Laurence Fishburne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Laurence Fishburne

Award-winning American film, theatre, and television actor, film director, film producer, and playwright

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1961

Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, playwright, executive producer, stage actor, voice actor, film director, film producer, theater director, television actor, film actor, producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Laurence Fishburne

  • Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director.
  • He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood, Tyrone "Mr.
  • Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now, and most recently "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series. For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, 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. Fishburne starred in several cult classics, including Deep Cover and King of New York.
  • From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr.
  • Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and from 2013 to 2015 starred as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal.
  • In 2013, he portrayed Perry White in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot Man of Steel and in 2016 reprised his role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as part of the DC Extended Universe.
  • Fishburne played Bill Foster in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp, released in 2018 as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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