Laurence Fishburne acted in a movie.
King of New York is a 1990 crime thriller film , starring Christopher Walken , Laurence Fishburne , David Caruso , Wesley Snipes , Victor Argo , and Giancarlo Esposito . Laurence Fishburne . Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker 's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play . Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name .