Age: 64
male
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
Perry White
for Perry White in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Suggested by castingsinmyblood
The movie opens with Clark Kent reading about the Bat of Gotham which leads to him doing a paper on the Bat's lethal brand of justice. Meanwhile Bruce Wayne keeps having the same dream over and over again of a man coming through a portal and telling him Lois Lane is the key. Eventually Bruce and Clark meet at a party hosted by the richest man in Metropolis Lex Luthor who has been trying to find a way to weaponize a mineral he found on a crashed Kryptonian ship from Man of Steel that has the ability to cut Zod so that he can create a being made of the mineral to kill Superman. Eventually after some persuading Lex manages to convince the Batman who is spending some time in Metropolis that Superman is a threat and if he were to become evil he would kill them all. So eventually Batman and Superman fight giving Lex time to create a monster called Doomsday out of the mineral and sends it to kill Superman. During the fight Superman and Batman are interrupted by a woman who was at Lex's party with them named Diana Price aka Wonder Woman. After the fight is over Doomsday shows up. The fight ends with Superman sacrificing himself to kill Doomsday which ends in Superman's death. The movie ends with Bruce travelling to Norway to meet with a man named Arthur Curry.
