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Place of birth Augusta, Georgia, USA
Year of debut 1975
Awards
- Academy Awards nominated1
Laurence Fishburne moved from Georgia to Brooklyn when his parents divorced. He has no formal acting training. He learned on the job from the age of ten. As a teenager, he honed his acting skills in roles ranging from TV soap opera One Life To Live to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. In the nineties, he proved himself in numerous movies such as What’s Love Got To Do With It. He has since gained widespread recognition as Morpheus in the Matrix movies.
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£2.4915 Certificate 2003 132 MinsNeo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) must go on a voyage to the last remaining human city. Contains strong violence and moderate sex.
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£2.4915 Certificate 2004 123 MinsNeo (Keanu Reeves) must defend Earth's last city against the invasion of the machines. With Laurence Fishburne. Contains mild language and heightened, bloody comic-book violence.
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£2.4915 Certificate 1999 130 MinsA computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) is chosen to save the world from an army of machines. With Carrie-Anne Moss. Contains strong sci-fi violence
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£2.50PG Certificate 2007 88 MinsA team of superheroes must fight a villain from a different world. With Chris Evans and Jessica Alba. Infrequent moderate violence, mild innuendo and language.
Did you know?
- Laurence Fishburne made his directorial debut in 2000 with the movie Once In The Life. The screenplay is based on his play Riff Raff.
- In 1992, he was awarded a Tony for Best Featured Actor In A Play in August Wilson's Two Trains Running.
- In the eighties, he starred as Cowboy Curtis in the children's TV show Pee Wee's Playhouse.
- He married Hajna O. Moss in 1985 and they divorced in the mid nineties. They have two children. He married his Matrix co-star, Gina Torres, in 2002. They have one child.
- He has a keen interest in motorcycles.
Awards
Academy Awards nominated1
- 1993 Actor in a Leading Role - What's Love Got to Do with It
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