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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).
Razor in the Dark is a 2027 American urban fantasy action thriller film based on the Mortal Kombat character Kitana created by Ed Boon, produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by New Line Cinema. It is the first installment in the Mortal Kombat Tournament Universe. Directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Boon, Simon McQuoid, and Jeremy Slater, the film stars Paris Jackson as Kitana, alongside Elle Fanning, Milla Jovovich, Isaiah Washington, Kevin Durand, Jensen Ackles, Brian Tee, Mark Dacascos, Ben Wang, Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, and Alexander Skarsgård. In the film, a self-imposed exiled Kitana, who has earned a reputation as an assassin, reluctantly comes out of hiding to fight against her evil stepfather Shao Kahn's quest to wipe out all realms and rebuild them in his own image after she is approached by Raiden and later discovers herself to have been chosen by the Elder Gods to fight. Razor in the Dark had its world premiere at the 84th Venice International Film Festival on November 1st, 2027; opening in theaters on November 25th, the film received generally positive reviews from fans and critics alike, who praised Jackson's performance and grounded take on several characters, as well as its action sequences and reimagining of the central character's origin. It was also a box-office success, becoming the highest-grossing Mortal Kombat film of all time after it earned $716 million worldwide. A sequel entitled Mortal Kombat: Champion of the Gods was released one year later.
