The Big Picture: Laurence Fishburne Career & Biographical Notes: Married to Gina Torres, one of the stars of Joss Whedon's now-infamously-canceled series Firefly Was the first African American ever cast as Othello in a feature film when he played the famous role in a 1995 adaptation co-starring Kenneth Branagh Has appeared in four of Francis Ford Coppola's films High school nickname? 'Poindexter'

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Laurence Fishburne Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 6/3/11-6/9/11
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• Boyz n the Hood
• Color Purple, The
• Matrix Reloaded, The
• Matrix, The
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mystic River
• Ride Along

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Upcoming Movies: Release Date Film No release date 21

Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Predators	7/9/10	N/A
Armored	12/4/09				14.74	Info
Mission: Impossible III	5/5/06	PG-13	4054	47.74	132.56	Info
Akeelah and the Bee	4/28/06	PG	2195	6.01	18.21	Info
Assault on Precinct 13	1/19/05	R	2297	6.50	19.98	Info
The Matrix Revolutions	11/5/03	R	3502	48.48	193.26	Info
Mystic River	10/8/03	R	1467	10.45	90.14	Info
The Matrix Reloaded	5/15/03	R	3603	91.77	281.91	Info
Biker Boyz	1/31/03	PG-13	1766	10.11	21.91	Info
Osmosis Jones	8/10/01	PG	2305	5.27	13.57	Info

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Awards:

1993
What's Love Got to Do with It

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards

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