Laurence John Fishburne III born July 30 1961 is an American actor and producer He has been critically hailed for his forceful militant and authoritative characters in his films He is known for playing Morpheus in the first three films of The Matrix series 19992003 Jason Furious Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood 1991 Tyrone Mr Clean Miller in Francis Ford Coppolas war film Apocalypse Now 1979 and The Bowery King in the John Wick film series 2017present For his portrayal of Ike Turner in Whats Love Got to Do With It 1993 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 Parkers 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Other film credits of Fishburne include The Color Purple 1985 School Daze 1988 King of New York 1990 Deep Cover 1992 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Event Horizon 1997 Mystic River 2003 Akeelah and the Bee 2006 Contagion 2011 Man of Steel 2013 Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016 and AntMan and the Wasp 2018 On television he starred as Dr Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI Crime Scene Investigation 20082011 as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal 20132015 and as Earl Pops Johnson in the ABC sitcom Blackish 2014present
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