LAURENCE FISHBURNE

BIOGRAPHY:

For most of his early career, he was credited as Larry Fishburne. In 1973, Fishburne had his first acting role portraying Joshua Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

He auditioned for the role of Michael Evans in the television series Good Times, but the role went to Ralph Carter.

His most memorable childhood role was in Cornbread, Earl and Me, in which he played a young boy who witnessed the police shooting of a popular high school basketball star. He later earned a supporting role in Apocalypse Now, in which he played Tyrone Miller, a cocky 17-year-old Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class from the Bronx, nicknamed Mr. Clean. When production began in March 1976, he was just 14 years old, having lied about his age to get the part. Filming took so long that he actually was 17 years old upon its completion.

MORE MOVIE WITH: Laurence Fishburne

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Play: Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath	Passengers (2016) Play: Gus Mancuso	Thurgood (2011) Play: Thurgood Marshall	Predators (2010) Play: Noland	Armored (2009) Play: Baines
Days of Wrath (2008) Play:	Akeelah & the Bee (2006) Play: Dr. Larabee	Bobby (2006) Play: Edward Robinson	Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Play: Marion Bishop	Biker Boyz (2004) Play: Smoke
Once in the Life (2000) Play: 20 / 20 Mike & Director	Always Outnumbered (1998) Play: Socrates Fortlow	Hoodlum (1997) Play: Bumpy Johnson	Miss Evers Boys (1997) Play: Caleb Humphries	Event Horizon (1997) Play: Captain Miller
Fled (1996) Play: Charles Piper	Higher Learning (1995) Play: Professor Maurice Phipps	The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) Play: Hannibal Lee	Just Cause (1995) Play: Bobby Earl	What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) Play: Ike Turner
Boyz n the Hood (1991) Play: Jason ‘Furious’ Styles	Cadence (1990) Play: Roosevelt Stokes	School Daze (1988) Play: Dap	The Color Purple (1985) Play: Swain	Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) Play: Wilford Robinson

SERIES TV WITH: Laurence Fishburne

Roots – Memorial Day (2016) Play: Alex Haley Black Ish (2015) Play: Pops Johnson