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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's 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 on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
Laurence Fishburne
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for Dantrell Francis in Bad Mother F$%^er (1999)
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(Some characters may have a description when you click into them) Five years after the blood-soaked events of Pulp Fiction, Jules Winnfield has traded his pistol for a Bible, wandering America as a self-proclaimed servant of God. Now calling himself Reverend Jules, he drifts from dusty backroads to rundown towns, preaching redemption to the broken and lost while searching for the peace he’s convinced the Lord promised him. But redemption doesn’t come easy for a man with that much blood on his hands. When his past life resurfaces in the form of vengeful gangsters, corrupt lawmen, and an old associate who refuses to stay buried, Jules finds himself torn between the preacher he’s trying to be and the killer he used to be. As violence shadows his every step, Jules faces a brutal test of faith—forced to confront not just his enemies, but his own capacity for wrath. The road to salvation turns crimson when Jules picks up the gun he swore he’d never touch again, realizing that forgiveness sometimes comes only after fire and fury. In a world where sin is currency and morality bends to survival, Bad Mother F$%^er (an R-rated spiritual neo-noir) explores whether a man like Jules Winnfield can ever truly walk the earth without leaving bodies behind.
