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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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for Arthur Willis in The Bounty of Ryder Part IV: Road of Redemption
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The Bounty of Ryder Part IV: Road of Redemption is a 2027 American Western action film written, co-produced, and directed by Jodie Foster and the fourth installment in the Chronicles of Charlotte Ryder film series. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Lionsgate Films, it is a back-to-back sequel to The Bounty of Ryder Part III: Blood or High Honor and the second follow-up to be set after the events of the first film. The film stars Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charley Ryder, alongside Piper Rubio, Matthew McConaughey, Christopher Judge, Javier Bardem, Pedro Pascal, Donald Glover, Ben Foster, Domhnall Gleeson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurence Fishburne, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Charley must protect her adoptive daughter Maisie Arizona-Ryder and team up with her old allies and an unlikely one to hunt down a Mexican outlaw who is carrying out a massacre in Wyoming. The Bounty of Ryder Part IV: Road of Redemption opened in theaters on December 5th, 2027; the film received universal acclaim from critics and audiences for its action, performances and emotional weight, and grossed $1.01 billion worldwide at the box-office. Despite breaking even of its $260 million budget and performing more than well enough for further films, as well as becoming the franchise's second-highest-grossing film, it had several competitions that forced Lionsgate into labeling it a box-office bomb. A sequel, The Bounty of Ryder: A Journey's End — Chapter I, was released the following year, while a final film is also in development.
