Age: 64
male
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
Willard Kane
for Willard Kane in The S.C.P Foundation: The Sculpture
Suggested by misterwolf
The S.C.P Foundation: The Sculpture is a 2025 American science fiction action film based on SCP-173 / The Sculpture. It was produced by Legendary Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment and written by Ridley Scott and Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Matt Reeves, co-produced by Zack Snyder, and edited by James Wan, the film stars Lauren Cohan, Vera Farmiga, Jude Law, Norman Reedus, Donald Glover, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danai Gurira, Laurie Holden, David Harbour, and Laurence Fishburne. Alice is told of an S.C.P creature called the Sculpture, known scientifically as SCP-173. She heads out to seek the help of her sister Carol and others so she can succeed in capturing or killing the creature. The Sculpture premiered in Los Angeles on January 5th, 2025; releasing on February 16th, the film received generally positive reviews, with praise for the action sequences, visual effects, and Cohan's performance. It was also a financial success like the other two films, grossing $987 million worldwide against its break-even point of $146 million. A sequel entitled The S.C.P Foundation: The Last Hunt was released a year later.
