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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.
Personal Info
Known For
Filmography
The Dinosaurs
Self - Narrator (voice)
2026TV
The Gray House
Executive Producer
2026TV
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Thaddeus Bradley
2025Movie
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Self
2025Movie
The Power of Chi
(narrator)
2025Movie
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
2025TV
The American Revolution
(voice)
2025TV
In Our Blood
Executive Producer
2025Movie
Gunner
Kendrick Ryker
2024Movie
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dr. Cole
2024Movie
Odysseus Returns
Narrator
2024Movie
From the Balkans
(narrator)
2024Movie
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
Executive Producer
2024Movie
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Self
2023Movie
57 Seconds
Anton Burrell
2023Movie
A Good Person
Daniel
2023Movie
The Ritual Killer
Dr. Mackles
2023Movie
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023TV
Lioness
Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
2023TV
The Muppets Mayhem
Morgan Freeman
2023TV
Life on Our Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023TV
LEGEND
2023TV
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Executive Producer
2023Movie
Betty White: A Celebration
Self
2022Movie
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
2022Movie
Paradise Highway
Gerick
2022Movie
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
2022Movie
Sidney
Self
2022Movie
Power of Chi
Narrator (voice)
2022Movie
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022Movie
VM-krönika 2022
Self (archive footage)
2022Movie
Our Universe
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022TV
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
2022TV
Ogun Óla: War is Coming
Producer
2022Movie
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
Self
2021Movie
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Senior
2021Movie
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self
2021Movie
Vanquish
Damon
2021Movie
Coming 2 America
Morgan Freeman
2021Movie
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
2021Movie
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
2021TV
Solos
Narrator (voice)
2021TV
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
2021TV
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Executive Producer
2021Movie
The Comeback Trail
Reggie Fontaine
2020Movie
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Self
2020Movie
Into Nature's Wild
Narrator (voice)
2020Movie
Meeting the Beatles in India
Narrator (voice)
2020Movie
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
Self
2019Movie
Angel Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
2019Movie
The Poison Rose
Doc
2019Movie
Brian Banks
Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
2019Movie
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Morgan Freeman (voice)
2019TV
Die Clint Eastwood Story
Self
2018Movie
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Drosselmeyer
2018Movie
America's Musical Journey
Narrator (voice)
2018Movie
The Kominsky Method
Morgan Freeman
2018TV
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
2017Movie
Going in Style
Willie Davis
2017Movie
Just Getting Started
Duke
2017Movie
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017Movie
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
2017Movie
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Narrator (English voice)
2017Movie
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
2017TV
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
Self
2017TV
London Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
2016Movie
Now You See Me 2
Thaddeus Bradley
2016Movie
Ben-Hur
Sheik Ilderim
2016Movie
The C Word
Narrator (voice)
2016Movie
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
2016TV
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Self - Guest
2016TV
Last Knights
Bartok
2015Movie
Ted 2
Patrick Meighan
2015Movie
Momentum
Senator
2015Movie
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Narrator (voice)
2015Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015TV
Transcendence
Joseph Tagger
2014Movie
The Lego Movie
Vitruvius (voice)
2014Movie
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
Narrator (voice)
2014Movie
Lucy
Professor Norman
2014Movie
Dolphin Tale 2
Dr. Cameron McCarthy
2014Movie
5 Flights Up
Alex Carver
2014Movie
Wish Wizard
Maxwell Omni
2014Movie
We the People
Narrator (voice)
2014Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014TV
Madam Secretary
Chief Justice Frawley
2014TV
5 Flights Up
Producer
2014Movie
Madam Secretary
Director
2014TV
Madam Secretary
Executive Producer
2014TV
Oblivion
Beech
2013Movie
Now You See Me
Thaddeus Bradley
2013Movie
Olympus Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
2013Movie
Last Vegas
Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
2013Movie
JFK: A President Betrayed
Narrator (voice)
2013Movie
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
2013Movie
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
Narrator (voice)
2013Movie
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013Movie
The Dark Knight Rises
Fox
