipped | Doc Rivers | 2024-06-04 |
Movie | Slingshot | Captain Franks | 2024-08-23 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Bowery King | 2023-03-22 |
Movie | All the Old Knives | Vick Wallinger | 2022-04-08 |
Movie | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | 2022-10-19 |
Movie | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | 2022-10-09 |
Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
Movie | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | 2021-06-04 |
Movie | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-27 |
Movie | The Ice Road | Jim Goldenrod | 2021-06-24 |
Movie | The Matrix Resurrections | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-12-16 |
Movie | Space Jam: A New Legacy | Thrax (voice) | 2021-07-08 |
Series | History's Greatest Mysteries | Self - Host | 2020-11-14 |
Movie | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-27 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | 2019-05-15 |
Movie | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | 2019-08-16 |
Movie | Running with the Devil | The Man | 2019-08-29 |
Movie | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | 2018-12-14 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | 2018-07-04 |
Series | Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' | Self | 2018-10-13 |
Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | 2017-02-08 |
Series | Madiba | Nelson Mandela | 2017-02-01 |
Movie | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017-11-03 |
Movie | Standoff | Sade | 2016-02-26 |
Movie | The Snowy Day | Narrator | 2016-11-25 |
Movie | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | 2016-03-23 |
Movie | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | 2016-12-21 |
Series | Roots | Alex Haley | 2016-05-30 |
Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
Movie | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | 2015-08-18 |
Movie | Ride Along | Omar | 2014-01-07 |
Series | black-ish | Pops Johnson | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014-03-15 |
Movie | Rudderless | Del | 2014-10-17 |
Series | Hannibal | Jack Crawford | 2013-04-04 |
Movie | The Colony | Briggs | 2013-04-12 |
Movie | Khumba | Seko (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Man of Steel | Perry White | 2013-06-12 |
Movie | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | 2011-09-08 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Have a Little Faith | Henry Covington | 2011-11-27 |
Movie | Predators | Noland | 2010-07-03 |
Movie | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | 2010-01-01 |
Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
Movie | Armored | Baines | 2009-12-04 |
Movie | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | 2009-02-26 |
Movie | 21 | Cole Williams | 2008-03-27 |
Movie | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | 2008-09-17 |
Movie | Tortured | Archie Green | 2008-09-10 |
Movie | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Gruzsa | 2007-07-23 |
Movie | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Himself | 2007-01-16 |
Movie | TMNT | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-23 |
Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
Movie | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | 2006-04-25 |
Movie | Five Fingers | Ahmat | 2006-05-01 |
Movie | Bobby | Edward Robinson | 2006-09-05 |
Movie | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee | 2006-04-28 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
Movie | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-09-05 |
Movie | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | 2004-04-06 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | 2003-01-30 |
Movie | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | 2003-11-05 |
Movie | Biker Boyz | Smoke | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | A History of Sex | Himself | 2003-01-14 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | 2003-10-14 |
Movie | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Himself | 2003-06-24 |
Movie | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | 2003-05-16 |
Movie | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | 2003-05-15 |
Movie | Mystic River | Sergeant Whitey Powers | 2003-03-03 |
Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Morpheus | 2001-11-19 |
Movie | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | 2001-08-10 |
Movie | Once in the Life | 20 / 20 Mike | 2000-10-27 |
Movie | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
Movie | Making 'The Matrix' | Self | 1999-09-21 |
Movie | The Matrix | Morpheus | 1999-03-31 |
Movie | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | 1998-03-21 |
Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | 1998-10-01 |
Movie | Event Horizon | Miller | 1997-08-15 |
Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Caleb Humphries | 1997-02-22 |
Movie | Hoodlum | Bumpy Johnson | 1997-08-27 |
Movie | Fled | Piper | 1996-07-19 |
Movie | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | 1995-01-20 |
Movie | Higher Learning | Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995-01-11 |
Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | 1995-08-25 |
Movie | Othello | Othello | 1995-12-15 |
Movie | Just Cause | Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995-02-17 |
Series | TriBeCa | 1993-03-23 | |
Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | 1993-08-13 |
Movie | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | 1993-06-09 |
Movie | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992-04-15 |
Movie | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 1991-11-27 |
Movie | Class Action | Nick Holbrook | 1991-03-15 |
Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Jason 'Furious' Styles | 1991-07-12 |
Movie | Decoration Day | Michael Waring, DOD Man | 1990-12-02 |
Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
Movie | Cadence | Roosevelt Stokes | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | 1990-07-18 |
Movie | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | 1988-12-21 |
Movie | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | 1988-06-17 |
Movie | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987-11-10 |
Movie | Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Flanagan | 1987-05-05 |
Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | 1987-02-27 |
Movie | Quicksilver | Voodoo | 1986-02-14 |
Movie | Band of the Hand | Cream | 1986-04-11 |
Series | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Cowboy Curtis | 1986-09-13 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Swain | 1985-12-18 |
Movie | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | 1983-03-22 |
Movie | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | 1983-01-05 |
Movie | Rumble Fish | Midget | 1983-10-09 |
Movie | Death Wish II | Cutter | 1982-02-20 |
Series | The Six O'Clock Follies | Robby Robinson | 1980-04-24 |
Movie | Willie and Phil | High School Student | 1980-08-15 |
Series | A Rumor of War | Lightbulb | 1980-09-24 |
Movie | Fast Break | Street Kid | 1979-03-02 |
Movie | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979-08-15 |
Movie | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | 1975-05-21 |
Movie | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | 1972-12-19 |