Morgan Freeman
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.
Movies (187)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
The Power of Chi
2025
From the Balkans
2024
Gunner
2024
How to Rob a Bank
2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
Odysseus Returns
2024
57 Seconds
2023
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023
A Good Person
2023
The Ritual Killer
2023
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022
Sidney
2022
Paradise Highway
2022
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
Power of Chi
2022
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
Vanquish
2021
Coming 2 America
2021
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2021
The Comeback Trail
2020
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020
Into Nature's Wild
2020
Angel Has Fallen
2019
Brian Banks
2019
The Poison Rose
2019
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
2019
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
America's Musical Journey
2018
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018
Just Getting Started
2017
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
The Words That Built America
2017
Going in Style
2017
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017
Ben-Hur
2016
The C Word
2016
Now You See Me 2
2016
London Has Fallen
2016
Momentum
2015
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015
Ted 2
2015
Last Knights
2015
Dolphin Tale 2
2014
Lucy
2014
5 Flights Up
2014
Wish Wizard
2014
Transcendence
2014
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
2014
The Lego Movie
2014
We the People
2014
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013
Last Vegas
2013
Now You See Me
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Oblivion
2013
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
Ending the Knight
2012
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
The Magic of Belle Isle
2012
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012
Dolphin Tale
2011
Conan the Barbarian
2011
Breaking the Taboo
2011
Born to Be Wild
2011
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010
RED
2010
The 16th Man
2010
The Eastwood Factor
2010
The People Speak
2009
Invictus
2009
The Maiden Heist
2009
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009
Thick as Thieves
2009
The Dark Knight
2008
The Love Guru
2008
Wanted
2008
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008
A Raisin in the Sun
2008
The Bucket List
2007
All About Us
2007
Feast of Love
2007
Gone Baby Gone
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Evan Almighty
2007
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006
Greasy Rider
2006
10 Items or Less
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
The Contract
2006
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
An Unfinished Life
2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Edison
2005
Born to Fight
2005
War of the Worlds
2005
Batman Begins
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Unleashed
2005
March of the Penguins
2005
Blues Divas
2005
Million Dollar Baby
2004
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004
The Hunting of the President
2004
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004
The Big Bounce
2004
Guilty by Association
2003
Declaration of Independence
2003
Bruce Almighty
2003
Dreamcatcher
2003
Levity
2003
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Partners of the Heart
2002
The Sum of All Fears
2002
High Crimes
2002
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001
Along Came a Spider
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Nurse Betty
2000
Under Suspicion
2000
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
Deep Impact
1998
Hard Rain
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
Amistad
1997
Kiss the Girls
1997
The Long Way Home
1997
Cosmic Voyage
1996
Chain Reaction
1996
Moll Flanders
1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996
Inside the White House
1996
Se7en
1995
Outbreak
1995
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
Unforgiven
1992
The Power of One
1992
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
The Earth Day Special
1990
Glory
1989
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
Johnny Handsome
1989
Lean On Me
1989
Clean and Sober
1988
Clinton and Nadine
1988
Fight for Life
1987
Street Smart
1987
Resting Place
1986
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985
The Gospel at Colonus
1985
Marie: A True Story
1985
Teachers
1984
Harry & Son
1984
The Marva Collins Story
1981
Eyewitness
1981
Death of a Prophet
1981
Brubaker
1980
Attica
1980
Hollow Image
1979
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
Out to Lunch
1974
Blade
1973
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968
A Man Called Adam
1966
The Pawnbroker
1965
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TV Shows (72)
The Dinosaurs
2026
The American Revolution
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Life on Our Planet
2023
Lioness
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
The Muppets Mayhem
2023
Our Universe
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
Solos
2021
Solos
2021
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Madam Secretary
2014
Madam Secretary
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Curiosity
2011
Through the Wormhole
2010
30 for 30
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Live from Studio Five
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Reichen Show
2005
Slavery and the Making of America
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Mark Twain Prize
1999
Parkinson
1998
The View
1997
The Chris Rock Show
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
HBO First Look
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
The Civil War
1990
American Experience
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Masters
1986
The Twilight Zone
1985
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
Saturday Night Live
1975
Spidey Super Stories
1974
Spidey Super Stories
1974
Spidey Super Stories
1974
Spidey Super Stories
1974
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Electric Company
1971
Great Performances
1971
60 Minutes
1968
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944