2012Movie
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
Self
2012Movie
The Magic of Belle Isle
Monte Wildhorn
2012Movie
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Narrator (voice)
2012Movie
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Self
2012Movie
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
Narratore
2012Movie
Ending the Knight
Self
2012Movie
Dolphin Tale
Dr. McCarthy
2011Movie
Born to Be Wild
Narrator (voice)
2011Movie
Breaking the Taboo
Narrator (voice)
2011Movie
Clint Eastwood's West
Self
2011Movie
Conan the Barbarian
Narrator (voice)
2011Movie
Curiosity
Self - Narrator (voice)
2011TV
RED
Joe Matheson
2010Movie
The Eastwood Factor
Self - Narrator (voice)
2010Movie
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Narrator (voice)
2010Movie
The 16th Man
Narrator (voice)
2010Movie
Through the Wormhole
Self - Host
2010TV
The 16th Man
Producer
2010Movie
Through the Wormhole
Producer
2010TV
Through the Wormhole
Executive Producer
2010TV
Invictus
Nelson Mandela
2009Movie
The Maiden Heist
Charles Peterson
2009Movie
The People Speak
Self
2009Movie
Thick as Thieves
Keith Ripley
2009Movie
Prom Night in Mississippi
Narrator (voice)
2009Movie
The Jay Leno Show
Self
2009TV
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009TV
30 for 30
2009TV
Invictus
Executive Producer
2009Movie
The Dark Knight
Lucius Fox
2008Movie
Wanted
Sloan
2008Movie
A Raisin in the Sun
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2008Movie
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008Movie
The Love Guru
Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)
2008Movie
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
Self
2008Movie
Evan Almighty
God
2007Movie
Gone Baby Gone
Jack Doyle
2007Movie
The Bucket List
Carter Chambers
2007Movie
Feast of Love
Harry Stevenson
2007Movie
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007Movie
All About Us
Self
2007Movie
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007TV
Lucky Number Slevin
The Boss
2006Movie
The Contract
Frank Carden
2006Movie
10 Items or Less
'Him'
2006Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
2006Movie
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Self
2006Movie
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
2006Movie
Greasy Rider
2006Movie
War of the Worlds
Narrator (voice)
2005Movie
Batman Begins
Lucius Fox
2005Movie
Unleashed
Sam
2005Movie
Edison
Ashford
2005Movie
An Unfinished Life
Mitch Bradley
2005Movie
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Neil Armstrong (voice)
2005Movie
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self
2005Movie
Blues Divas
Self
2005Movie
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005Movie
James Lipton Takes on Three
Self
2005Movie
Born to Fight
Self
2005Movie
March of the Penguins
Narrator
2005Movie
Slavery and the Making of America
Self - Narrator (voice)
2005TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005TV
The Reichen Show
Self - Guest
2005TV
Million Dollar Baby
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
2004Movie
The Hunting of the President
Narrator (voice)
2004Movie
The Big Bounce
Walter Crewes
2004Movie
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Self
2004Movie
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004Movie
America Beyond the Color Line
Self
2004TV
Bruce Almighty
God
2003Movie
Levity
Miles Evans
2003Movie
Dreamcatcher
Col. Abraham Curtis
2003Movie
Guilty by Association
Lt. Redding
2003Movie
Declaration of Independence
Self
2003Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003TV
Levity
Executive Producer
2003Movie
The Sum of All Fears
DCI William Cabot
2002Movie
High Crimes
Charlie Grimes
2002Movie
Partners of the Heart
Narrator (voice)
2002Movie
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
2002Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002Movie
Along Came a Spider
Alex Cross
2001Movie
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
Self
2001Movie
Along Came a Spider
Executive Producer
2001Movie
Under Suspicion
Captain Victor Benezet
2000Movie
Nurse Betty
Charlie
2000Movie
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Narrator (voice)
2000Movie
Under Suspicion
Executive Producer
2000Movie
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Self
1999Movie
Mark Twain Prize
Self
1999TV
Mutiny
Executive Producer
1999Movie
Hard Rain
Jim
1998Movie
Deep Impact
President Tom Beck
1998Movie
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Self
1998Movie
Parkinson
Self
1998TV
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Thanks
1998Movie
Amistad
Theodore Joadson
1997Movie
Kiss the Girls
Det. Alex Cross
1997Movie
The Long Way Home
Narrator (voice)
1997Movie
The Making of Se7en
Self
1997Movie
The View
Self
1997TV
The Chris Rock Show
1997TV
Chain Reaction
Paul Shannon
1996Movie
Cosmic Voyage
Narrator (voice)
1996Movie
Moll Flanders
Hibble
1996Movie
Inside the White House
Narrator (voice)
1996Movie
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Edward G. Robinson
1996Movie
The Daily Show
Self
1996TV
Se7en
Somerset
1995Movie
Outbreak
General Billy Ford
1995Movie
The Shawshank Redemption
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
1994Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993TV
Bopha!
