Laurence Fishburne (born July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia, USA) is a notable United States movie actor.

Laurence Fishburne started acting at the age of 12, getting his big break portraying Joshua Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live in 1973. Fishburne later earned a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", as well as a recurring role as "Cowboy Curtis" alongside Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) in the CBS children's television show, "Pee Wee's Playhouse". However, it was his 1991 role in "Boyz N The Hood" that gained him lasting recognition as an outstanding actor. The next year, Fishburne won a Tony Award for his stage performance in August Wilson's Two Trains Running, which was followed by an Oscar nomination one year later for his impersonation of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It?. Also in 1992 he received an Emmy Award for an episode of the short-lived TV series Tribeca. Nowadays Fishburne is best known for his role as Morpheus, the hacker-mentor of Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the blockbuster science fiction movie series "The Matrix."

Fishburne married actress Hajna O. Moss in 1985 and had two children with her, a son named Langston (born 1987) and a daughter named Montana (born 1991); however, the couple got divorced during the 1990s, and on September 20 2002, Fishburne married another actress, Gina Torres.

Filmography

Actor

• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Mystic River (2003)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• Biker Boyz (2003)
• Deep Cover / Chill Factor (2001)
• Osmosis Jones (2001)
• Once in the Life (2000)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1998)
• Event Horizon (1997)
• Hoodlum (1997)
• Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
• Fled (1996)
• The Tuskegee Airmen (1996)
• Bad Company (1995)
• Just Cause (1995)
• Othello (1995)
• Alien Warrior (1994)
• Higher Learning (1994)
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
• What's Love Got to Do With It? (1993)
• Deep Cover (1992)
• Boyz N the Hood (1991)
• Class Action (1991)
• Decoration Day (1990)
• King of New York (1990)
• Cadence (1989)
• Red Heat (1988) (As Larry Fishburne)
• Gardens of Stone (1987)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 1-4 (1987)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 5-8 (1987)
• School Daze (1987)
• Quicksilver (1986)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• The Cotton Club (1984)
• For Us, the Living - The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
• Rumble Fish (1983)
• Willie & Phil (1980)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Fast Break (1979)
• Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
• Deathwish (1974)
• One Life to Live (TV) (1973-1976)

Producer

• Once in the Life (2000)
• Hoodlum (1997)

Screenwriter

• Once in the Life (2000)

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