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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).
Blizzard is a 2025 American neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Verbinski from a story by Joe Carnahan. A co-production between Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry, it is the first installment in the Blizzard film series. The film stars Sasha Calle, with Dafne Keen, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Norman Reedus, Nicholas Hoult, Maribel Verdú, and Ian McShane in supporting roles. It follows a survivalist (Calle), who suffers from survivor's guilt, as she willingly agrees to take in a young Spanish girl (Keen) twice her own youth to protect her from her cruel and abusive father (Shannon) at the behest of the child's terminally ill mother (Verdú). Blizzard opened in theaters on December 8th, 2025; the film received generally positive reviews, with Calle's performance receiving the highest praise, and many complimented the visual style, direction, themes, action sequences, and the score, though the film's graphic violence and implications of rape drew controversy. It was widely considered a comeback in Verbinski's career, which had declined in 2019. It was also a box-office success, grossing $571 million worldwide against a $1.4 million budget. A sequel is currently in development with Calle and Keen set to return.
