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Laurence Fishburne
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Born: Jul 30, 1961
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE, honored for his work on the stage and screen, earned an Academy Award® nomination for his searing portrayal of Ike Turner in the hit biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It. Fishburne recently made his directorial debut, as well as starring in and producing, Once In The Life which he wrote based on the one-act play Riff Raff in which he starred, wrote and directed in 1994. The play’s initial run in Los Angeles was the first production produced under Fishburne’s own banner L.O.A. Productions.
Fishburne, who began acting at the age of 10, was only 15 years old when he won the role of a young G.I. in Francis Coppola’s Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now. He went on to work with Coppola on Rumble Fish, Gardens Of Stone and The Cotton Club.
Fishburne has collaborated twice with noted director John Singleton on Boyz N The Hood and Higher Learning, earning an NAACP Image Award for Best Actor for the former. His other credits include Othello, Searching For Bobby Fischer, Just Cause, Bad Company, Class Action, Deep Cover, Fled, Cadence, King Of New York, Red Heat, Band Of The Hand, Spike Lee’s School Daze, Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, Hoodlum, Event Horizon, THE MATRIX, the voice for Thrax in Osmosis Jones and, most recently, as the star of Biker Boyz.
On the small screen, Fishburne received nominations for the Emmy®, Golden Globe® and CableACE Awards and won an NAACP Image Award for his performance in the HBO movie The Tuskegee Airmen, the story of Ame...[MORE]
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Laurence Fishburne Nude and Sexy
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