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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
Perry White
for Perry White in Superman: Man of Steel
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After returning from Smallville, Clark finds himself in an incredible moment of his life, if not the best. With Luthor imprisoned, metacrimes have decreased in Metropolis, giving him more time to help people in everyday situations and to be Clark Kent. Speaking of Clark Kent, he is engaged to the woman he loves. However, all this peace and normalcy he is experiencing has a name and surname to end: Sam Lane. Not everyone disagrees with Luthor's way of thinking, seeing the imprisonment of the richest man in Metropolis as an attack on Superman's influence and power. Sam Lane is one of them, Lois's father, who has moved permanently to Metropolis due to the recent activities in the city, but in reality, he is going there to contain the threat of Superman. He is also not at all happy about his daughter's engagement. While he can't deal with the fact that his daughter is engaged to a country bumpkin, he can think and work to deal with Superman in some way. Using an old Luthor project called Metallo and a former soldier, now a mercenary, called Bloodsport.
