
Morgan Freeman
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Biography
Morgan Freeman 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.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Tony Awards

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

60 Minutes

Honest Trailers

The Graham Norton Show

Today

Pebble Mill

The Jay Leno Show

Madam Secretary

The Chris Rock Show

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Kennedy Center Honors

HBO First Look

The Muppets Mayhem

The Twilight Zone

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Number One on the Call Sheet

Spidey Super Stories

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Parkinson

Solos

30 for 30

Curiosity

War of the Worlds

Coming 2 America

Texas

How to Rob a Bank

The Oscars

Lioness

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

Batman Begins

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Now You See Me

The Dark Knight

Harry & Son

The Dark Knight Rises

That Was Then... This Is Now

Transcendence

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Ted 2

Olympus Has Fallen

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

Deep Impact

March of the Penguins

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

The Civil War

Glory

Ben-Hur

The Lego Movie

The Atlanta Child Murders

My Dead Friend Zoe

Now You See Me 2

London Has Fallen

Outbreak

Million Dollar Baby

Paradise Highway

Gone Baby Gone

Wanted

Unforgiven

The Minute You Wake Up Dead

Clean and Sober

RED

The Shawshank Redemption

Angel Has Fallen

The Comeback Trail

Gunner

Oblivion

Sniff

Last Vegas

Bruce Almighty

Lucy

A Good Person

Under Suspicion

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step

Evan Almighty

The Sum of All Fears

The Bucket List

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

57 Seconds

Last Knights

Unleashed

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Dreamcatcher

Kiss the Girls

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Lean On Me

Driving Miss Daisy

Caught in the Middle

Life on Our Planet

Thick as Thieves

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

Hard Rain

Se7en

Along Came a Spider

The Contract

Going in Style

The Ritual Killer

Our Universe

Hallmark Hall of Fame
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