Laurence Fishburne
Highest Rated: 100% Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019)
Lowest Rated: 0% Imprisoned (2019)
Birthday: Jul 30, 1961
Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Was cast in Apocalypse Now when he was 14 by telling director Francis Ford Coppola he was 18. Turned down the role of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It five times. When he heard Angela Bassett would be playing Tina, he reconsidered. First African-American to play Shakespeare's Othello on film, in the 1995 movie. Wrote his 2000 directorial debut film Once in the Life, which he based on his play, Riff Raff. In 2008, began a two-and-a-half season stint as criminal pathologist Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Portrayed Thurgood Marshall on Broadway in 2008's one-man play Thurgood; later reprised his role for a 2010 Kennedy Center production that HBO filmed and then debuted in 2011.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70% | The Cotton Club Encore | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 25% | Running with the Devil | The Man | — | 2019 |
| 0% | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | — | 2019 |
| 49% | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | — | 2019 |
| 100% | Apocalypse Now: Final Cut | Clean | — | 2019 |
| 90% | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | — | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | Five Fingers | Actor Producer | — | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | La Traque du diable | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 70% | The Mule | DEA Special Agent | — | 2018 |
| 88% | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Bill Foster | — | 2018 |
| 78% | Last Flag Flying | Mueller | $0.5M | 2017 |
| 89% | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | $92M | 2017 |
| 31% | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | $100.1M | 2016 |
| 28% | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | $293.8M | 2016 |
| 56% | Standoff | Executive Producer Producer Sade | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Actor | — | 2015 |
| 61% | The Signal | Damon | $0.5M | 2014 |
| 18% | Ride Along | Omar | $110.4M | 2014 |
| 44% | Khumba | Seko | $91K | 2013 |
| 18% | The Colony | Briggs | — | 2013 |
| 56% | Man of Steel | Perry White | $291.1M | 2013 |
| 33% | A Man's Story | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Slavery By Another Name | Narrator | — | 2012 |
| 100% | Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone | Narrator | — | 2011 |
| 84% | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | $75.7M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Have A Little Faith | Rev. Henry Covington | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Thurgood | Actor | — | 2011 |
| 65% | Predators | Noland | $52.1M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Black Water Transit | Jack Vermillion | — | 2010 |
| 40% | Armored | Baines | $16M | 2009 |
| 36% | 21 | Cole Williams | $81.2M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Days of Wrath | Actor | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Bruzsa | — | 2007 |
| 37% | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Voice of the Silver Surfer | $131.8M | 2007 |
| 34% | TMNT | Narrator | $54.2M | 2007 |
| 47% | Bobby | Edward Robinson | $11.1M | 2006 |
| 70% | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | $133.5M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Five Fingers | Ahmat | — | 2006 |
| 85% | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee Producer | $18.9M | 2006 |
| 59% | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | $20M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | The Burly Man Chronicles | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 35% | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | $139.1M | 2003 |
| 88% | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | $88.9M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Actor | — | 2003 |
| 73% | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | $281.6M | 2003 |
| 23% | Biker Boyz | Smoke | $21.8M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | The Soul of a Man | Narrator | — | 2003 |
| 93% | Apocalypse Now Redux | Clean | $2M | 2001 |
| 55% | Osmosis Jones | Thrax | $12.4M | 2001 |
| 28% | Once in the Life | Screenwriter Director 20/20 Mike Producer | — | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Welcome to Hollywood | Actor | — | 2000 |
| 67% | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator | — | 2000 |
| 88% | The Matrix | Morpheus | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Always Outnumbered | Executive Producer Socrates Fortlow | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Welcome to Hollywood | Himself | — | 1998 |
| 43% | Hoodlum | Executive Producer Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson | — | 1997 |
| 27% | Event Horizon | Miller | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Miss Evers' Boys | Executive Producer Caleb Humphries | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Century of Black Cinema | Actor | — | 1997 |
| 16% | Fled | Piper | — | 1996 |
| 67% | Othello | Othello | — | 1995 |
| 88% | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | — | 1995 |
| 24% | Just Cause | Tanny Brown | — | 1995 |
| 27% | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | — | 1995 |
| 45% | Higher Learning | Prof. Phipps | — | 1994 |
| 100% | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | — | 1993 |
| 96% | What's Love Got To Do With It? | Ike Turner | — | 1993 |
| 86% | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | — | 1992 |
| 96% | Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | — | 1991 |
| 100% | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Actor | — | 1991 |
| 75% | Class Action | Holbrook | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Decoration Day | Michael Waring | — | 1990 |
| 72% | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | — | 1990 |
| 42% | Cadence | Stokes | — | 1989 |
| 67% | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | — | 1988 |
| 58% | School Daze | Dap Dunlap | — | 1988 |
| 40% | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | The Father Clements Story | Actor | — | 1987 |
| 47% | Gardens of Stone | Cpl. Flanagan | — | 1987 |
| 74% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | — | 1987 |
