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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).
Three years ago, Batman and Superman met in a Penguin attack on a Wayne Companies event covered by the Daily Planet. In the present, Superman deals with the repercussions of his fight against Zod, Lex Luthor public campaign against him and the problems in his relationship with Lois, while investigating the billionaire. Bruce, who has been acting as Batman for more or less a decade, investigates, together with Robin (Jason Todd), Luthor's business in Gotham, arriving at a supposed abandoned warehouse, which turns out to be a secret laboratory belonging to Professor Ivo, finding his latest invention, the android Amazo. Frustrated with the way Luthor treats him, Ivo uses Amazo to attack him and show that he is superior, sending Amazo to LexCorp in Metropolis, which USA ends up involving Superman in the situation, who despite his dislike for Luthor, would not let anyone be hurt. However, things get complicated when Amazo proves to be capable of copying other people's skills, copying the hero's power. Batman and Superman join forces to face the android, which proves to be a much greater threat than imagined, even for its creator.
