Actor

Laurence
Fishburne

Broadway: Thurgood (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award; also at the Kennedy Center), Two Trains Running (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Theatre World Award; also Ahmanson at the Doolittle), The Lion in Winter. Film: Armored, 21, Bobby, Akeelah and the Bee (with Angela Bassett/also producer), Mission Impossible III, Assault on Precinct 13 (with Ethan Hawke), The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions, Mystic River (directed by Clint Eastwood, with Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden), Biker Boyz, Once in the Life (wrote, directed and starred in), Always Outnumbered (for HBO, by Walter Mosley), Event Horizon (with Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson), Hoodlum (starred in and produced), Fled, Othello, What’s Love Got to do With It (as Ike Turner, Oscar), Bad Company (with Ellen Barkin), Higher Learning (written and directed by John Singleton, NAACP Award), Just Cause (with Sean Connery), The Color Purple, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Deep Cover (with Jeff Goldblum), Boyz in the Hood (written and directed by John Singleton), Cadence (directed by Martin Sheen), Apocalypse Now, Cornbread, Earl and Me, Class Action, King of New York, Red Heat, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Cotton Club, Rumble Fish. Television: Tribeca (Emmy Award), Miss Evers’ Boys (for HBO, Emmy nomination Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special, NAACP Award, executive producer, Emmy Award Outstanding Made For Television Movie, President’s Award), Tuskegee Airmen (for HBO, NAACP and Golden Globe Awards), PeeWee’s Playhouse (as Cowboy Curtis), One Life to Live, Decoration Day (Hallmark Hall of Fame), For Us The Living (PBS), Rumor of War and more.