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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
The Architect
for The Architect in Wonder Woman: All the Gods I've Buried
Suggested by mr95
The Olympian council, reconstituted after the events of Film III, makes Diana a formal offer: full ascension to divine status, a seat among the gods, and permanent return to Themyscira. It is everything she was offered when she first left the island and refused. Hippolyta, alive and present for the first time in the modern era, has come in person to ask her. Diana has twenty-four hours to decide. In those twenty-four hours, three things happen simultaneously: a global infrastructure attack of supernatural origin — traced to a mortal cult that has been weaponising abandoned divine power since the gods withdrew — reaches its critical phase and requires Diana's response; Callum Reyes is caught in the attack zone; and Erion reappears, not as an enemy but as the only being who can help Diana stop the cult, at a cost Erion names plainly. The film is structured as a single day. By the end of it, Diana makes the choice that defines the next chapter of her story. The choice is not the one the audience expects.
