I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went "Oooh."
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
Laurence is a founding member of the Guggenheim Motorcycle Club, a group that arranges transportation to art museums around the world.
Laurence made his directorial debut with Once In The Life, the film version of the play Riff Raff.
Laurence credits his mother, who raised him on her own, for incitng his desire to act. She encouraged and inspired him to follow his dreams of being a famous actor.
Laurence lied to director Francis Ford Coppola to get a part on his movie Apocolypse Now, by telling him that he was 17 years old. In fact, he was 14 years old, and took on the part of a sailor named 'Mr. Clean'. Production of the film took so long that he had turned 17 years old when the filming actually wrapped. Francis was so impressed by his performance, that he worked on several other movies with him.
Lawrence and his wife, Gina Torres are expecting a baby. This is their first child together. (January 2007)
Laurence was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, in the category 'Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries' for The Tuskegee Airmen (1995).
Laurence was nominated for an MTV Movie Award, in the category 'Best Fight' for The Matrix (1991), shared with Keanu Reeves.
Laurence won an Emmy Award, on the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV", for: The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) (TV).
Laurence won a Cable ACE Award in the category 'Best Movie' for Miss Evers' Boys (1997). Shared with Robert Benedetti (executive producer), Derek Kavanagh (producer), Kip Konwiser (producer), Kern Konwiser (co-producer), Peter Stelzer.
Laurence was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award in the category "Favorite Supporting Actor - Action/Science-Fiction" for The Matrix (1999).
Laurence was nominated for a Black Film Award in the category 'Best Actor' for Hoodlum (1997).
Currently resides in New Rochelle, New York
Mr. Fishburne's television work includes such network telefilms as Robert Markowitz' Decoration Day, Michael Schultz' For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story, and Richard T. Heffron's A Rumor of War.
He auditioned for the role of Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1990).
Laurence won Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as 'Best Actor (Featured Role - Play)' for August Wilson's Two Trains Running.
He has starred in several features for HBO: Michael Apted's Always Outnumbered, which Mr. Fishburne also executive-produced, from the first screenplay by celebrated author Walter Mosley; Robert Markowitz' The Tuskegee Airmen, for which Mr. Fishburne won an NAACP Image Award and was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe Awards; and Joseph Sargent's Miss Evers' Boys. The latter telefilm earned multiple honors. Among them were five Emmy Awards, including the top prize of Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie (which he shared in his capacity as the film's executive producer), as well as the coveted President's Award.
He made his feature directorial debut on Once in the Life, the independent film version of his play Riff-Raff. He also wrote, produced, and starred in the movie adaptation, having previously starred in and directed the original theatrical production. The initial run of the latter, in Los Angeles, was his first production under his own banner, LOA Productions, and was followed by a production at New York's Circle Rep Theater.
Guest starred on Nightmare on Elm Street 3 as one of the nurses.
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