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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
Alpha Trion
for Alpha Trion in Transformers One (Broadway)
Suggested by efrainflores
The mechanical planet of Cybertron was once home to a thriving society of Mechanical Life Forms known as Cybertronians, led by the Primes. Unfortunately, war with an invading race called the Quintessons resulted in the defeat of the Primes, the loss of the Matrix of Leadership, and sent the survivors to live underground. The disappearance of the Matrix resulted in the loss of the planet's life-sustaining Energon, requiring it to be manually extracted by Miners, a subgroup of Cybertronians who cannot transform and are treated as nobodies as a result. When two Miners, Orion Pax and D-16, learn of a distress call on the surface, they recruit two others and travel to its source in hopes of finding the Matrix. There, they learn what really happened in the Quintesson war, acquire the ability to transform, and set out to save their world... but their journey has a detrimental impact on D-16, which will send the fate of Cybertron — and his friendship with Orion — down a more turbulent path.
