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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
Sentinel Prime
for Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Space Bridge
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Transformers: Space Bridge is a 2027 American science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Zack Snyder, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Spielberg and Blomkamp, based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Devastator and the third installment and penultimate film in the Cybertron Quadrilogy. The ensemble cast includes Peter Cullen, Sasha Calle, Jeffrey Combs, Idris Elba, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Nash, John Cena, Katherine Waterston, Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne, and Josh Brolin. In the film, Optimus Prime and his second-in-command Windblade must battle the evil Shockwave in the wake of his creation of the space bridge. Transformers: Space Bridge was released on December 3rd, 2027; it received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, the former deeming it as an improvement over the previous film, with praise for its story, direction, screenplay, performances (particularly Cullen, Calle, Irons, and Brolin), action sequences, visual effects, and musical score. It was deemed one of the best of the quadrilogy, though its ending was harshly criticized. It was also a financial success like the first two films, grossing $916 million worldwide against a budget of $167 million and a break-even point of $260 million. A sequel entitled Transformers: Cybertron Falls was released one year later and concluded the storyline.
