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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Graham Norton Show
Tony Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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
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
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Spidey Super Stories
Parkinson
Curiosity
30 for 30
War of the Worlds
How to Rob a Bank
Texas
Coming 2 America
The Oscars
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Lioness
Batman Begins
Harry & Son
Transcendence
The Dark Knight Rises
Now You See Me
That Was Then... This Is Now
Solos
The Dark Knight
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Ted 2
Olympus Has Fallen
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
March of the Penguins
Deep Impact
The Civil War
Now You See Me 2
Glory
Ben-Hur
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Lego Movie
London Has Fallen
The Atlanta Child Murders
Outbreak
Clean and Sober
Million Dollar Baby
Paradise Highway
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Unforgiven
RED
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Gone Baby Gone
The Sum of All Fears
Bruce Almighty
Angel Has Fallen
Last Knights
Evan Almighty
Wanted
A Good Person
57 Seconds
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Lucy
Under Suspicion
Gunner
The Shawshank Redemption
The Comeback Trail
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Unleashed
Last Vegas
Oblivion
Sniff
The Bucket List
Hard Rain
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Going in Style
Se7en
Life on Our Planet
Along Came a Spider
Dreamcatcher
The Ritual Killer
Lean On Me
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Caught in the Middle
Kiss the Girls
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
The Contract
Our Universe
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Thick as Thieves
Driving Miss Daisy
Production Credits
Along Came a Spider
Madam Secretary
Under Suspicion
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