
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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Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Graham Norton Show

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 Oscars

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

60 Minutes

Honest Trailers

Today

The Jay Leno Show

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

30 for 30

War of the Worlds

Texas

How to Rob a Bank

Coming 2 America

Lioness

Batman Begins

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

The Dark Knight

Now You See Me

Harry & Son

That Was Then... This Is Now

Transcendence

The Dark Knight Rises

Solos

Olympus Has Fallen

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Ted 2

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Deep Impact

The Civil War

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Glory

Now You See Me 2

March of the Penguins

London Has Fallen

The Atlanta Child Murders

My Dead Friend Zoe

Ben-Hur

The Lego Movie

Clean and Sober

Million Dollar Baby

The Minute You Wake Up Dead

Gone Baby Gone

Paradise Highway

Outbreak

Unforgiven

Curiosity

RED

Wanted

Lucy

Unleashed

Under Suspicion

Oblivion

The Shawshank Redemption

Last Knights

The Sum of All Fears

A Good Person

The Comeback Trail

57 Seconds

Bruce Almighty

Angel Has Fallen

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step

Evan Almighty

Sniff

The Bucket List

Gunner

Last Vegas

Driving Miss Daisy

Hard Rain

Caught in the Middle

Life on Our Planet

The Ritual Killer

Going in Style

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

Lean On Me

The Contract

Kiss the Girls

Dreamcatcher

Se7en

Along Came a Spider

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Our Universe
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