Laurence Fishburne

Also Credited As:

Larry Fishburne, Laurence John Fishburne
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Biography

A versatile performer equally adept at playing both hero and villain, actor Laurence Fishburne emerged on the scene after famously lying about his age to Francis Ford Coppola in order to land a prominent part in the director's seminal "Apocalypse Now" (1979). Though he struggled in small parts over the ensuing decade, Fishburne came into his own as a father trying to keep his son out of the gang life in "Boyz n the Hood" (1991). After richly …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Music

Born

Laurence John Fishburne on July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia, USA

LATEST CREDITS

The Tuskegee Airmen

Hannibal Lee

Boyz N The Hood

Furious Styles

Deep Cover

Russell Stevens Jr/John Q Hull

Biker Boyz

Manuel "Smoke" Galloway

The Alchemist

Actor

Event Horizon

Miller

Five Fingers

Ahmat

Fled

Piper

The Soul of a Man

Narrator

Tortured

Actor

A Queer Kind of Death

Pharoah Love

School Daze

Dap Dunlap

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Narrator

Black Water Transit

Jack Vermilion

Once in the Life

20/20 Mike

Akeelah and the Bee

Dr Joshua Larabee

Who Killed Martin Luther King?

Host

Hoodlum

Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson

Always Outnumbered

Socrates Fortlow

Othello

Othello

Thurgood

Thurgood Marshall

Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith

Actor

The Colony

Actor

Just Cause

Tanny Brown

Bad Company

Nelson Crowe