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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.
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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.
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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
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
The Twilight Zone
Number One on the Call Sheet
Spidey Super Stories
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Parkinson
Solos
Curiosity
30 for 30
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
That Was Then... This Is Now
The Dark Knight
Harry & Son
Now You See Me
Transcendence
The Dark Knight Rises
Ted 2
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Olympus Has Fallen
The Civil War
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Deep Impact
March of the Penguins
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Ben-Hur
The Atlanta Child Murders
Now You See Me 2
London Has Fallen
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Lego Movie
Glory
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Unforgiven
Clean and Sober
Gone Baby Gone
Wanted
Million Dollar Baby
RED
Paradise Highway
Outbreak
Lucy
Evan Almighty
The Comeback Trail
The Shawshank Redemption
Bruce Almighty
The Sum of All Fears
Sniff
The Bucket List
Angel Has Fallen
Oblivion
A Good Person
Last Knights
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
57 Seconds
Gunner
Under Suspicion
Unleashed
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Last Vegas
Driving Miss Daisy
Thick as Thieves
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
The Contract
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Kiss the Girls
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Going in Style
Caught in the Middle
Dreamcatcher
Life on Our Planet
Se7en
Along Came a Spider
Lean On Me
Hard Rain
Our Universe
The Ritual Killer
Production Credits
Madam Secretary
Along Came a Spider
Under Suspicion
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