Laurence Fishburne
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).
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Laurence Fishburne Movies
Discover the best Laurence Fishburne movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Laurence Fishburne ranked by year and score.
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Gatto (2027)
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Nero, a black cat navigating Venice's waterlogged streets and superstitious inhabitants, owes debts to the city's ruthless feline underworld. As he contemplates whether his nine lives have amounted to anything...
Score
-.-
2
The Amateur (2025)
Action
Thriller
When a London bombing claims his wife, a reclusive intelligence analyst discovers his employers have no interest in justice. Armed with linguistic brilliance and nothing left to lose, he abandons...
Score
6.9
3
Megalopolis (2024)
Drama
Fantasy
Science Fiction
New Rome gleams with classical grandeur and modern rot in equal measure. At its center stands Cesar Catilina, an architect who can stop time and wants to reshape civilization itself...
Score
5.2
4
Transformers One (2024)
Adventure
Animation
Family
Before they became icons of their warring factions, Optimus Prime and Megatron shared an unbreakable bond on Cybertron. This animated prequel traces how two inseparable friends diverged into bitter enemies,...
Score
8.0
5
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Action
Crime
Thriller
John Wick has found a theoretical exit from the criminal syndicate that has hunted him across continents, but the price is staggering. A formidable new adversary, backed by allies embedded...
Score
7.7
6
All the Old Knives (2022)
Mystery
Thriller
A CIA operation gone catastrophically wrong left over a hundred people dead, and someone on the inside passed the information that sealed their fate. Years later, veteran operative Henry Pelham...
Score
6.0
7
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Thomas Anderson is a successful video game designer living a comfortable, medicated life in San Francisco, haunted by dreams he cannot quite explain. When reality begins to crack at the...
Score
6.3
8
Running with the Devil (2019)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
When a carefully orchestrated drug shipment falls apart somewhere between the mountains of Colombia and the streets of the United States, a cartel boss dispatches two of his most dangerous...
Score
5.4
9
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Fourteen million dollars is a lot of motivation. Declared excommunicado by the High Table after breaking its most sacred rule, John Wick finds every contract killer on the planet suddenly...
Score
7.4
10
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Scott Lang is days away from completing house arrest when Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne pull him back into the fold with a mission that could rewrite everything. The...
Score
6.9
11
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Barely out of the chaos that consumed the first film, John Wick finds himself dragged back in by an old debt he cannot refuse. A blood oath compels him to...
Score
7.3
12
Passengers (2016)
Drama
Romance
Science Fiction
Ninety years before their destination comes into view, Jim and Aurora find themselves the only conscious souls aboard a colossal colony ship carrying five thousand sleeping passengers. What begins as...
Score
7.0
13
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Two icons of justice find themselves on opposite sides of the same question: who gets to decide how power is used? Bruce Wayne, haunted by the destruction Superman unleashed on...
Score
6.0
14
Rudderless (2014)
Comedy
Drama
Music
When a father clears out his son's belongings after a sudden death, he finds something unexpected: a stack of demo recordings and lyrics that reveal a creative spark he never...
Score
7.2
15
Ride Along (2014)
Action
Comedy
Ben's been orbiting the fringes of Detective James's life for two years, a security guard convinced that one ride-along shift will finally prove his worth. What he doesn't know is...
Score
6.3
16
Man of Steel (2013)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Clark Kent has spent his whole life hiding. Raised in the Kansas heartland by parents who urged caution, he carries the knowledge that he is something the world has never...
Score
6.6
17
The Colony (2013)
Action
Science Fiction
Thriller
When an endless winter blankets the planet, humanity's last refuge is a claustrophobic underground colony where resources dwindle and paranoia spreads. A group of survivors must navigate not just the...
Score
5.5
18
Contagion (2011)
Drama
Science Fiction
Thriller
A deadly virus moves silently from one continent to the next, killing its hosts within days. Steven Soderbergh's procedural thriller tracks the outbreak through the eyes of scientists, bureaucrats, grieving...
Score
6.6
19
Predators (2010)
Action
Science Fiction
Thriller
Seven elite assassins and mercenaries awaken in a dense jungle with no memory of how they arrived. As they navigate this hostile terrain, they realize they've become prey for an...
Score
6.3
20
21 (2008)
Crime
Drama
A brilliant MIT student sees an escape route from his working-class struggles when a smooth-talking professor offers him a seat at an exclusive table. The game is blackjack, the players...