| 11% | Band of the Hand | Cream | — | 1986 |
| 13% | Quicksilver | Voodoo | — | 1986 |
| 81% | The Color Purple | Swain | — | 1985 |
| 76% | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | — | 1984 |
| 71% | Rumble Fish | Midget | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | — | 1983 |
| 33% | Death Wish II | Cutter | — | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | Willie & Phil | Wilson | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | A Rumor of War | Actor | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | Fast Break | Street Kid | — | 1979 |
| 98% | Apocalypse Now | Clean | — | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford | — | 1975 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 80% |
mixed-ish 2019 |
Executive Producer Pops |
2020 2019 |
| No Score Yet |
grown-ish 2018 |
Executive Producer |
2020 2019 2018 |
| 91% |
black-ish 2014 |
Executive Producer Producer Pops |
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 |
| 71% |
Black Hollywood: They've Gotta Have Us 2018 |
Appearing |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Talk 2010 |
Guest |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2018 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Conan 2010 |
Guest |
2018 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Harry 2016-2018 |
Guest |
2017 |
| 100% |
Madiba 2017 |
Nelson Mandela NELSON MANDELA |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Year Million 2017 |
Narrator Executive Producer |
2017 |
| 96% |
Roots 2016 |
Alex Haley |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Jay Leno's Garage 2015 |
Guest |
2015 |
| 64% |
The Muppets 2015-2016 |
Himself |
2015 |
| 92% |
Hannibal 2013-2015 |
Dr. Jack Crawford Jack Crawford Director |
2015 2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2015 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015 |
Ray Langston Raymond Langston |
2015 2011 2010 2009 2008 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2014 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Iron Chef America 2004-2018 |
Judge |
2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Dr. Phil 2002 |
Guest |
2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight 2009-2011 |
Guest |
2010 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Crime Scene Investigation [DELETED] 2003-2010 |
Raymond Langston |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami 2002-2012 |
Ray Langston |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
CSI: NY 2004-2013 |
Ray Langston |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014 |
Guest |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
Guest |
2003 2001 |
| 100% |
Tribeca 1993 |
1993 |
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| No Score Yet |
The Equalizer 1985-1989 |
Casey |
1989 |
| No Score Yet |
Miami Vice 1984-1990 |
Kellar |
1986 |
| No Score Yet |
American Playhouse 1982-1996 |
Jimbo Collins |
1983 |
| No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H 1972-1983 |
Cpl. Dorsey |
1982 |
| No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D. 1979-1986 |
Hobie |
1981 |
QUOTES FROM Laurence Fishburne CHARACTERS
Perry White says: Clicks his heels three times, and he's back in Kansas.
Perry White says: Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman!
Perry White says: Kent! Where does he go? Where does he go?..Clicks his heels three times and goes back to Kansas I suppose..
Perry White says: Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman
Perry White says: Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.
Sade says: You want to play with me?
Sade says: You're a soldier boy. Is this a broken home?
Sade says: I see you know your guns, friend. Now you need to know your place.
Omar says: Stop throwing stuff
Miggs says: I can't I already pulled it
Omar says: If Omar shoots him then Omar shoot him
Russell Stevens Jr./John Hull says: I'd been turned out like a two-dollar whore, with no kiss and no towel.
Russell Stevens Jr./John Hull says: What would you do?
Neo says: Am I dead?
Morpheus says: Far from it.
Tank says: How?
Morpheus says: He is the one!
Morpheus says: Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You'll have to see it for yourself.
Niobe says: I keep thinking, what if you're wrong? What if all this, the prophecy, everything is bullshit?
Morpheus says: Then, we'll all be dead.
Cutter says: Awww, man. We look all the same to whitey, anyway. He'll never pick you out, Jiver.
Ahmat says: If more Westerners played chess, they would understand.There are no bluffs--only calculations.
Darryl says: I ain't afraid of you.
Socrates Fortlow says: Yeah you is. You ain't no fool.
Morpheus says: Neo, if you're out there, I could use some help.
Neo says: What do you want, Smith?
Agent Smith says: Oh, you haven't you figured that out? still using all the muscles except the one that matters. I want exactly what you want, I want everything.
Morpheus says: would that include a bullet from this gun?
Agent Smith says: Go ahead, Shoot. The best thing about being me, is there so many mes!
Perry White says: I just came back from Aruba... Check out my tan.
Perry White says: I just came back from Aruba. Check out my tan.
Perry White says: Can you imagine how the people on this planet would react if they knew there was someone like this out there?
Morpheus says: What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Furious Styles says: Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.
Neo says: I thought it wasn't real.
Morpheus says: Your mind makes it real.
Morpheus says: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Morpheus says: What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.
Morpheus says: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Neo says: Am I dead?
Morpheus says: Far from it.
Morpheus says: What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
Morpheus says: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if were unable to wake up from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world & the real world?
Neo says: This can't be.
Morpheus says: Be what? Be real?
Morpheus says: This is a war, and we are soldiers, what if tomorrow the war could be over, isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
Morpheus says: The matrix is a system Neo, that system is our enemy.
Neo says: I know Kung Fu!
Morpheus says: Show me!