Director
1993Movie
Unforgiven
Ned Logan
1992Movie
The Power of One
Geel Piet
1992Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
1992Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
1992TV
HBO First Look
1992TV
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Azeem
1991Movie
The True Story of Glory Continues
Narrator (voice)
1991Movie
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Self
1991Movie
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Narrator (voice)
1991Movie
Pebble Mill
Self
1991TV
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Narrator (voice)
1990Movie
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Judge Leonard White
1990Movie
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990Movie
The Earth Day Special
Walter Samson
1990Movie
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
Narrator (voice)
1990Movie
The Civil War
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
1990TV
Driving Miss Daisy
Hoke Colburn
1989Movie
Johnny Handsome
Lt. A.Z. Drones
1989Movie
Glory
Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
1989Movie
Lean On Me
Principal Joe Clark
1989Movie
Clean and Sober
Craig
1988Movie
Clinton and Nadine
Dorsey Pratt
1988Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988TV
Street Smart
Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
1987Movie
Fight for Life
Dr. Sherard
1987Movie
Resting Place
Luther Johnson
1986Movie
American Masters
Narrator (voice)
1986TV
That Was Then... This Is Now
Charlie Woods
1985Movie
Marie: A True Story
Charles Traughber
1985Movie
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Warden Pratt
1985Movie
The Gospel at Colonus
Messenger
1985Movie
The Twilight Zone
Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
1985TV
The Atlanta Child Murders
Ben Shelter
1985TV
Teachers
Lewis
1984Movie
Harry & Son
Siemanowski
1984Movie
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984TV
Eyewitness
Lieutenant Black
1981Movie
Death of a Prophet
Malcolm X
1981Movie
The Marva Collins Story
Clarence Collins
1981Movie
Brubaker
Walter
1980Movie
Attica
Hap Richards
1980Movie
Hollow Image
Sweet Talk
1979Movie
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979TV
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer
1978Movie
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978TV
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer
1978TV
Out to Lunch
Self / Croupier
1974Movie
Energy Crisis
Self
1974Movie
Spidey Super Stories
Police officer
1974TV
Blade
Chris
1973Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973TV
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
Afro
1971Movie
The Electric Company
Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
1971TV
Great Performances
Messenger
1971TV
Caught in the Middle
1970Movie
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Grand Central Commuter (uncredited)
1968Movie
60 Minutes
Self
1968TV
A Man Called Adam
Party Guest (uncredited)
1966Movie
The Pawnbroker
Man on Street (Uncredited)
1965Movie
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
1956TV
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
1953TV
Today
Self
1952TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence
1951TV
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944TV
Sniff
Joe Mulwray
—Movie
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
Narrator (voice)
—Movie
The Little Bedroom
—Movie
Hate to See You Go
Sonny Bell
—Movie
A New Birth of Freedom
Narrator
—Movie
The Promised Land
Narrator (voice)
—TV
Hate to See You Go
Producer
—Movie
Last Meals
Producer
—Movie
Break Out
Executive Producer
—Movie