Laurence Fishburne: Biography, Latest News & Videos

  • Birth Name: Laurence John Fishburne III
  • Birth Place: Augusta, GA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/30/1961, Leo
  • Profession: Actor; producer
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SAG Awards Predictions: Who Will Win?

It's an honor to be nominated by the Academy, but it may be even more of an honor to be nominated and recognized by your peers. And that's what the Screen Actors Guild Awards are all about. The 18th annual ceremony takes place Sunday (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on TNT/TBS), and while we count down the minutes, let's make our best educated guesses at who will walk away with the big prizes. Check out our predictions and tell us your picks (you can download the ballot here.)
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Fall TV: Who Did It Better?

Ever feel like your favorite TV shows are sharing the same brain? Thanks to contract negotiations, pilot trends and similar cliff-hangers, we've seen several shows treading similar story line territory already this fall. CSI, Law & Order: SVU, The Office and Two and Half Men all replaced lead characters while NCIS and Castle both saw characters on a shrink's couch. But which shows did it better? Below, we pit them against one another and pick a winner...read more

VIDEO: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 12

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 12
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Posted: 10/13/2011

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas. watch

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CSI: - Seeing Red
CSI: - The Moment of Truth
CSI: - A Guy Interrupted
CSI: - Do Your Job

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Once In the Life
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Who & What

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Year Title Description
2011 Thurgood TV Show Series, Actor - Thurgood Marshall
2011 Thurgood TV Show Series, Co-Executive Producer
2010 Predators Movie, Actor - Noland
2010 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards TV Show Series, Appearing
2009 National Memorial Day Concert TV Show Series, Appearing

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CSI Cheers Up With Ted Danson

It's hard to imagine Sam Malone from Cheers needing a maggot wrangler. "I've never seen anything like it," Ted Danson says. Even with silver hair, the Emmy-winning actor looks like a kid who just pulled apart his first earthworm. "You can tell how long a human body has been decomposing by the size of the bugs crawling inside!" And the wrangler's got every variety. "It's incredible, until you think, 'Oh, God. We're talking about dead people.'"

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The 5 Roles That Prove Ted Danson Is Right for CSI

Over the summer, veteran CBS procedural CSI had the unenviable task of replacing its series lead for the second time in three seasons. And while a number of stars' names were bandied about, executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill could think of only one man to follow in the footsteps of Laurence Fishburne and William Petersen: Ted Danson.

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"He's able to do so many things. He's such a smart actor," McGill tells TVGuide.com. "We sort of had a rough idea of what this character of D.B. Russell was. Then, when we saw Ted's name and thought he might be available, I think we both just sparked.  He was the guy that we were thinking about."

Still, many found Danson's casting a bit surprising.... read more

Mega Buzz: New Pairs on Good Wife and Diaries? Plus: Bloody Good Dexter Scoop

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

I need some Good Wife scoop! Anything on Kalinda? — Brittany
ADAM:
Archie Panjabi says viewers will get new insight into Kalinda's relationship with Will. "The two of them look out for each other a lot," Panjabi says. "I think we'll definitely get to see that in Season 3. They used to spend a lot of time drinking in bars." Given what we now know about Kalinda's history with Peter, we certainly hope nothing happened after those drinks.

Please give us scoop on the new season of Dexter! — Mitchell
NATALIE:
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Contagion Beats The Help to Top Slow Weekend Box Office

Steven Soderbergh's virus outbreak thriller Contagion fittingly topped what was a pretty sickly weekend box office.

The film, which stars Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law, pulled in $23.1 million, according to Box Office Mojo. That was enough to topple three-time champ The Help, which fell to second place with an additional $8.7 million (for a total of $137 million after five weeks).

All told, the box office gross for the weekend's top 10 films was only $66.4 million, the lowest weekend gross this year.... read more

Who Earns What: TV's Biggest Salaries

A lot of people think TV is better than movies these days. For many actors, it certainly pays better. Unless you're able to play a superhero, it's tough to get super-rich from big-screen work, so more actors are moving to series TV. The expanded talent pool has given networks and studios extra leverage in negotiating salaries. "There are so few gigantic stars in features and the rest are not making any money," says one industry executive familiar with this year's deal-making. "That's helpful."

The general rule across the TV business is to keep lead performers on new network prime-time series to $125,000 an episode. (Cable networks are going as high as $150,000.) That's not Charlie Sheen money, but it's not bad. "Times that by 22, [and] you can maintain a pretty good lifestyle based on what you were making in features but now you're not," the executive says.

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