Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (lahir 30 Juli 1961) adalah seorang aktor Amerika. Sepanjang kariernya, ia telah memperoleh pengakuan atas perannya di panggung dan layar sebagai karakter yang militan dan berwibawa. Fishburne pertama kali menjadi terkenal saat tampil di Apocalypse Now (1979) dan mendapatkan pengakuan lebih lanjut atas peran pendukungnya dalam Boyz n the Hood (1991). Kemudian, ia dikenal karena memerankan Morpheus dalam trilogi The Matrix (1999–2003) dan Bowery King dalam seri film John Wick (2017–).

Atas perannya sebagai Ike Turner dalam What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik. Dia juga telah memenangkan enam Emmy Awards untuk berbagai proyek televisi, dan Tony Award untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik dalam Drama atas penampilannya dalam Two Trains Running (1992). Dia juga menerima nominasi untuk Golden Globe Award dan lima Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Karya film terkenal lainnya termasuk The Color Purple (1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), School Daze (1988), King of New York (1990), Deep Cover (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Event Horizon (1997), Mystic River (2003), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Predators (2010), Contagion (2011), Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), dan The Mule (2018). Di televisi, ia memiliki peran berulang sebagai Cowboy Curtis di Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986–1990), membintangi drama kriminal CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011), memerankan Jack Crawford dalam serial thriller NBC Hannibal (2013–2015), dan memerankan Earl "Pops" Johnson dalam sitkom ABC Black-ish (2014–2022).

 Stage 
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 Eden (1976)
 Short Eyes (1985)
 Urban Blight (1988)
 Loose Ends (1988)

 Two Trains Running (1992)
 Riff Raff (play) (1995)
 The Lion in Winter (1999)
 Fences (play) (2006)

 Filmografi 
 Aktor 

 One Life to Live (1973-1976)
 Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
 Fast Break (1979)
 Apocalypse Now (1979)
 Willie & Phil (1980)
 Death Wish II (1982)
 Rumble Fish (1983)
 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
 The Cotton Club (1984)
 The Color Purple (1985)
 Quicksilver (1986)
 Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 1-8 (1987)
 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
 Gardens of Stone (1987)
 Red Heat (1988)
 School Daze (1988)
 Cadence (1990)
 King of New York (1990)
 Decoration Day (1990)
 Class Action (1991)
 Boyz N the Hood (1991)
 Deep Cover (1992)
 What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
 Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
 Higher Learning (1994)
 Alien Warrior (1994)
 Othello (1995)
 Just Cause (1995)

 Bad Company (1995)
 The Tuskegee Airmen (1996)
 Fled (1996)
 Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
 Hoodlum (1997)
 Event Horizon (1997)
 Always Outnumbered (1998)
 The Matrix (1999)
 Once in the Life (2000)
 Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)
 Osmosis Jones (2001)
 Deep Cover / Chill Factor (2001)
 Biker Boyz (2003)
 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
 Mystic River (2003)
 The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
 Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
 True Crime: New York City (Video Game, 2005)
 Five Fingers (2006)
 Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
 Mission: Impossible III (2006)
 Bobby (2006)
 The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2006)
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)
 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
 Black Water Transit (2007)
 The Last Full Measure (2007)
 21 (2008)
 Days of Wrath (2008)
 Tortured (2008)
 4Chosen (2008)
 The Amateur (2025)

 Produser 

 TriBeCa (1993)
 Hoodlum (1997)
 Once in the Life (2000)
 Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

 Screenwriter 

 Once in the Life'' (2000)

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