Laurence Fishburne

At 62 years old, Laurence Fishburne has this physical status:

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.

Early life

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. After his parents divorced during his childhood, he moved with his mother to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. His father saw him once a month. Fishburne is a graduate of Lincoln Square Academy in New York, which closed in the 1980s.

Personal life

Fishburne married actress Hajna O. Moss in 1985, in New York. They have two children, son Langston (born 1987) and daughter Montana Fishburne (born 1991). Hajna and Laurence divorced in the 1990s.

Fishburne dated actress Victoria Dillard from 1992 to 1995.

Fishburne met actress Gina Torres and they were engaged in February 2001 and married on September 22, 2002, at The Cloisters museum in New York City. On January 8, 2007, Fishburne's spokesman Alan Nierob announced the couple were expecting their first child together. A daughter, Delilah, was born to the couple in June 2007. On September 20, 2017, it was confirmed that Torres and Fishburne were separated and had been keeping the separation private for the last year. Fishburne filed for divorce on November 2, 2017, and the divorce was finalized effective May 11, 2018, after Torres and Fishburne reached a final settlement on April 16, 2018.

Fishburne lives in Hollywood, and also maintains a residence in New York City, in the Castle Village Co-Op in the Hudson Heights section of Washington Heights. He is a fan of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and plans to produce a movie based on his novel The Alchemist.

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Career

Larry Fishburne was credited as Larry Fishburne throughout most of his early career. Fishburne's first acting role in the ABC Theater teleplay If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Bill" received raves. Joshua Hall appeared on ABC soap opera One Life to Live shortly after. In Cornbread, Earl and Me, he was a young boy who witnessed the police shooting of a famous high school basketball star, who had a memorable childhood role. Mr. Clean was later spotted in Apocalypse Now, in which he played Tyrone Miller, a cocky 17-year-old Gunner's Mate 3rd Class from the Bronx, as the cocky 17-year-old Gunner's Mate 3rd Class. He was just 14 years old when production started in March 1976, and he had lied about his age to gain the role. Filming took so long that he was actually 17 years old when it was complete.

Fishburne spent a considerable portion of the 1980s in and out of television and occasionally on stage. He began working as a bouncer at punk rock clubs, including Cathay de Grande in the early 1980s. He appeared in the early 1980s films Band of the Hand, Death Wish 2 and The Cotton Club, and he appeared in the critically acclaimed Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple. On Paul Reubens' CBS children's television series Pee-wee's Playhouse, Fishburne appeared as Cowboy Curtis. "The Tooth Shall Set You Free" was also included in the M*A*S*H episode "The Tooth Shall Set You Free." He appeared in Spenser: For Hire, as a guest actor on the second season of "Personal Demons." In Quicksilver, he appeared alongside Kevin Bacon. Short Eyes (1984), and Loose Ends (1987), two of his stage appearances in New York City, were produced at the Second Stage Theatre. He appeared in the third A Nightmare on Elm Street film as a hospital orderly in 1987. In Red Heat (1988) alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi, Fishburne appeared. In Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Fishburne appeared as "Dap" as "Dap." Fishburne's character was a recreation of an African American, culturally inclined college student at a historically black college.

Fishburne appeared in Jimmy Jump in the turbulent King of New York in 1990, and he appeared in Boyz n the Hood in 1991. He received a Tony Award for his role in the August Wilson play Two Trains Running and an Emmy Award for his work in the first episode of the short-lived anthology series television drama TriBeCa. He appeared in Deep Cover alongside Jeff Goldblum. He received his first Oscar nomination in 1993 for his role as Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It. In the 1995 American drama ensemble film, Higher Learning, Fishburne received an Image Award for his role as West Indian Professor Maurice Phipps. After Paul Robeson, he appeared in Othello, the second African-American actor to appear in Othello. Fishburne appeared in the science fiction horror film Event Horizon in 1997 with Sam Neill. In the 1999 blockbuster science fiction film The Matrix, Fishburne is perhaps best known for his role as Morpheus, the hacker-mentor of Neo played by Keanu Reeves.

In Osmosis Jones' 2001, Fishburne portrayed Thrax. In the Matrix sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, he reprised his role as Morpheus. In Mission: Impossible III, he appeared in one of the Spooks' video "Things I've Seen" (2000) and met with Tom Cruise as Theodore Brassell, the IMF's superior of Cruise's character. Fishburne has worked with actress Angela Bassett on four projects. "When the two of us work together, it is an electrifying thing," he said. I haven't had it with anyone else. "We work together" creates a sense of freedom. They appeared onstage in August Wilson's Fences' Pasadena Playhouse production in 2006. In the 2006 film Five Fingers, he played Ahmat, the CIA leader who was revealed to be a CIA agent.

In the 2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, TMNT, which was a commercial success, he played the narrator. In the 2007 film Fantastic Four: The Silver Surfer, he appeared in the same year. At the annual show Cultural Rhythms, Fishburne was named Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation on February 24, 2007. He was honoured for his work as an actor and entertainer as well as his charitable causes. Fishburne is a UNICEF ambassador.

Fishburne appeared onstage in Thurgood, a new play by George Stevens, Jr. Thurgood's new play, opened at the Booth Theatre in April 2008. For his appearance, he received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. On February 24, 2011, HBO screened a filmed version of the play at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The White House held a screening of the film on February 16, 2011 as part of the White House's commemorations of Black History Month.

After William Petersen, who played Gil Grissom, quit the film, Laurence Fishburne was announced on August 18, 2008, she would be joining the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Prior to the announcement, John Malkovich had been considered for the position. On the ninth episode of the 9th season, Fishburne appeared as a college professor and former pathologist whose subject matter of expertise includes certain criminals' predisposition to commit crimes. The character was born as a consultant on a case ("19 Down") and later joined the CSI team ("One to Go"). Fishburne appeared on-stage in the National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in May 2009.

In 2010, and Contagion in 2011, Fishburne appeared in Predators and Contagion. On June 7, 2011, Fishburne announced that he was leaving CSI to return to films and theatre, rather than renewing his contract and will not be back to theaters. In the Zack Snyder-directed Superman revival Man of Steel (2013), Fishburne played Perry White. Fishburne appeared on Hannibal's cast as Dr. Jack Crawford, the FBI's head of Behavioral Sciences. Fishburne reprised his role as Morpheus in a string of Kia K900 commercials in 2014. Fishburne appeared on ABC's Black-ish in the recurring role of Pops in 2015; Fishburne is also an executive producer on the show. Fishburne has also worked as an executive producer for the Freeform sitcom Grown-ish, a spin-off series to Black-ish.

Fishburne reprised his role in the sequel Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016 and appeared in the science fiction/romance film Passengers.

Cinema Gypsy Productions, Fishburne's production company, has signed a two-year overall contract with ABC Studios in June 2017.

In his first collaboration with Keanu Reeves since The Matrix trilogy, he appeared in the neo-noir action thriller film John Wick: Chapter 2 as The Bowery King. Fishburne also appeared in the comedy-drama Last Flag Flying in 2017 as the character Rev. Richard Mueller. In 1998, Fishburne played Bill Foster in Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp, directed by Peyton Reed. The film was released in July 6. Fishburne is currently serving as co-creator and executive producer on the Marvel Studios Animation/Disney Television Animation film Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

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