Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurence Fishburne plays Keanu Reeves’s mentor Morpheus in The Matrix movies - LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy Stock Photo “Wise mouth, ...

Laurence Fishburne was already a well-respected actor before taking on the role of Morpheus in The Matrix. He received an Academy Award nomination for What’s Love Got to Do With It, and starred in ...

“We were essentially the first Western actors to work in the Hong Kong style,” he says of himself and co-stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. “And so [martial arts choreographer] Yuen Woo-ping was ...