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Laurence Fishburne stars as Doc Rivers in Clipped.

Career Highlights

Laurence J. Fishburne III has achieved an impressive body of work as an actor, producer and director. He starred in his first television show at age 10 in the drama One Life to Live, and made his feature film debut at age 12 in Cornbread, Earl and Me. At 15, Fishburne appeared in Apocalypse Now, the first of many cult classics destined to define his long career.Fishburne’s versatile acting has won him awards in theatre, film and television. In 1992, Fishburne won a Tony Award® for his portrayal of “Sterling Johnson” in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running. He won his first Emmy® Award in 1993 for “The Box” episode of TriBeCa, and his second for his one-man show, Thurgood, in 1997. In 1993, Fishburne also received a Best Actor Oscar® nomination for the Tina Turner biopic, What’s Love Got to Do with It. He was an Emmy Award nominee and an NAACP Image Award winner for his starring role in the 1997 telefilm Miss Evers’ Boys, which he also executive produced. Fishburne has been nominated 25 times for NAACP Image awards, with seven wins - most recently in 2021 for Outstanding Performance in a Short Form Series for #FreeRayshawn. His most recent Emmy win was also for his role in Quibi’s #FreeRayshawn.Fishburne may be best known for his role as “Morpheus” in the Wachowksi siblings’ blockbuster The Matrix trilogy, but his many film credits include Academy Award nominee John Singleton’s Boyz ‘n the Hood, Richard T. Heffron’s telefilm A Rumor of War, Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, Steven Zaillian’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, John Singleton’s Higher Learning, Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River and cult classics, Deep Cover and King of New York.In 2000, Fishburne founded Cinema Gypsy Productions with his longtime manager and producing partner, Helen Sugland. They have produced numerous nominated and award-winning projects including Thurgood (HBO), Five Fingers (Lionsgate), Akeelah and the Bee (Lionsgate), Once in the Life (Lionsgate), Always Out Numbered (HBO), Hoodlum (United Artists) and Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO). They produced the ABC TV hit series black-ish, where Fishburne starred alongside Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, as well as its current Freeform spinoff, grown-ish and ABC spinoff, mixed-ish. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021, black-ish received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. The show was also nominated in 2017 and 2018 for a Golden Globe® Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Their latest animated series is Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur for Disney, now on its second season; the show received five Children’s &amp; Family Emmys wins. Up next, Fishburne is an executive producer on a new TV series Cookies &amp; Milk and will voice act in Sneaks with producer Helen Sugland from Cinema Gypsy.In 2016, Fishburne starred in Warner Bros.’ blockbuster Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and A&amp;E’s miniseries remake of Roots, alongside Forest Whitaker and Anna Paquin. The Roots remake premiered with universal acclaim, and Fishburne received a 2016 Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Narrator as Alex Haley. Fishburne also appeared in Passengers alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, which was released in December 2016.In Madiba, a 2017 miniseries for BET Networks, Fishburne portrayed Nelson Mandela in a drama about the politician’s life. In 2017, he appeared in Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying in which he starred with Steve Carell and Bryan Cranston. In 2018, he was seen in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and reprised his role as “Bowery King” in John Wick 3 in May 2019.Fishburne was last seen in Running with the Devil, Annapurna’s highly anticipated adaptation of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Quibi’s movie-in-chapter #FreeRayshawn, The Ice Road and Peacock series MacGruber.He recently performed The Autobiography of Malcolm X, that was released on September 10, 2020, on Audible and is a New York Times bestseller. Fishburne snagged an Audie Award for Best Male Narrator for his narration of the audiobook.From 2021-22, Fishburne starred in American Buffalo on Broadway. In March of 2024, Fishburne performed his one man show, Like They Do In the Movies, at PAC NYC. Fishburne is both the star and the playwright of this one-man tour-de-force which he describes as “the stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself.”Fishburne’s other releases include Bronzeville, a 10-episode audio drama written by A History of Violence scribe Josh Olson and produced with Larenz Tate’s company TateMen Entertainment and Audio HQ. Season two of the series premiered on March 16, 2021.Fishburne has served as an Ambassador for UNICEF since 1996. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as Artist of the Year for his outstanding contributions to American and international performing arts as well as his humanitarian contributions.In 2022, he starred in Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil and was an executive producer of The Cave of Adullam which aired on ESPN and can be streamed on ESPN+ (The Cave received two Realscreen Awards nominations). Fishburne also resumed his role in John Wick: Chapter. Next, he is set to star in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, will star alongside Kate Mara in a new film, The Astronaut, and will make his first appearance in season four of the Netflix hit series The Witcher.

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Laurence Fishburne stars as "Doc Rivers" in Clipped.

Laurence Fishburne as Doc Rivers in FX's Clipped wearing a suit, holding a pen pointing.

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Career Highlights

Jacki Weaver
as Shelly Sterling

Ed O'Neill
as Donald Sterling

Cleopatra Coleman
as V. Stiviano

Laurence Fishburne as Doc Rivers | FX's Clipped

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Jacki Weaveras Shelly Sterling

Ed O'Neillas Donald Sterling

Cleopatra Colemanas V. Stiviano

Jacki Weaver
as Shelly Sterling

Ed O'Neill
as Donald Sterling

Cleopatra Coleman
as V. Stiviano