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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
Larry Kress
for Larry Kress in The Howling Death: New Blood
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The Howling Death: New Blood is a 2029 American action thriller film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, the producer of the film’s predecessors, written by David Twohy, and produced by Legendary Pictures and del Toro. It is the fifth installment in The Chronicles of Mister Wolf film series, as well as the direct sequel to The Blood Wolf, which had initially concluded the series. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård and Emma Stone who reprise their roles from the previous films, with John Krasinski, Tyrese Gibson, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Laurence Fishburne also returning, and they are joined by Taissa Farmiga, Everleigh McDonell, Demián Bichir, and Colin Farrell. It follows a rookie cop who is left behind in a snowy forest by her corrupt squad, only to be saved by Marcus Black. Both want to kill the cops, and they join forces with Larry Kress, who Black thought to be dead, and they begin to hunt the cops. New Blood opened in theaters on January 19th, 2029; it received generally positive reviews with praise for the thrills, del Toro’s direction, the action sequences, and Skarsgård and Farmiga’s performances, but criticism for its needlessly similar story and graphic violence. It was also a financial success like the rest of the films, grossing $918 million worldwide. A sequel is in development.
