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Laurence Fishburne (born July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia, USA) is a notable United States movie actor.
Laurence Fishburne started acting at the age of 12, getting his big break portraying Joshua Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live in 1973. However, it was his 1992 role in Deep Cover that gained him lasting recognition as an outstanding actor. That same year, Fishburne won a Tony Award for his stage performance in August Wilson's
Two Trains Running, which was followed by an Oscar nomination one year later for his impersonation of Ike Turner in
What's Love Got to Do With It?. Also in 1992 he received an Emmy Award for an episode of the short-lived TV series Tribeca. Nowadays Fishburne is best known for his role as Morpheus, the hacker-mentor of Neo (
Keanu Reeves) in the blockbuster science fiction movie series "The Matrix."
Fishburne married actress Hajna O. Moss in 1985 and had two children with her, a son named Langston (born 1987) and a daughter named Montana (born 1991); however, the couple got divorced during the 1990s, and on September 20 2002, Fishburne married another actress, Gina Torres.
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Starring:
Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey
Review:
Odds are you're going to like this lively spin on the true story of
six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas bank in the 1990s. Loosely
adapted from Ben Mezrich's best-selling Bringing Down the
House, the movie stretches facts like taffy but never shirks
its responsibility to entertain. And, jeez, it's a kick to see
Kevin Spacey up to his old tricks as the sultan of snark. Spacey
plays Mickey Rosa, a math prof who cherry-picks the brainiest
students to join his secret club of card counters. They rake it in
at blackjack on weekend trips to Vegas. His newest recruit is Ben
Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an innocent with a knack for numbers to
rival Rain Man's. Sturgess does a nifty job as this poor Boston
lad, given that he's a Brit best known for starring in Across
the Universe. The...
Rating:
3 Stars
Published: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:42:54 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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