Morpheus says: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's design to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo says: What does that mean?
Cypher says: It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy because Kansas is going bye bye.
Morpheus says: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief, Free your mind.
Neo says: I know what you're trying to do.
Morpheus says: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Morpheus says: Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!
Morpheus says: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Morpheus says: Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Morpheus says: Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
Morpheus says: Nobody can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself.
Morpheus says: Were you listening to me Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Morpheus says: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
Morpheus says: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Morpheus says: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus says: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Morpheus says: [after knocking Neo down] How did I beat you?
Neo says: [gasping] You're too fast.
Morpheus says: Do you believe that my being faster or stronger has anything to do with my muscles in this place? You think that's air you're breathing now?
Morpheus says: He is the one.
Captain Miller says: You miss me, you blow out the hull.
Weir says: What makes you think I'll miss?
Captain Miller says: This place is a tomb!
Captain Miller says: Vacate! I want off this ship!
Weir says: You can't leave. She won't let you.
Captain Miller says: You just get your gear and get back on the Lewis and Clark, Doctor, or you'll find yourself walkin' home.
Weir says: I am home.
Captain Miller says: Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?
Weir says: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
Captain Miller says: What are you talking about?
Weir says: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
Captain Miller says: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.
Weir says: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.
Theodore Brassel says: Mr. Musgrave, please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions.
Morpheus says: Welcome...To the real world.
Morpheus says: Welcome... To the real world.
Playmate of the Year says: Who are you?
Clean says: I'm next, ma'am.
Neo says: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Neo says: If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?
Morpheus says: The body cannot live without the mind
Morpheus says: The body cannot live without the mind.
Morpheus says: Free your mind.
Morpheus says: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Morpheus says: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
Morpheus says: Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Dr. Ellis Cheever says: Well, Dr. Gupta, there continue to be evaluations of several drugs, Ribavirin is among them. But, right now our best defence has been social distancing. No hands shaking, staying home when you're sick, washing your hands frequently.
Helpful Doctor says: Alan today on Twitter, you wrote on that the truth about this virus is being kept from the world, by the CDC, by the World Health Organisation, to allow friends of the current administration to benefit from it both financially and physically.
Morpheus says: No. What happend happend, and couldn't have happend any other way.
Weir says: Now it is time to go back.
Weir says: And now... it is time to go back.
Captain Miller says: I know, to hell
Captain Miller says: [sounding bored] I know. To hell
Weir says: You know noting. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse. Let me show you!
Weir says: You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse. Let me show you!
Dr. Ellis Cheever says: No one has to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that
Dr. Ellis Cheever says: Someone doesn't has to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
Dr. Ellis Cheever says: Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
Dr. Ellis Cheever says: So we have a virus with no treatment protocol, and no vaccine at this time.
Morpheus says: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Morpheus says: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Morpheus says: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Morpheus says: As long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free.
Max says: This lump over here... This is Kincaid. Now I want you to take a good look. See, he gets himself thrown in the quite room so often that you probably won't see a whole lot of him. Ain't that right, "Cool Breeze"?
Max says: This lump over here. This is Kincaid. Now I want you to take a good look. See, he gets himself thrown in the quite room so often that you probably won't see a whole lot of him. Ain't that right, 'Cool Breeze'?
Kincaid says: Right. I do it so I don't have to look at your ugly face all the time.
Max says: Yeah, I love you too.
Max says: Say, listen Doc, I got a new theory about all these suicides...Right?
Max says: Say, listen Doc, I got a new theory about all these suicides. Right?
Dr. Neil Goldman says: Don't hold back on us, Max. We need all the help we can get.
Max says: It's fu*ked up chromosomes, man. Think about it. All their parents dropped acid during the sixties.
Dr. Neil Goldman says: Well, it beats Simm's theory. She thinks it's nothing but sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
Max says: Sh*t. That's what keeps people alive.
Max says: Girl, what are you doing?
Jennifer says: Watching TV.
Max says: Why don't you read a book? You watch too much damn TV.
Jennifer says: Research.
Max says: Oh, right. You're gonna be a TV star.
Jennifer says: Wait and see.
Max says: Well, if Simms catches you up here after lights out she is gonna chew my ass...
Jennifer says: I gotta stay up, Max!
Max says: Jennifer.
Jennifer says: Just tonight, please? I can't handle the nightmare. Not after Phillip. Not tonight.
Max says: Okay. But I never saw you.
Jennifer says: Thanks Max.
Weir says: Do you see ?!
Weir says: Do You See?!
Weir says: DO YOU SEE?!?!
Captain Miller says: Yes. I see. "Presses detonator switch"
Captain Miller says: Yes. I see. [Presses detonator switch]
Morpheus says: do you think thats air your breathing?
Morpheus says: Do you think thats air you're breathing now?
Morpheus says: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Ike Turner says: "Eat the Cake Anna-Mae"
Ike Turner says: Eat the Cake Anna-Mae.
Morpheus says: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Noland says: They can hear you. Smell you. They see you.
Morpheus says: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
Morpheus says: What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.