I debated over this a little since it was yesterday but have decided to go forward because he’s a cool dude with a great resume in Sci-Fi circles.
Recently, he was the crazy survivor in Predators, he was the captain of the rescue ship in the terrible Event Horizon; to the movie’s credit, Laurence and Sam Neill were the A-list actors bogged down by a flick which couldn’t make up its mind (it was certainly the worst of several genres); and he will always be immortalized as Morpheus from the Matrix. The guy has a commanding voice. It extends into giving him the presence of leadership. Maybe the Star Trek people should consider making him a recurring admiral character since I doubt they’ll give him his own ship/series.
Outside Sci-Fi, he has numerous television appearances that many have forgotten. The list imdb.com gives is like a list on what was mandatory viewing in the Eighties: MASH, Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. However, my personal favorite is Cowboy Curtis from Pee Wee’s Playhouse. I already knew this from a Fresh Air interview back in the Nineties. You could “hear” the smile on his face when Terri Gross mentioned it.
I’ll close with a final piece of trivia about Laurence, a fellow Leo. He has something in common with future legend James Garner. They’ve both played the same historical character twice. Let me clarify. Garner has portrayed a famous shadowy figure twice, Fishburne too, yet he was a different person who actually existed. I’ll let anyone who cares figure it out. It shouldn’t be too hard thanks to all the tools we have at our disposal on the Internet.