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