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Laurence Fishburne (born July 30, 1961 in Augusta,
Georgia, United States|USA) is a notable
African-American film|movie actor.

Laurence Fishburne started acting at the age of
12, getting his big break portraying Joshua Hall
on the American Broadcasting Company|ABC soap
opera, One Life to Live in 1973.  Fishburne later
earned a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's
"Apocalypse Now", as well as a recurring role as
"Cowboy Curtis" alongside Pee Wee Herman (Paul
Reubens) in the CBS children's television show,
"Pee-Wee's Playhouse". However, it was his 1991
role in "Boyz N The Hood" that gained him lasting
recognition as an outstanding actor. The next
year, Fishburne won a Tony Award for his stage
performance in August Wilson's Two Trains Running,
which was followed by an Academy Award|Oscar
nomination one year later for his impersonation of
Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It?. Also
in 1992 he received an Emmy Award for an episode
of the short-lived television|TV series Tribeca.
Nowadays Fishburne is best known for his role as
Morpheus (Matrix character)|Morpheus, the
hacker-mentor of Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the
blockbuster science fiction movie series "The
Matrix."

Fishburne married actress Hajna O. Moss in 1985
and had two children with her, a son named
Langston (born 1987) and a daughter named Montana
(born 1991); however, the couple got divorced
during the 1990s, and on September 20 2002,
Fishburne married another actress, Gina Torres. 
Fishburne is a notable graduate of Hollywood High
School.

== Filmography ==
=== Actor ===
* Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 movie)|Assault on
Precinct 13 (2005)
* The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 
* Mystic River (movie)|Mystic River (2003)
* The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
* Biker Boyz (2003) 
* Deep Cover / Chill Factor (2001) 
* Osmosis Jones (2001) 
* Once in the Life (2000) 
* The Matrix (1999)
* Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1998) 
* Event Horizon (1997) 
* Hoodlum (1997) 
* Miss Evers' Boys (1997) 
* Fled (1996) 
* The Tuskegee Airmen (1996) 
* Bad Company (1995) 
* Just Cause (1995) 
* Othello (1995 movie)|Othello (1995) 
* Alien Warrior (1994) 
* Higher Learning (1994) 
* Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) 
* What's Love Got to Do With It? (1993) 
* Deep Cover (1992) 
* Boyz N the Hood (1991) 
* Class Action (1991) 
* Decoration Day (1990) 
* King of New York (1990) 
* Cadence (1989)
* Red Heat (1988) (As Larry Fishburne) 
* Gardens of Stone (1987) 
* A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors
(1987) 
* Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 1-4 (1987) 
* Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 5-8 (1987) 
* School Daze (1987) 
* Quicksilver (1986) 
* The Color Purple (1985)
* The Cotton Club (1984) 
* For Us, the Living - The Story of Medgar Evers
(1983) 
* Rumble Fish (1983) 
* Willie & Phil (1980) 
* Apocalypse Now (1979) 
* Fast Break (1979) 
* Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
* Deathwish (1974)
* One Life to Live (TV)  (1973-1976)

=== Producer ===
* Once in the Life (2000) 
* Hoodlum (1997) 

=== Screenwriter ===
* Once in the Life (2000)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0000401 | name=Laurence Fishburne