Biography
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory, the biographical drama Lean on Me, and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (all 1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
In 1992, Freeman starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the western revenge film Unforgiven; this would be the first of several collaborations with Eastwood. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Freeman also starred in David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en (1995), and Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997). Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama Million Dollar Baby. In 2009, he received his fifth Oscar nomination for playing former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood's Invictus. Freeman is also known for his performance as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012).
In addition to acting, Freeman has directed the drama Bopha! (1993). He also founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre.
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Filmography
All 258
Movies 200
Self 79
TV Shows 58
Narrator 25
Voice 17
Producer 5
Director 2

Life on Our Planet (2023)

57 Seconds (2023)

761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers (2023)

Special Ops: Lioness (2023)

100 Years of Warner Bros. (2023)

The Muppets Mayhem (2023)

A Good Person (2023)

The Ritual Killer (2023)

Heroes & Villains (2022)

Our Universe (2022)

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend (2022)

The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022)

Ogun Óla: War is Coming (2022)

Sidney (2022)

Paradise Highway (2022)

Betty White: A Celebration (2022)

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (2021)

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021)

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

Solos (2021)

Vanquish (2021)

Coming 2 America (2021)

The Comeback Trail (2020)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read (2020)

Meeting the Beatles in India (2020)

The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020)

Into Nature's Wild (2020)

Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize (2020)

Angel Has Fallen (2019)

Brian Banks (2019)

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019)

The Poison Rose (2019)

Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United (2019)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

America's Musical Journey (2018)

Die Clint Eastwood Story (2018)

Just Getting Started (2017)

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017)

The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman (2017)

The Words That Built America (2017)

Going in Style (2017)

Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas (2017)

Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin (2017)

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2017)

Monochrome: Black, White & Blue (2017)

Ben-Hur (2016)

The C Word (2016)

Now You See Me 2 (2016)

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)

London Has Fallen (2016)

Momentum (2015)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness (2015)

Ted 2 (2015)

Last Knights (2015)

Madam Secretary (2014)

Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

5 Flights Up (2014)

Lucy (2014)

Wish Wizard (2014)

Transcendence (2014)

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)

Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)

The Lego Movie (2014)

We the People (2014)

The Mona Lisa Myth (2014)

JFK: A President Betrayed (2013)

Last Vegas (2013)

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2013)

Now You See Me (2013)

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)

Oblivion (2013)

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013)

The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan (2013)

Ending the Knight (2012)

B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo (2012)

Echoes 'Cross the Tracks (2012)

Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl (2012)

Dolphin Tale (2011)

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

Curiosity (2011)

Clint Eastwood's West (2011)

Breaking the Taboo (2011)

Born to Be Wild (2011)

Oprah's Master Class (2011)

The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office (2010)

RED (2010)

Through the Wormhole (2010)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)

The 16th Man (2010)

The Eastwood Factor (2010)

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010)

The People Speak (2009)

Invictus (2009)

30 for 30 (2009)

The Jay Leno Show (2009)

Live from Studio Five (2009)

The Maiden Heist (2009)

Prom Night in Mississippi (2009)

Thick as Thieves (2009)

Stephen Fry in America (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Wanted (2008)

Where the Water Meets the Sky (2008)

A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

The Bucket List (2007)

All About Us (2007)

Feast of Love (2007)

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)

Evan Almighty (2007)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits (2006)

10 Items or Less (2006)

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)

e² design (2006)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)

The Contract (2006)

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

The Reichen Show (2005)

Made in Hollywood (2005)

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon (2005)

An Unfinished Life (2005)

A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2005)

Edison (2005)

War of the Worlds (2005)

Batman Begins (2005)

Slavery and the Making of America (2005)

Unleashed (2005)

March of the Penguins (2005)

Blues Divas (2005)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Genius. A Night for Ray Charles (2004)

Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption (2004)

The Hunting of the President (2004)

Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation (2004)

America Beyond the Color Line (2004)

The Big Bounce (2004)

Freedom: A History of Us (2003)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)

Guilty by Association (2003)

Declaration of Independence (2003)

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Levity (2003)

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (2002)

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger (2002)

Partners of the Heart (2002)

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

High Crimes (2002)

Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature (2001)

Along Came a Spider (2001)

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)

Nurse Betty (2000)

Under Suspicion (2000)

Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune (2000)

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)

Deep Impact (1998)

Hard Rain (1998)

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)

Amistad (1997)

Kiss the Girls (1997)

The Long Way Home (1997)

The View (1997)

Leute heute (1997)

The Chris Rock Show (1997)

Cosmic Voyage (1996)

Chain Reaction (1996)

The Daily Show (1996)

Moll Flanders (1996)

Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial (1996)

Inside the White House (1996)

Se7en (1995)

Outbreak (1995)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

A Century of Cinema (1994)

Bopha! (1993)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Unforgiven (1992)

HBO First Look (1992)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

The Power of One (1992)

Pebble Mill (1991)

The True Story of Glory Continues (1991)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991)

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

The Civil War (1990)

Follow the Drinking Gourd (1990)

Night of 100 Stars III (1990)

The Earth Day Special (1990)

Glory (1989)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Lean On Me (1989)

American Experience (1988)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)

Clean and Sober (1988)

Clinton and Nadine (1988)

Fight for Life (1987)

Street Smart (1987)

American Masters (1986)

Resting Place (1986)

The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985)

That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)

The Twilight Zone (1985)

Marie (1985)

The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)

Teachers (1984)

Harry & Son (1984)

Artists at Work: A Film on the New Deal Art Projects (1982)

The Marva Collins Story (1981)

Eyewitness (1981)

Death of a Prophet (1981)

Texas (1980)

Brubaker (1980)

Attica (1980)

Hollow Image (1979)

Coriolanus (1979)

CBS News Sunday Morning (1979)

The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)

Saturday Night Live (1975)

Out to Lunch (1974)

Spidey Super Stories (1974)

Blade (1973)

Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (1971)

The Electric Company (1971)

Great Performances (1971)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

A Man Called Adam (1966)

Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)

The Pawnbroker (1964)

The Oscars (1953)

Today (1952)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

Rendezvous with Rama

Last Meals

The Gray House

The Little Bedroom

Hate to See You Go

My Dead Friend Zoe

The Promised Land

Now You See Me 3

Gunner

The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum

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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1937-06-01 (86 years old)
Place of birthMemphis, United States of America
Religionagnosticism
Height188-centimeter
Net worth$120 Million
RelativesE'Dena Hines
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also known asMorgan Porterfield Freeman Jr., Morgan J. Freeman, مورغان فريمان, 모건 프리먼, モーガン・フリーマン, Морган Фриман, Морган Фримен, มอร์แกน ฟรีแมน, 摩根·弗里曼, Μόργκαν Φρίμαν, مورگان فریمن, Морґан Фрімен, Μόργκαν Πόρτερφιλντ Φρίμαν Τζούνιορ, מורגן פרימן
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, Clarence Derwent Awards, Golden Globe Award, Silver Bear, AFI Life Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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