If I'm president, you're going to see 'Merry Christmas' in department stores, believe me.

Actor, Director, Producer and Playwright                          

Selected works:

Stage:

Eden - 1976
Short Eyes - 1985
Urban Blight - 1988
Loose Ends - 1988
Two Trains Running - 1992
Riff Raff - 1995
The Lion in Winter - 1999
Fences - 2006
Thurgood - 2008
National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C. - 2009

Filmography - Actor:

One Life to Live TV series - 1973–1976
Cornbread, Earl and Me - 1975
Fast Break - 1979
Apocalypse Now - 1979
Willie & Phil - 1980
Death Wish II - 1982
Rumble Fish - 1983
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story - 1983
The Cotton Club - 1984
Attack Me With Your Love by Cameo music video - 1985
The Color Purple - 1985
Miami Vice - 1986
Quicksilver - 1986
Band of the Hand - 1986
Come to Me by Robert Brookins music video - 1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - 1987
Gardens of Stone - 1987
Cherry 2000 - 1987
Red Heat - 1988
School Daze - 1988
Cadence - 1990
King of New York - 1990
Decoration Day - 1990
Class Action - 1991
Boyz N The Hood - 1991
Deep Cover - 1992
TriBeCa TV series - 1993
What's Love Got to Do with It - 1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer - 1993
Alien Warrior - 1994
Higher Learning - 1995
Othello - 1995
Just Cause - 1995
Bad Company - 1995
The Tuskegee Airmen - 1995

Producer:

TriBeCa TV series - 1993
Hoodlum - 1997
Once in the Life - 2000
Akeelah and the Bee - 2006
Fled - 1996
Miss Evers' Boys - 1997
Hoodlum - 1997
Event Horizon - 1997
Always Outnumbered - 1998
The Matrix - 1999
Once in the Life - 2000
Michael Jordan to the Max - 2000
Osmosis Jones - 2001
Deep Cover / Chill Factor - 2001
Biker Boyz - 2003
The Matrix Reloaded - 2003
Mystic River - 2003
The Matrix Revolutions - 2003
Assault on Precinct 13 - 2005
True Crime: New York City - Video Game, 2005
Five Fingers - 2006
Akeelah and the Bee - 2006
Mission: Impossible III - 2006
Bobby - 2006
The Death and Life of Bobby Z - 2007
TMNT - 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - 2007
21 - 2008
Tortured - 2008
Days of Wrath - 2008

Upcoming:
Black Water Transit - 2009
Armored - 2009

Screenwriter:
Once in the Life - 2000
Director:
Once in the Life - 2000

Television:

Pee-wee's Playhouse Cowboy Curtis - 1986–1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Dr. Raymond Langston, CSI: Level 1 - 2008–present.                          

Mother Hattie Bell Crawford
Father Laurence John Fishburne, Jr.
First wife Hajna Moss - 1985-1990's. Two children, a son, Langston, born in 1987, and a daughter, Montana, born 1991.
Second wife Gina Torres - 2002. One daughter, Delilah, born 2007.