Laurence Fishburne
Glory days
Best movie
8.7
The Matrix (1999)
Worst movie
4.6
Megalopolis (2024)
First 5 to latest 5
−1.4
7.2 → 5.8 on average
Average rating
6.6
12.9M votes in total
IMDb rating per movie
Cameos
The best rated of the 60 movies Laurence Fishburne starred in is The Matrix (1999), at 8.7 on IMDb, and the worst is Megalopolis (2024), at 4.6. The first 5 average 7.2 and the latest 5 5.8, down by 1.4. Together they average 6.6, from 12.9M votes in total. 3 cameos, like The Matrix Resurrections (2021), aren't counted.
Movie by movie
| Movie | Role | Released | Votes | Rating | Change | Rating bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse Now | as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | 1979 | 780.1K | 8.4 | ||
| Death Wish II | as Cutter | 1982 | 20.7K | 6.0 | −2.4 | |
| Rumble Fish | as Midget | 1983 | 41.8K | 7.1 | +1.1 | |
| The Cotton Club | as Bumpy Rhodes | 1984 | 21.4K | 6.6 | −0.5 | |
| The Color Purple | as Swain | 1985 | 105.6K | 7.7 | +1.1 | |
| Cherry 2000 | as Glu Glu Lawyer | 1987 | 11.9K | 5.6 | −2.1 | |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | as Max | 1987 | 101.7K | 6.7 | +1.1 | |
| Red Heat | as Lt. Stobbs | 1988 | 82.4K | 6.2 | −0.5 | |
| King of New York | as Jimmy Jump | 1990 | 50.2K | 6.9 | +0.7 | |
| Boyz n the Hood | as Furious Styles | 1991 | 171K | 7.7 | +0.8 | |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | as Self | 1991 | 26.2K | 8.1 | +0.4 | |
| Deep Cover | as Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | 1992 | 16.9K | 7.0 | −1.1 | |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | as Vinnie | 1993 | 45.2K | 7.3 | +0.3 | |
| What's Love Got to Do with It | as Ike Turner | 1993 | 26K | 7.4 | +0.1 | |
| Higher Learning | as Professor Maurice Phipps | 1995 | 23.7K | 6.5 | −0.9 | |
| Just Cause | as Sheriff Tanny Brown | 1995 | 33.3K | 6.4 | −0.1 | |
| Othello | as Othello | 1995 | 10.7K | 6.8 | +0.4 | |
| Fled | as Piper | 1996 | 10.7K | 5.5 | −1.3 | |
| Event Horizon | as Miller | 1997 | 218.5K | 6.6 | +1.1 | |
| Hoodlum | as Bumpy Johnson | 1997 | 14.4K | 6.3 | −0.3 | |
| The MatrixBest | as Morpheus | 1999 | 2.3M | 8.7 | +2.4 | |
| Osmosis Jones | as Thrax (voice) | 2001 | 42K | 6.3 | −2.4 | |
| Undercover BrotherCameo | as Verification Hand (voice) (uncredited) | 2002 | 38.4K | 5.9 | ||
| The Matrix Reloaded | as Morpheus | 2003 | 678.2K | 7.2 | +0.9 | |
| The Matrix Revolutions | as Morpheus | 2003 | 581.4K | 6.8 | −0.4 | |
| Biker Boyz | as Smoke | 2003 | 14.9K | 4.7 | −2.1 | |
| Mystic River | as Whitey Powers | 2003 | 533.8K | 7.9 | +3.2 | |
| Kiss Kiss Bang BangCameo | as Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | 2005 | 251.8K | 7.4 | ||
| Assault on Precinct 13 | as Marion Bishop | 2005 | 85.1K | 6.3 | −1.6 | |
| Bobby | as Edward Robinson | 2006 | 44.1K | 6.9 | +0.6 | |
| Mission: Impossible III | as Theodore Brassel | 2006 | 429.7K | 6.9 | ±0.0 | |
| Akeelah and the Bee | as Dr. Larabee | 2006 | 23.1K | 7.4 | +0.5 | |
| TMNT | as Narrator (voice) | 2007 | 72.9K | 6.2 | −1.2 | |
| Bobby Z | as Tad Gruzsa | 2007 | 16.2K | 5.8 | −0.4 | |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | as Silver Surfer (voice) | 2007 | 303.9K | 5.6 | −0.2 | |
| 21 | as Cole Williams | 2008 | 283.5K | 6.8 | +1.2 | |
| Armored | as Baines | 2009 | 32.9K | 5.7 | −1.1 | |
| Predators | as Noland | 2010 | 265.2K | 6.4 | +0.7 | |
| Contagion | as Ellis Cheever | 2011 | 334.8K | 6.8 | +0.4 | |
| Man of Steel | as Perry White | 2013 | 878.7K | 7.1 | +0.3 | |
| The Colony | as Briggs | 2013 | 49.8K | 5.3 | −1.8 | |
| Ride Along | as Omar | 2014 | 130.7K | 6.2 | +0.9 | |
| Rudderless | as Del | 2014 | 20.3K | 7.4 | +1.2 | |
| The Signal | as Dr. Wallace Damon | 2014 | 73.7K | 6.0 | −1.4 | |
| Passengers | as Gus Mancuso | 2016 | 506.9K | 7.0 | +1.0 | |
| Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | as Perry White | 2016 | 800.7K | 6.4 | −0.6 | |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | as Bowery King | 2017 | 580.5K | 7.4 | +1.0 | |
| Last Flag Flying | as Reverend Richard Mueller | 2017 | 31.2K | 6.9 | −0.5 | |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | as Dr. Bill Foster | 2018 | 509.1K | 7.0 | +0.1 | |
| The Mule | as Special Agent in Charge | 2018 | 171.4K | 7.0 | ±0.0 | |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette | as Paul Jellinek | 2019 | 28.2K | 6.5 | −0.5 | |
| Running with the Devil | as The Man | 2019 | 11.6K | 5.4 | −1.1 | |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | as Bowery King | 2019 | 489.8K | 7.4 | +2.0 | |
| The Matrix ResurrectionsCameo | as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021 | 307.7K | 5.6 | ||
| The Ice Road | as Goldenrod | 2021 | 58K | 5.7 | −1.7 | |
| The School for Good and Evil | as School Master | 2022 | 43K | 5.9 | +0.2 | |
| All the Old Knives | as Vick Wallinger | 2022 | 32.5K | 6.2 | +0.3 | |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | as Bowery King | 2023 | 421.2K | 7.6 | +1.4 | |
| MegalopolisWorst | as Fundi Romaine | 2024 | 43.3K | 4.6 | −3.0 | |
| Slingshot | as Captain Franks | 2024 | 12.9K | 5.7 | +1.1 | |
| Transformers One | as Alpha Trion (voice) | 2024 | 70K | 7.6 | +1.9 | |
| The Amateur | as Henderson | 2025 | 104.3K | 6.5 | −1.1 | |
| The Astronaut | as General William Harris | 2025 | 12.3K | 4.8 | −1.7 |
Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.
Worked with
Keanu Reeves
There can be only one
First 5 6.9−0.5Latest 5 6.4
Francis Ford Coppola
Not what it used to be
First 5 7.9−2.0Latest 5 5.9
Hugo Weaving
The early years were better
First 5 8.2−1.5Latest 5 6.7
Nicolas Cage
Glory days
First 5 6.9−1.1Latest 5 5.8
Lana Wachowski
Lost the touch
First 5 7.3−0.8Latest 5 6.5
Lilly Wachowski
Getting too old for this
First 4 7.4−0.7Latest 4 6.7