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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
Captain Ray Snyder
for Captain Ray Snyder in Missing
Suggested by cman77
in 1999, The Baltimore police department are called about the disappearance of Hae Ling, a local 18 year old Asian girl, who has been missing for 3 days. They send their best detective on the case, Jack Vance, Jack interviews a few students and faculty members of Woodlawn high school after a dozen interviews Jack still has no until he receives an anonymous tip on the Whereabouts of Hae's body, they exclaim that the body was dumped in the woods. After contemplation Jack checks the woods and sure enough it was but as he's about to report the body, he encounters a group of drug traffickers who are there to collect Hae's body, they ask Jack if he was the new recruit and he says yes. Jack discovers a large underground drug trafficking ring, which has been under everyone's noses the whole time, Jack must singlehandedly take down the operation from the inside, all while making sure to keep his cover from the leader and infamous drug lord, Santiago Almada. (Loosely based on the real life murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999).
