ComingSoon.net has announced that Laurence Fishburne will be joining the cast of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" this fall. The actor just completed the run of his solo performance in Broadway's Thurgood.
"Fishburne will play a former pathologist who is now working as an itinerant college lecturer, teaching a course in criminalistics. His focus is on understanding criminal behavior, how and why people commit acts of violence - tendencies he disturbingly sees within himself. In the course of a murder investigation, he comes into contact with the CSI team and ultimately joins the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level-1 CSI," reports ComingSoon.net.
The producers of CSI had seen Fishburne in Thurgood and had found it to be a "truly profound experience", so much so that they decided he would be the dream actor they would want for the upcoming season.
Perhaps most recognized for his stirring role in the box-office hit movie trilogy - The Matrix - actor, producer and director,
Laurence Fishburne also recently starred in Lionsgate's Akeelah & the Bee, which he produced through his Cinema
Gypsy productions. He later co-starred opposite
Tom Cruise and
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Paramount's summer film Mission Impossible 3. Later in 2006, Fishburne joined the impressive cast of Bobby, which was nominated for a SAG award for best ensemble cast.
Fishburne stage credits include Without Walls by
Alfred Uhry, directed by
Christopher Ashley, at the Center Theatre Group's
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. For this performance he was awarded Best Actor at the 17th Annual NAACP Theater Award. He then starred opposite
Angela Bassett at The
Pasadena Playhouse in
August Wilson's play Fences, which broke playhouse sales records in its sold-out run.
In 1992, he was awarded a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, and a Theater World Award for his work on Broadway as Sterling Johnson in
August Wilson's Two Trains Running. In 1999 he appeared at the Roundabout Theater on Broadway, playing the lead role of Henry II, in The Lion in Winter.
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