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Actor Laurence Fishburne speaks during UNICEF's Evening For Children First at The Foundry At Puritan Mill on March 17, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for UNICEF

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Actor Laurence Fishburne speaks during UNICEF's Evening For Children First at The Foundry At Puritan Mill on March 17, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for UNICEF
By Jennifer Brett
Sept 26, 2017

Georgia native Laurence Fishburne has a long and impressive list of film credits including a number of Atlanta-filmed projects, "Passengers," "Contagion" and "Ride Along" among them. Now he's back for Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp." He plays Bill Foster/Goliath in the super hero movie due out next year.

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