Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#97
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Laurence Fishburne represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 48 years in, and Laurence is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Laurence Fishburne appears in 77 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Laurence. The Matrix is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mike Flanagan, Jess Varley, Rob Edwards and others, Laurence Fishburne helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Matrix (1999) as Morpheus · The Matrix (1999) as Morpheus · Apocalypse Now (1979) as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Career snapshot
Ranked #97 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
77
1979–2027
Career length
48 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
The Matrix
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
The Matrix
Most frequent director
Francis Ford Coppola
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Francis Ford Coppola
Most common genre
Action
31 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
8.4 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Apocalypse Now — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
8.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
8.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
4 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Matrix, The Matrix, Event Horizon.
Most productive era
2020s
22 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.41 film | 7.03 films | 6.78 films | 6.67 films | 6.95 films | 5.62 films |
| Action | — | 6.23 films | 7.35 films | 6.310 films | 6.59 films | 6.94 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.52 films | 6.54 films | 6.88 films | 6.58 films | 6.57 films |
| Comedy | — | — | — | 6.54 films | 6.73 films | 5.15 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 9.21 film | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | 6.54 films | 6.76 films | 6.76 films | 6.94 films | 3.92 films |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film | — | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film | 6.71 film | — | — | 4.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1979Apocalypse Now
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999The Matrix
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Gatto
The current state of the argument, as Rocco (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
77 of 77 films
as Morpheus
Directed by The Wachowskis
as Morpheus
Directed by Lilly Wachowski
as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
as Furious Styles
Directed by John Singleton
as Bowery King
Directed by Chad Stahelski
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 86 titles · 93 total credits · active 1979–2027
The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027 · Actor
Gatto
2027 · Rocco (voice)
The Astronaut
2025 · General William Harris · Executive Producer
Wick Is Pain
2025 · Self
Sneaks
2025 · The Collector (voice) · Producer
The Amateur
2025 · Henderson
Megadoc
2025 · Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · TV · Self
Cellar Door
2024 · Emmett
Transformers One
2024 · Alpha Trion (voice)
Slingshot
2024 · Captain Franks
Megalopolis
2024 · Fundi Romaine
Clipped
2024 · TV · Doc Rivers
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl's Lab
2024 · TV · Creator
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Bowery King
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023 · TV · The Beyonder (voice) · Executive Producer
The School for Good and Evil
2022 · School Master
All the Old Knives
2022 · Vick Wallinger
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Self
Bonnie
2022 · Self
The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Ice Road
2021 · Goldenrod
Death to 2021
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Under the Stadium Lights
2021 · Harold Christian
The defining work
#1
Morpheus
The Matrix (1999)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Morpheus gives Laurence Fishburne a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Morpheus
The Matrix (1999)
Performance score8.7
The Matrix asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Morpheus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Performance score8.3
Apocalypse Now asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tyrone 'Clean' Miller is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Furious Styles
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Performance score7.9
Boyz n the Hood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Furious Styles is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Morpheus
Start here. The Matrix is the clearest statement of what Laurence Fishburne does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Laurence at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
A deliberate change of key after The Matrix — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Keeps the drama register of Apocalypse Now but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Matrix (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Boyz n the Hood — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Keeps the action register of The Matrix but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
4 films together
Notably Apocalypse Now
Lilly Wachowski
Director
3 films together
Notably The Matrix
Chad Stahelski
Director
3 films together
Notably John Wick: Chapter 4
John Singleton
Director
2 films together
Notably Boyz n the Hood
Bill Duke
Director
2 films together
Notably Deep Cover
Nimród Antal
Director
2 films together
Notably Predators
Tim Story
Director
2 films together
Notably Ride Along
Zack Snyder
Director
2 films together
Notably Man of Steel
Clint Eastwood
Director
2 films together
Notably Mystic River
Michael Winner
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Wish II
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Color Purple
Steve De Jarnatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Cherry 2000
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Heat
Abel Ferrara
Director
1 film together
Notably King of New York
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Class Action
Fax Bahr
Director
1 film together
Notably Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably Searching for Bobby Fischer
Brian Gibson
Director
1 film together
Notably What's Love Got to Do with It
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably Othello
Arne Glimcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Cause
Kevin Hooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Fled
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Event Horizon
The Wachowskis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Undercover Brother
Reggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together
Notably Biker Boyz
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together
Notably Bobby
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible III
John Herzfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably 21
Anthony Silverston
Director
1 film together
Notably Khumba
Jeff Renfroe
Director
1 film together
Notably The Colony
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably Rudderless
Morten Tyldum
Director
1 film together
Notably Passengers
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Flag Flying
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp
Alice Mathias
Director
1 film together
