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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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The Phantom Wolf is a 2025 American revisionist Western film directed by Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the screenplay and the story with Joe Carnahan and Jerry Bruckheimer, and produced by James Mangold and Quentin Tarantino. The first installment in the Wyoming's Wolf film series, distributed by Lionsgate, and set in 1855, the film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Hathaway (in the title role), Michael Rooker, Lucas Black, Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown, Laurence Fishburne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Viola Davis, Don Johnson, Christoph Waltz, and Robert Downey Jr., and it follows a legendary bounty hunter as she is approached by another, who offers to help her kill the people responsible for the deaths of her family and the kidnapping of her sister if she helps him first to rescue a group of slaves, to which she agrees. The Phantom Wolf was released in theaters on March 1st, 2025. The film was a financial box-office success, grossing $921 million worldwide; it became the highest-grossing western film of all time and surpassed Django Unchained. It received critical and universal acclaim, mainly for the action sequences, visuals, story, Hans Zimmer's score and Hathaway's performance, but its graphic violence and usage of racist words drew controversy. The film overall was deemed an emotional wreck, namely for its heartbreaking ending. A prequel entitled The Phantom Wolf: Russell is scheduled to be released on October 8th, 2026, while a proper sequel is also in development.
