Laurence Fishburne

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Date of birth: 30.07.61
Place of birth: Augusta, Georgia
Honors: Emmy (1993 + 1997), image Award (1996 + 1998), Blockbuster Entertainment Award (2000), MTV Movie Award (2000) and A.
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Laurence Fishburnes career began early. For a long time it was young reduced however to the bad.


The Angstmacher

"come from time to time people to me and say: ' I love you in pulp Fiction, Mr. Jackson ' ", tell Laurence Fishburne of its experiences. It played so many high-praised roles that it might not come actually to mistakes. Particularly in the past it mostly played the rogue, which as follows it explains itself: "I played only so many bad young, because the only roles were, which I had offered gotten. The people see my face and get simply fear."

 

Also on the stage excellently

Laurence Fishburne was born on 30 August 1961 in Augusta, in the US federation state Georgia. With ten years Larry collected, as it is called, actor driving with school performances. Already two years later it had its feature debut in "Cornbread, Earl & ME". 1979 stood for Laurence Fishburne for Coppolas anti-war drama "Apocalypse Now" before the camera. The famous director engaged it also for its next projects "Rumble Fish", "Cotton club" and "the stone garden". To its canvas work also again and again the "workhorse" Fishburne is to be seen parallel on the television and on the stage. Thus it received the Tony Award - the most in demand American theatre honor - for the main role in the Broadway performance "Two Trains Running" as best actors.

 

The OSCAR nominating

1994 follow then the first OSCAR nominating: For its high-praised representation of the Ike Turner in "Tina - What's Love Got ton of DO With It" is suggested Fishburne as best actors. A descriptor that also film partner could only confirm Sean Connery after the turning work too "in the sump of the crime". Again and again designated Connery it in interviews as "exzellenten actors". At the latest since "Othello" Fishburne that he does not want to be any longer longer only the rogue, showed what it as Captain Miller in "Event Horizon - at the edge of the universe" underlined. it tried to save the world to 1999 as Morpheus in "matrix". Now he is to be seen again at the side of Keanu Reeves in the long-waited second part of the matrix Triologie.

Filmografie:

1975 Cornbread, Earl & ME
1979 Apocalypse Now
1979 the chance of its life
1980 Willie and Phil
1982 the man without grace
1983 Rumble Fish
1984 The Cotton club
1985 Quicksilver
1985 the color lila one
1986 the merciless clique
1987 the stone garden
1987 Cherry 2000
1987 Nightmare 3 - Freddy lives
1988 School Daze
1988 talk Heat
1990 King OF New York - king between day and night
1991 the law of power
1991 Cadence - a strange sound
1992 Boyz'n The Hood - young in the quarter
1992 the other world of the white line
1993 Tina - What's Love Got ton of DO With It?
1993 the king play
1995 the rebels
1995 bath company
1995 in the sump of the crime
1996 Othello
1997 Fled - escape after plan
1997 Harlem, N.Y.C.
1998 Event Horizon - at the edge of the universe
1999 matrix
2000 with all hardness
2003 matrix Reloaded + matrix revolution