| Laurence Fishburne  AKA Laurence Fishburne III
Born: 30-Jul-1961
Birthplace: Augusta, GA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Matrix Laurence Fishburne began acting on stage at the age of 10. He appeared on One Life to Live beginning at the age of 13, playing a street kid who sold illegal drugs but wised up when he was adopted by loving black parents. It was the early 1970s, and Fishburne's TV family was the first African-American family storyline on a soap opera. At 14, he made his film debut in Cornbread, Earl and Me, with Rosalind Cash and Bernie Casey. At 16, he lied about his age to get a role as a baby-faced soldier in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and spent a year with Martin Sheen and Dennis Hopper, filming in the Philippines.
Fishburne's later roles include Midget in Coppola's Rumble Fish, Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee's Playhouse, Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s father in Boyz n the Hood, a loathsome Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It, and of course, Morpheus in The Matrix and its sequels. On Broadway, he played King Henry II in The Lion in Winter, and won a Tony for his 1992 role in Two Trains Running. He has been Emmy-nominated four times, winning twice, and was Oscar-nominated for What's Love Got to Do with It. Father: Laurence Fishburne Sr. (prison guard)
Mother: Hattie Fishburne (school teacher)
Wife: Hajna O. Moss (casting agent, b. 1963, m. 1985, div., two children)
Son: Langston Fishburne (b. 1987 with Moss)
Daughter: Montana Fishburne (b. 1991 with Moss)
Wife: Gina Torres (actress, b. 1969, m. 20-Sep-2002)
High School: Hollywood High School, Hollywood, CA
Endorsement of DirecTV 2003
National Film Preservation Foundation Board of Directors
TELEVISION
One Life to Live Josh Hall (street kid, 1973-76)
Pee-wee's Playhouse Cowboy Curtis (1986-90)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Once in the Life (27-Oct-2000)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
21 (7-Mar-2008)
The Death and Life of Bobby Z (18-Jun-2007)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (13-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
TMNT (22-Mar-2007) Narrator [VOICE]
Bobby (5-Sep-2006)
Mission: Impossible III (3-May-2006)
Five Fingers (1-May-2006)
Akeelah and the Bee (11-Feb-2006)
Assault on Precinct 13 (19-Jan-2005)
The Matrix Revolutions (27-Oct-2003)
Mystic River (23-May-2003)
The Matrix Reloaded (7-May-2003)
Biker Boyz (31-Jan-2003)
Osmosis Jones (7-Aug-2001) [VOICE]
Welcome to Hollywood (27-Oct-2000) Himself
Once in the Life (27-Oct-2000)
The Matrix (31-Mar-1999)
Always Outnumbered (21-Mar-1998)
Hoodlum (27-Aug-1997)
Event Horizon (15-Aug-1997)
Miss Evers' Boys (22-Feb-1997)
Fled (19-Jul-1996)
Othello (15-Dec-1995)
The Tuskegee Airmen (26-Aug-1995)
Just Cause (17-Feb-1995)
Bad Company (20-Jan-1995)
Higher Learning (11-Jan-1995)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (11-Aug-1993)
What's Love Got to Do with It (9-Jun-1993)
Deep Cover (15-Apr-1992)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (May-1991) Himself
Class Action (15-Mar-1991)
Cadence (18-Jan-1991)
Boyz N the Hood (16-Jan-1991)
Decoration Day (2-Dec-1990)
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990) [VOICE]
King of New York (18-Jul-1990)
Red Heat (14-Jun-1988)
School Daze (12-Feb-1988)
Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse (1988)
Cherry 2000 (26-Nov-1987)
Gardens of Stone (8-May-1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (27-Feb-1987)
Band of the Hand (11-Apr-1986)
Quicksilver (14-Feb-1986)
The Color Purple (18-Dec-1985)
The Cotton Club (14-Dec-1984)
Rumble Fish (21-Oct-1983)
Death Wish II (20-Feb-1982)
A Rumor of War (24-Sep-1980)
Apocalypse Now (15-Aug-1979)
Fast Break (2-Mar-1979)
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Official Website:
http://www.laurence-fishburne.com/
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