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
Superman: Man of Steel
for Superman: Man of Steel in What if there was a DCCU instead of a MCU
Suggested by nehemyluntumusangana
The DC Cinematic Universe (DCCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by DC Studios. The films are based on characters that appear in American comic books published by DC Comics. The franchise also includes television series, short films, digital series, and literature. The shared universe, much like the original DC Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters. DC Studios releases its films in groups called "Phases", with the first three phases collectively known as "The Apokolips Saga" and the following three phases as "The Infinite Earths Saga". The first DCCU film, Superman: Man of Steel (2008), began Phase One hich culminated in the 2012 crossover film Justice League. Phase Two began with Superman: Warworld (2013) and concluded with The Atom (2015), while Phase Three began with Batman: Injustice (2016) and concluded with Blue Beetle: Shifting Grounds (2019). Black Canary (2021) is the first film in Phase Four, which concluded with Aquaman: Kingdoms at War (2022), while Phase Five began with The Atom and Bumblebee: Quantumania (2023) and will conclude with Suicide Squad* (2025). Phase Six will begin with The Terrifics: The First Leap (2025) and it will conclude with Justice League: Armageddon (2026) and Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (2027).
