Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne was born on July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia. He got his start on the soap opera One Life to Live in 1973. He had a supporting role in Apocalypse Now (1976) before bouncing around in different television roles throughout the 1980s. He had a minor role in 1985’s The Color Purple, which he starred in with Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, along with a small role in 1984’s The Cotton Club. He guest-starred an episode of MASH. He earned a Tony Award for the play Two Trains Running. He later starred in Deep Cover before getting his first Oscar nomination in 1993 for his role in What’s Love Got to Do With It.

He played Othello in 1996 and starred in the sci-fi film Event Horizon before coming to worldwide stardom for his role as Morpheus in the Matrix Trilogy (1999 to 2003). Fishburne later appeared in Mission: Impossible III and the stage production of Fences. Fishburne is a UNICEF ambassador.