lawrence fishburne is an american actor producer film director playwright and screenwriter
he's been critically hailed for his forceful militant and authoritative characters in his films
he's best known for playing morpheus in the matrix trilogy from 1999 to 2003 and as the bowery king
in a john wick film series from 2017 to present lawrence fishburne became the first african
american to portray othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in oliver parker's
1995 film adaptation of the shakespeare play lawrence fishburne has an estimated net worth
of 29 million dollars lawrence fishburne's early life lawrence john fishburne iii was
born on july 30th 1961 in augusta georgia he's the son of hattie bell crawford a junior high school
mathematics and science teacher and lawrence john fishburn jr a juvenile corrections officer
after his parents divorce during his childhood lawrence fishburne moved with his mother to
brooklyn new york where he was raised his father saw him once a month lawrence fishburne is a
graduate of lincoln square academy in new york which closed in the 1980s lawrence fishburn is
six feet tall or 1.84 meters lawrence fishburne's personal life lawrence fishburne married actress
hajnai omas in 1985 in new york they have two children together son langston who was born
in 1987 and daughter montana fishburn who was born in 1991. hojna o moss and lawrence
fishburne divorced in the 1990s from 1992 to 1995 lawrence fishburn dated actress victoria dillard
then later he met actress gina torres and they were engaged in february 2001
and married on september 22nd 2002. they were married at the cloisters museum in new york city
on january 8 2007 lawrence fishburne spokesman alan nirob announced the couple were expecting
their first child together a daughter named delilah was born to the couple in june 2007.
on september 20th 2017 it was confirmed that gina torres and lawrence fishburne were separated
and had been keeping the separation private for the last year lawrence fishburne filed for
divorce on november 2nd 2017 and the divorce was finalized effective may 11 2018 after gina torres
and lawrence fishburne reached a final settlement on april 16 2018. lawrence fishburne is a big fan
of brazilian author paolo coelho and plans to produce a movie based on his novel the alchemist
lawrence fishburne's career lawrence fishburne had his first acting role portraying joshua hall
on the abc soap opera one life to live 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 third class from the bronx nickname 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 lawrence fishburne's other
film credits include the color purple in 1985. school days in 1988 king of new york in 1990
boys in the hood in 1991 deep cover in 1992 searching for bobby fischer in 1993
event horizon in 1997 mystic river in 2003 aquila and the b in 2006 contagion in 2011
man of steel in 2013 batman vs superman dawn of justice in 2016 and ant-man and the wasp in 2018.
on television lawrence fishburn starred as dr raymond langston on the cbs crime drama csi crime
scene investigation from 2008-2011 as special agent jack crawford in the nbc thriller series
hannibal from 2013 to 2015 and as earl johnson or pops in the abc sitcom blackish from 2014
till present lawrence fishburne was nominated for an academy award for best actor for his portrayal
of ike turner in what's love got to do with it in 1993. he won a tony award for best featured
actor in a play for his performance in two trains running in 1992 and an emmy award for outstanding
guest actor in a drama series for his performance in tribeca in 1993. lawrence fishburne's real
estate lawrence fishburne lives in hollywood and also maintains residence in new york city in the
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