This block contains the information about Laurence Fishburne and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Laurence Fishburne is an actor who is performing both, in the theater and in the cinema; also he is writing drama scenarios and is also a producer. He is the star of a cult movie “The Matrix” in which he performed the role of Neo’s mentor. He got a few “Tony” and “Emmy” awards for its performance. Also he was nominated for an Oscar once. He was born in the end of July 1961 in Augusta, which is located in the Georgia state. His mother Hattie Bell was a teacher of mathematics in the school, while his father was a inspector in the police. After his parents divorced, Laurence together with his mother relocated to New York, where he graduated the Lincoln Academy. Fishburne started performing since he was 12, his first role he got in 1973 after performing in “One life to live” TV show. One of his brightest roles was the role in the movie “Wheat, Earl and I” where he performed the role of a whiteness of a murder. In the popular movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which was called “Apocalypse Today” he got a small role of a sailor boy. In the eighties he performed mostly on the television and made his first steps on the theater stage in New York. He performed a small role in Steven Spielberg’s movie “The flowers of the lilac fields”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Laurence Fishburne acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Mission: Impossible III - Theodore Brassel	$150M	2006	$47.7M	$133M
4: Rise of the Silver Surfer - The Silver Surfer (voice)	$130M	2007	$58.1M	$132M
The Matrix Reloaded - Morpheus	$127M	2003	$91.8M	$281M
The Matrix Revolutions - Morpheus	$110M	2003	$48.5M	$139M
Osmosis Jones - Thrax (voice)	$75M	2001	$5.27M	$13.6M
The Matrix - Morpheus	$63M	1999	$27.8M	$171M
The Cotton Club - Bumpy Rhodes (as Larry Fishburne)	$58M	1984		$25.9M
Event Horizon - Captain Miller	$50M	1997	$9.51M	$26.6M
Predators - Noland	$40M	2010	$24.8M	$52M
21 - Cole Williams	$35M	2008	$24.1M	$81.2M
TMNT - Narrator (voice)	$34M	2007	$24.3M	$54.1M
Apocalypse Now - Tyrone 'Clean' Miller (as Larry Fishburne)	$31.5M	1979	$97K	$78.8M
Mystic River - Whitey Powers	$30M	2003	$641K	$90.1M
Fled - Piper	$25M	1996	$5.41M	$17.1M
Black Water Transit - Jack, Executive Producer	$23M	2009
The Death and Life of Bobby Z - Tad Gruzsa	$22M	2007
Armored - Baines	$20M	2009	$6.51M	$16M
Assault on Precinct 13 - Marion Bishop	$20M	2005	$6.5M	$20M
The Color Purple - Swain (as Larry Fishburne)	$15M	1985		$94.2M
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited)	$15M	2005	$181K	$4.24M