Birth Name: Laurence John Fishburne III
Birth Date: 30th July, 1961
Age: 47
Birth Place: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Also Called as: Lawrence Fishburne, Larry Fishburne
Active in career since – 1972

               
Beginning years

Fishburne was born to Hattie Bell Crawford, (a junior high school science and mathematics teacher), and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr., (a juvenile corrections officer). After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother and was brought up in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the Lincoln Square Academy in New York (which is now closed since the 1980s). He is of African – American descent.

Career

At the age of twelve, Fishburne’s acting stated with his first gig, portraying Joshua Hall on the Soap opera One Life to Live in 1973.

Fishburne acted in films like: Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Fast Break (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), Willie & Phil (1980), Death Wish II (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), The Color Purple (1985),Miami Vice (1986), Quicksilver (1986), Band of the Hand (1986),A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Gardens of Stone (1987), Cherry 2000 (1987), Red Heat (1988), School Daze (1988), Cadence (1990) , King of New York (1990), Decoration Day (1990), Class Action (1991), Boyz N The Hood (1991), Deep Cover (1992), What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Alien Warrior (1994), Higher Learning (1995), Othello (1995), Just Cause (1995), Bad Company (1995),The Tuskegee Airmen (1996), Fled (1996), Miss Evers' Boys (1997), Hoodlum (1997), Event Horizon (1997), Always Outnumbered (1998), The Matrix (1999), Once in the Life (2000), Michael Jordan to the Max (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), Deep Cover(2001), Chill Factor (2001), Biker Boyz (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), Mystic River (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), Five Fingers (2006), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Bobby (2006), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), 21 (2008), Tortured (2008),Days of Wrath (2008), Black Water Transit (2009), Ninja Funhouse (2009), Armored (2009), Saved By The Bell: The Movie (Mr. Belding, 2010) & They Live (2011).

He also appeared on TV shows such as: One Life to Live (1973-1976), Pee-wee's Playhouse - Vols. 1-8 (1987), TriBeCa (1993) and recently in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The music videos with he was associated are Attack Me With Your Love by Cameo music video (1985) and Come to Me by Robert Brookins music video (1987)

He also did work on a video game True Crime: New York City (2005).

On stage, some of his notable works include: Riff Raff (1995), The Lion in Winter (1999), Fences (2006), Thurgood (2008), Eden (1976), Short Eyes (1985), Urban Blight (1988), Loose Ends (1988),Two Trains Running (1992).
As a producer his works include: TriBeCa TV series (1993), Hoodlum (1997), Once in the Life (2000) and Akeelah and the Bee (2006).
He also wrote the screenplay and directed Once in the Life in the year 2000.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

After William Petersen left the popular crime show CSI, Laurence Fishburne replaced him to lead the characters of the show. He joins the show from the ninth season (22nd January, 2009) as Dr. Raymond Langston, who is a former pathologist and a college professor. His specialty is his understanding of criminal’s tendency to commit crime. This character was first introduced as a consultant on a case and then made to join the CSI team. Once, at a hospital where Langston used to practice, a co-worker killed twenty seven patients, but he never was able to figure the evidence out. These demons of the past still haunt him at times.

Personal life
In Ethopia, Laurence married actress Hajna Moss in 1985 and they have two children too, Langston (born 1997), Montana (1991), but the couple got divorces in mid 1990s. Then on 20th September, 2002, Fishburne married Gina Torres, an actress and they have two children, JC Boaz and Delilah (born June 2007). Although he lives in Mew Rochelle, New York, he also has a residence in the Castle Village section of Washington Heights, New York City. Laurence is a huge fan of author Paulo Coelho and desires to make a movie on his best selling novel The Alchemist.

Honors

On 24th February, 2007, Harvard Foundation honored him with the title Artist of the Year at the annual show Cultural Rhythms for proficiency as an actor and for charitable works. Laurence is also a UNICEF ambassador and also a proud recipient of the key to the city from the Mayor Kenneth Reeves of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He won an Emmy award in 1993 in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his work in TriBeCa and another in 1997 for his work in Miss Evers' Boys in the category Outstanding Made for Television Movie. He was nominated a couple of times more as well. In 1997 for Miss Evers' Boys in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini-Series or Television Special and in 1996 in the category Outstanding Actor in a Mini-Series or Television Special for his work in The Tuskegee Airmen.

In 1992 he was awarded the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in Two Trains Running.

He won three NAACP Image awards. The first came in 1996 as Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie for The Tuskegee Airmen. Then in 1998 in the same category he won the awards for Miss Evers' Boys. Also in 1996 he bagged an award for the Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture in recognition of his work in Higher Learning

He was nominated for an Academy Award as well, in 1994 for the movie ‘What's Love Got to Do with It’ in the category of Best Actor in a Leading Role. He won a Black Movie award for ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ in 2006 in the category Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, although he was nominated for another category for the same film in the category Outstanding Motion Picture (Producer) as well.
In 2000, he was nominated as the Best Actor during Black Reel Awards for the movie The Matrix. In 2007 he was nominated in the categories Best Supporting Actor, Best Motion Picture [Producer] for Akeelah and the Bee.