American actor, best known for roles in films like The Matrix, Event Horizon, Boyz n The Hood, The King of New York, Othello, Mystic River, Apocalypse Now and Predators. On TV he has appeared in CSI and Hannibal.

When I came back I was six feet tall; I had been hanging out with Vietnam veterans. I was seventeen and looked twenty-seven.
- Interview magazine, 1995

Laurence with Gina Torres
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I was six feet tall, my voice had dropped. I had facial hair, and I wasn’t young and black and cute no more. I was tall, and dark and handsome—and threatening.
-- Bomb Magazine, 1992