Score
6.7
21
Bobby (2006)
Drama
Los Angeles, June 1968. At the Ambassador Hotel, a doorman, a manager, a singer, a busboy, and a beautician navigate their small dramas and large hopes on an ordinary day...
Score
6.4
22
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Drama
Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson can spell almost anything, but convincing the people around her that she belongs on a bigger stage is harder than any word in the dictionary. Pushed forward...
Score
7.0
23
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Ethan Hunt thought he'd left the spy game behind, content to mentor the next generation at the IMF. But the emergence of Owen Davian, a ruthless arms dealer with a...
Score
6.8
24
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Zion, the last refuge of free humanity, faces annihilation as thousands of machines bore through the earth toward its gates. While soldiers and civilians mount a desperate last stand underground,...
Score
6.7
25
Mystic River (2003)
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Three Boston men share a single formative wound from childhood, one they never fully processed and never openly discussed. Decades later, a brutal murder pulls them back into each other's...
Score
7.7
26
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Zion is under siege, and the machines are tunneling toward humanity's last city with brutal efficiency. Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity have 72 hours to locate the Keymaker, a figure who...
Score
7.1
27
Biker Boyz (2003)
Action
Drama
Manuel Galloway runs the roads of California with the kind of authority that earns a nickname: King of Cali. By day, the men in his crew wear pressed shirts and...
Score
6.3
28
The Matrix (1999)
Action
Science Fiction
Thomas Anderson is a software drone by day and a black-market hacker by night, living with the nagging sense that something about reality is deeply wrong. When a mysterious woman...
Score
8.2
29
Event Horizon (1997)
Horror
Mystery
Science Fiction
Seven years after the experimental starship Event Horizon vanished without explanation, a rescue crew is dispatched to investigate its sudden reappearance near Neptune. What they find aboard is not a...
Score
6.6
30
Miss Evers’ Boys (1997)
Drama
History
TV Movie
In 1932 Alabama, a Black nurse becomes caught between her Hippocratic oath and government authority when she realizes the rural patients under her care are unwilling participants in a syphilis...
Score
6.5
31
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Drama
A chess prodigy's emerging talent triggers a parental crisis. His father, newly obsessed with the game, wants to cultivate a champion. His mother worries that relentless coaching will steal something...
Score
7.1
32
Cadence (1990)
Drama
After a drunk and disorderly incident lands a young white soldier in a military stockade, he finds himself the only white face among a group of Black inmates. What could...
Score
6.7
33
King of New York (1990)
Crime
Thriller
Frank White walks out of prison with nothing but ambition and a philosophy. Back on the streets of New York, he systematically dismantles every rival operation in his path, funneling...
Score
6.8
34
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Fantasy
Horror
Thriller
The last surviving children of Elm Street have been committed to a psychiatric ward, their nightmares dismissed as symptoms by doctors who don't know any better. When Nancy Thompson returns,...
Score
6.7
35
Rumble Fish (1983)
Crime
Drama
Romance
Rusty James drifts through a dying gang culture, chasing a version of toughness that no longer exists. His older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, was once a legend on these streets,...
Score
7.0
36
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Drama
War
Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard has a new assignment the Army will never officially acknowledge: travel deep into the jungle and kill a decorated Special Forces officer who has gone rogue....
Score
8.3
37
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Drama
When police shoot and kill a promising young basketball star by mistake, the ripple effects tear through an entire Black neighborhood. Adapted from Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, this 1975...
Score
6.7
Laurence Fishburne TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Laurence Fishburne TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Laurence Fishburne.
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The Witcher (2019)
Action & Adventure
Drama
Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a solitary figure enhanced by ancient magic and trained since childhood to kill creatures that haunt the dark corners of the Continent. He takes...
Score
7.9
2
Hannibal (2013)
Crime
Drama
Will Graham can reconstruct any crime scene from the inside out, inhabiting a killer's perspective so completely that the line between hunter and hunted grows dangerously thin. When FBI agent...
Score
8.2
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Laurence Fishburne?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Laurence Fishburne are Gatto, The Amateur, and Megalopolis.
How many movies and TV shows has Laurence Fishburne starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 39 titles starring Laurence Fishburne, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Laurence Fishburne worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Laurence Fishburne maintains a strong average user rating of 6.8 out of 10 across all tracked titles.