Notably Death to 2020
Josh Ruben
Director
1 film together
Notably Death to 2021
Jonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ice Road
Lana Wachowski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Matrix Resurrections
Elvis Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Janus Metz
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Old Knives
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably The School for Good and Evil
Mikael Håfström
Director
1 film together
Notably Slingshot
Josh Cooley
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers One
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Megadoc
James Hawes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Amateur
Rob Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Sneaks
Jess Varley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Astronaut
Mike Flanagan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Exorcist: Martyrs
Carrie-Anne Moss
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Joe Pantoliano
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Keanu Reeves
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Hugo Weaving
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Gloria Foster
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Marcus Chong
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Julian Arahanga
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Matt Doran
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Belinda McClory
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Anthony Ray Parker
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Paul Goddard
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Robert Taylor
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Matrix
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
4 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Apocalypse NowLilly Wachowski
Director
3 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The MatrixChad Stahelski
Director
3 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
John Wick: Chapter 4Clint Eastwood
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mystic RiverJohn Singleton
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Boyz n the HoodBill Duke
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deep CoverZack Snyder
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Man of SteelNimród Antal
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
PredatorsTim Story
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ride AlongThe Wachowskis
Director
1 film together · 9.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MatrixJosh Cooley
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers OneSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Color PurpleFax Bahr
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's ApocalypseWilliam H. Macy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RudderlessShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss Kiss Bang BangSteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Searching for Bobby FischerPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The School for Good and EvilMorten Tyldum
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PassengersJames Hawes
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AmateurPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the WaspJonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ice RoadRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible IIIBrian Gibson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What's Love Got to Do with ItAbel Ferrara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King of New YorkRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Flag FlyingPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Event HorizonChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream WarriorsMike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegadocAlice Mathias
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death to 2020Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Osmosis JonesEmilio Estevez
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BobbyOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OthelloMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Class ActionWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red HeatLana Wachowski
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Matrix ResurrectionsReggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Biker BoyzArne Glimcher
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just CauseMichael Winner
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Wish IIJess Varley
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AstronautElvis Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is That Black Enough for You?!?John Herzfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death and Life of Bobby ZMikael Håfström
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SlingshotJanus Metz
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Old KnivesJosh Ruben
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death to 2021Anthony Silverston
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KhumbaSteve De Jarnatt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cherry 2000Rob Edwards
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SneaksMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Undercover BrotherKevin Hooks
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FledJeff Renfroe
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ColonyMike Flanagan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Exorcist: MartyrsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2000
The Matrix
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Matrix
as Morpheus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Ike Turner
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Matrix
as Morpheus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Matrix Resurrections
as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Matrix
as Morpheus
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Laurence Fishburne has known it for a long time.”
“There is no spoon.”
“I know kung fu.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #304 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Action | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | The Wachowskis | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Action, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1999–1999 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Morpheus — The Matrix | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Matrix | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Top 250 Movies of All Time
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
48 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
31 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Matrix
as Morpheus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Matrix
as Morpheus
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Ike Turner
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mystic River
as Whitey Powers
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Matrix
as Morpheus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Matrix Resurrections
as Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rudderless
as Del
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Matrix
as Morpheus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
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