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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
Nick Fury. Jr
for Nick Fury. Jr in The New Avengers: Civil War
Suggested by dhruvsharma
When tensions heat up between Wakanda and Atlantis the Avengers are sent to handle it but when things escalate because of the Avengers and Queen Rolanda of Wakanda is killed the Avengers are issued by the government to be put in check under the Wakanda Accords. Throughout the movie Ironman opts to stay with the government because Black Panther is his personal threat and Captain America was created by the government. Tony however decides to stay away from all of it and not sign the accords causing the government to send the heroes who did sign after the ones who didn't. On Captain America's team there is him, Hulk, Bucky, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Scarlet Witch. Meanwhile on Tony's team there is him, Wolverine, Vision, Thor, Captain Marvel, and Doctor Strange. The movie ends with Tony and Steve fighting in a crashing plane Tony was trying to escape on after Hulk busted his armor. Captain America manages to get Tony on the ground and is about to kill him but remembers what he is doing. This movie deals with Steve after years of serving one government having to come to terms with the fact that he isn't in the same world as before. Steve throughout the movie has to grapple with the corruption of the country he's named after and eventually he decides to join Tony's side even if it means the Avengers, are now criminals.
