Editing Laurence Fishburne (section)

== Early life ==
Fishburne was born in [[Augusta, Georgia]], raised as the son of Hattie Bell ({{née|Crawford}}), a junior high school mathematics and science teacher, and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr., a juvenile corrections officer.<ref name="Bio"/> After his parents divorced during his childhood, he moved with his mother to [[Brooklyn, New York]], where he was raised. His father saw him once a month.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800015265/bio | title = Laurence Fishbourne: Biography | work = Yahoo! Movies | access-date=January 31, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url = http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,171,00.html | title = Laurence Fishbourne: Flying Fish | work = Cigar Aficionado | author = Paul Chutkow | access-date=May 24, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607211020/http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,171,00.html | archive-date=June 7, 2007}}</ref> Fishburne is a graduate of Lincoln Square Academy in New York, which closed in the 1980s.<ref name="other"/>

In his 40s, Fishburne learned that Laurence John Fishburne, Jr. was not his biological father. In 2025, on an episode of ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', Fishburne learned that his biological father was a man named William Seigel Bohannan. Bohannan was a member of the U.S. military stationed at [[Fort Gordon]] when he met Fishburne's mother, who was a volunteer for the [[USO]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Finding Your Roots {{!}} Finding My Roots {{!}} Season 11 {{!}} Episode 10 |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/finding-my-roots-b7sruc/ |access-date=9 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref>