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Morgan Freeman
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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 …
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Morgan Freeman's Filmography
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Nacrose
as Morgan Freeman
No Poster
Rode to Ruin
as Joseph Mulberry
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Thaddeus Bradley
No Poster
Clint Eastwood : la légende
as Self
The Power of Chi
as (narrator)
From the Balkans
as (narrator)
Gunner
as Kendrick Ryker
My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
as Narrator
57 Seconds
as Anton Burrell
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
as Self
A Good Person
as Daniel
The Ritual Killer
as Dr. Mackles
VM-krönika 2022
as Self (archive footage)
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
as Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Sidney
as Self
Paradise Highway
as Gerick
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
as Self
Betty White: A Celebration
as Self
Power of Chi
as Narrator (voice)
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
as Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
as Senior
Vanquish
as Damon
Coming 2 America
as Morgan Freeman
The Comeback Trail
as Reggie Fontaine
Meeting the Beatles in India
as Narrator (voice)
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
as Self
Into Nature's Wild
as Narrator (voice)
Angel Has Fallen
as Alan Trumbull
Brian Banks
as Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
The Poison Rose
as Doc
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
as Self
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Drosselmeyer
America's Musical Journey
as Narrator (voice)
Die Clint Eastwood Story
as Self
Just Getting Started
as Duke
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
as Self
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
as Self
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Going in Style
as Willie Davis
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
as Narrator (English voice)
Ben-Hur
as Sheik Ilderim
The C Word
as Narrator (voice)
Now You See Me 2
as Thaddeus Bradley
London Has Fallen
as Alan Trumbull
Momentum
as Senator
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
as Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
as Patrick Meighan
Last Knights
as Bartok
Dolphin Tale 2
as Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Lucy
as Professor Norman
5 Flights Up
as Alex Carver
Wish Wizard
as Maxwell Omni
Transcendence
as Joseph Tagger
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
as Narrator (voice)
The Lego Movie
as Vitruvius (voice)
We the People
as Narrator (voice)
JFK: A President Betrayed
as Narrator (voice)
Last Vegas
as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
Now You See Me
as Thaddeus Bradley
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
Oblivion
as Beech
Olympus Has Fallen
as Alan Trumbull
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
as Self
No Poster
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
as Narrator (voice)
Ending the Knight
as Self
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
as Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
as Fox
The Magic of Belle Isle
as Monte Wildhorn
No Poster
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
as Narratore
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
as Self
No Poster
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
as Self
Dolphin Tale
as Dr. McCarthy
Conan the Barbarian
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Clint Eastwood's West
as Self
Breaking the Taboo
as Narrator (voice)
Born to Be Wild
as Narrator (voice)
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
as Narrator (voice)
RED
as Joe Matheson
The 16th Man
as Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
as Self
Invictus
as Nelson Mandela
The Maiden Heist
as Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi
as Narrator (voice)
Thick as Thieves
as Keith Ripley
The Dark Knight
as Lucius Fox
The Love Guru
as Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)
Wanted
as Sloan
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
as Self
Where the Water Meets the Sky
A Raisin in the Sun
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Bucket List
as Carter Chambers
All About Us
as Self
Feast of Love
as Harry Stevenson
Gone Baby Gone
as Jack Doyle
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
Evan Almighty
as God
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
as Self
Greasy Rider
10 Items or Less
as 'Him'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
The Contract
as Frank Carden
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Boss
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
as Neil Armstrong (voice)
An Unfinished Life
as Mitch Bradley
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self
Edison
as Ashford
No Poster
James Lipton Takes on Three
as Self
Born to Fight
as Self
War of the Worlds
as Narrator (voice)
Batman Begins
as Lucius Fox
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Unleashed
as Sam
March of the Penguins
as Narrator
Blues Divas
as Self
Million Dollar Baby
as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
as Self
The Hunting of the President
as Narrator (voice)
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
The Big Bounce
as Walter Crewes
Guilty by Association
as Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
as Self
Bruce Almighty
as God
Dreamcatcher
as Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
as Miles Evans
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
as Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
Partners of the Heart
as Narrator (voice)
The Sum of All Fears
as DCI William Cabot
High Crimes
as Charlie Grimes
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
as Self
Along Came a Spider
as Alex Cross
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Narrator (voice)
Nurse Betty
as Charlie
Under Suspicion
as Captain Victor Benezet
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
as Self
Deep Impact
as President Tom Beck
Hard Rain
as Jim
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self
Amistad
as Theodore Joadson
Kiss the Girls
as Det. Alex Cross
The Long Way Home
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
The Making of Se7en
as Self
Cosmic Voyage
as Narrator (voice)
Chain Reaction
as Paul Shannon
Moll Flanders
as Hibble
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
as Edward G. Robinson
Inside the White House
as Narrator (voice)
Se7en
as Somerset
Outbreak
as General Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
Unforgiven
as Ned Logan
The Power of One
as Geel Piet
The True Story of Glory Continues
as Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Azeem
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
as Self
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
as Narrator (voice)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as Judge Leonard White
Follow the Drinking Gourd
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
as Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
The Earth Day Special
as Walter Samson
Glory
as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy
as Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome
as Lt. A.Z. Drones
Lean On Me
as Principal Joe Clark
Clean and Sober
as Craig
Clinton and Nadine
as Dorsey Pratt
Fight for Life
as Dr. Sherard
Street Smart
as Leo 'Fast Black' Smalls, Jr.
Resting Place
as Luther Johnson
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Warden Pratt
That Was Then... This Is Now
as Charlie Woods
The Gospel at Colonus
as Messenger
Marie: A True Story
as Charles Traughber
Teachers
as Lewis
Harry & Son
as Siemanowski
The Marva Collins Story
as Clarence Collins
Eyewitness
as Lieutenant Black
Death of a Prophet
as Malcolm X
Brubaker
as Walter
Attica
as Hap Richards
Hollow Image
as Sweet Talk
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Uncle Hammer
Out to Lunch
as Self / Croupier
No Poster
Energy Crisis
as Self
Blade
as Chris
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
as Afro
No Poster
Caught in the Middle
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
as Grand Central Commuter (uncredited)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
as Grand Central Commuter
A Man Called Adam
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pawnbroker
as Man on Street (Uncredited)
No Poster
Sniff
as Joe Mulwray
No Poster
Hate to See You Go
as Sonny Bell
No Poster
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
The Little Bedroom
No Poster
A New Birth of Freedom
as Narrator