Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia
Birthday: July 30

Primetime Emmy® Award-winning actor, Laurence Fishburne, is best known for his roles of “Morpheus” in the Matrix trilogy. He starred in Mystic River, Apocalypse Now, Event Horizon, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Bobby, was “Ike Turner” in What’s Love Got to Do with It, and played "Noland" in Predators. Fishburne starred as “Thurgood Marshall” in the HBO TV movie Thurgood, portrays “Dr. Raymond Langston” on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and played “Cowboy Curtis” on the 1980’s TV series Pee-wee’s Playhouse.

More about the actor at his official Laurence Fishburne site. More about the movie at the official Thurgood site.

Nominee
Laurence Fishburne, as Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood
HBO
A Stevens Company Production in association with Ostar Productions, Cinema Gypsy Productions and HBO Films

Nominee
Laurence Fishburne, as Caleb Humphries
Miss Evers' Boys
HBO

Winner
Laurence Fishburne, as Martin McHenry
TRIBECA
FOX