
Morgan Freeman
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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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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tony Awards

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

60 Minutes

Honest Trailers

Today

The Graham Norton Show

The Jay Leno Show

The Chris Rock Show

CBS News Sunday Morning

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Kennedy Center Honors

HBO First Look

The Muppets Mayhem

The Twilight Zone

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Number One on the Call Sheet

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Spidey Super Stories

30 for 30

War of the Worlds

How to Rob a Bank

Texas

The Oscars

Coming 2 America

Lioness

Batman Begins

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

Now You See Me

Solos

The Dark Knight

Harry & Son

The Dark Knight Rises

Transcendence

That Was Then... This Is Now

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Olympus Has Fallen

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Ted 2

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Deep Impact

The Civil War

The Lego Movie

My Dead Friend Zoe

London Has Fallen

Ben-Hur

March of the Penguins

Glory

The Atlanta Child Murders

Now You See Me 2

The Minute You Wake Up Dead

Unforgiven

Outbreak

Gone Baby Gone

Million Dollar Baby

Curiosity

Paradise Highway

RED

Clean and Sober

Evan Almighty

Wanted

Under Suspicion

Last Vegas

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Angel Has Fallen

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step

The Shawshank Redemption

The Comeback Trail

The Bucket List

The Sum of All Fears

Gunner

Sniff

Bruce Almighty

57 Seconds

Oblivion

Last Knights

A Good Person

Unleashed

Lucy

Se7en

Driving Miss Daisy

Dreamcatcher

Caught in the Middle

The Ritual Killer

The Contract

Along Came a Spider

Life on Our Planet

Going in Style

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

Hard Rain

Kiss the Girls

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Lean On Me

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

Our Universe
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