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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).
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Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Lucasfilm. Directed by George Lucas, who wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman, it features an ensemble cast including Paul Walker, Kiera Knightley, David Tennant, Christopher Judge and Hayden Christensen as the titular Guardians, along with Ralph Fiennes, Ron Perlman, Natalie Portman, Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Matthew McConaughey, Doug Jones, Laurence Fishburne and James Earl Jones. In the film, Peter Quill and a group of extraterrestrial criminals go on the run after stealing a powerful artifact. Guardians of the Galaxy premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on August 21, 2008, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 1. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $773.3 million worldwide and becoming the second highest-grossing superhero film of 2008, as well as the third-highest-grossing film of 2008. It was praised for its screenplay, direction, acting, humor, soundtrack, visual effects and action sequences.
