Morgan Freeman
- Birthday:
- 06/01/1937
- Place of birth:
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA:
- 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.
Credits
 | Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) as Thaddeus Bradley |
 | Clint Eastwood : la légende (2025) as Self |
 | The Power of Chi (2025) as (narrator) |
 | SBALKANU (2024) as (narrator) |
 | Gunner (2024) as Kendrick Ryker |
 | How to Rob a Bank (2024) as Azeem (archive footage) |
 | My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) as Dr. Cole |
 | Odysseus Returns (2024) as Narrator |
 | 57 Seconds (2023) as Anton Burrell |
 | 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers (2023) as Self |
 | A Good Person (2023) as Daniel |
 | The Ritual Killer (2023) as Dr. Mackles |
 | Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (2022) as Self (archive footage) |
 | The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022) as Sheriff Thurmond Fowler |
 | Sidney (2022) as Self |
 | Paradise Highway (2022) as Gerick |
 | Betty White: A Celebration (2022) as Self |
 | Power of Chi (2022) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021) as Self |
 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021) as Self |
 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) as Senior |
 | Vanquish (2021) as Damon |
 | Coming 2 America (2021) as Morgan Freeman |
 | Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers (2021) as Self |
 | The Comeback Trail (2020) as Reggie Fontaine |
 | Meeting the Beatles in India (2020) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020) as Self |
 | Into Nature's Wild (2020) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Angel Has Fallen (2019) as Alan Trumbull |
 | Brian Banks (2019) as Jerome Johnson (uncredited) |
 | The Poison Rose (2019) as Doc |
 | Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United (2019) as Self |
 | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) as Drosselmeyer |
 | America's Musical Journey (2018) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Die Clint Eastwood Story (2018) as Self |
 | Just Getting Started (2017) as Duke |
 | Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017) as Self |
 | John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017) as Self |
 | The Words That Built America (2017) as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence |
 | Going in Style (2017) as Willie Davis |
 | L'empereur (2017) as Narrator (English voice) |
 | Ben-Hur (2016) as Sheik Ilderim |
 | The C Word (2016) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Now You See Me 2 (2016) as Thaddeus Bradley |
 | London Has Fallen (2016) as Alan Trumbull |
 | Momentum (2015) as Senator |
 | JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness (2015) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Ted 2 (2015) as Patrick Meighan |
 | Last Knights (2015) as Bartok |
 | Dolphin Tale 2 (2014) as Dr. Cameron McCarthy |
 | Lucy (2014) as Professor Norman |
 | 5 Flights Up (2014) as Alex Carver |
 | Wish Wizard (2014) as Maxwell Omni |
 | Transcendence (2014) as Joseph Tagger |
 | Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Lego Movie (2014) as Vitruvius (voice) |
 | We the People (2014) as Narrator (voice) |
 | JFK: A President Betrayed (2013) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Last Vegas (2013) as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton |
 | Now You See Me (2013) as Thaddeus Bradley |
 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013) as Self |
 | Oblivion (2013) as Beech |
 | Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as Alan Trumbull |
 | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013) as Self |
| | The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan (2013) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Ending the Knight (2012) as Self |
 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Fox |
 | The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) as Monte Wildhorn |
| | Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo (2012) as Narratore |
 | Echoes 'Cross the Tracks (2012) as Self |
| | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl (2012) as Self |
 | Dolphin Tale (2011) as Dr. McCarthy |
 | Conan the Barbarian (2011) as Narrator (voice) |
| | Clint Eastwood's West (2011) as Self |
 | Quebrando o Tabu (2011) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Born to Be Wild (2011) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office (2010) as Narrator (voice) |
 | RED (2010) as Joe Matheson |
 | The 16th Man (2010) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Eastwood Factor (2010) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
 | The People Speak (2009) as Self |
 | Invictus (2009) as Nelson Mandela |
 | The Maiden Heist (2009) as Charles Peterson |
 | Prom Night in Mississippi (2009) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Thick as Thieves (2009) as Keith Ripley |
 | The Dark Knight (2008) as Lucius Fox |
 | Wanted (2008) as Sloan |
 | Where the Water Meets the Sky (2008) |
 | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
 | The Bucket List (2007) as Carter Chambers |
 | All About Us (2007) as Self |
 | Feast of Love (2007) as Harry Stevenson |
 | Gone Baby Gone (2007) as Jack Doyle |
 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007) as Self |
 | Evan Almighty (2007) as God |
 | The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits (2006) as Self |
 | Greasy Rider (2006) |
 | 10 Items or Less (2006) as 'Him' |
 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006) as Self |
 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006) as Jaques (segment "As You Like It") |
 | The Contract (2006) as Frank Carden |
 | Lucky Number Slevin (2006) as The Boss |
 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon (2005) as Neil Armstrong (voice) |
 | An Unfinished Life (2005) as Mitch Bradley |
 | Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast (2005) as Self |
 | Edison (2005) as Ashford |
| | James Lipton Takes on Three (2005) as Self |
 | Born to Fight (2005) as Self |
 | War of the Worlds (2005) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Batman Begins (2005) as Lucius Fox |
 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005) as Self (archive footage) |
 | Unleashed (2005) as Sam |
 | La Marche de l'empereur (2005) as Narrator |
 | Blues Divas (2005) as Self |
 | Million Dollar Baby (2004) as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris |
 | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles (2004) as Self |
 | The Hunting of the President (2004) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation (2004) |
 | The Big Bounce (2004) as Walter Crewes |
 | Guilty by Association (2003) as Lt. Redding |
 | Declaration of Independence (2003) as Self |
 | Bruce Almighty (2003) as God |
 | Dreamcatcher (2003) as Col. Abraham Curtis |
 | Levity (2003) as Miles Evans |
 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger (2002) as Self |
 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (2002) as Self |
 | Partners of the Heart (2002) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Sum of All Fears (2002) as DCI William Cabot |
 | High Crimes (2002) as Charlie Grimes |
 | Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature (2001) as Self |
 | Along Came a Spider (2001) as Alex Cross |
 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Nurse Betty (2000) as Charlie |
 | Under Suspicion (2000) as Captain Victor Benezet |
 | Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999) as Self |
 | Deep Impact (1998) as President Tom Beck |
 | Hard Rain (1998) as Jim |
 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998) as Self |
 | Amistad (1997) as Theodore Joadson |
 | Kiss the Girls (1997) as Det. Alex Cross |
 | The Long Way Home (1997) as Narrator (voice) |
| | The Making of Se7en (1997) as Self |
 | Cosmic Voyage (1996) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Chain Reaction (1996) as Paul Shannon |
 | Moll Flanders (1996) as Hibble |
 | Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial (1996) as Edward G. Robinson |
 | Inside the White House (1996) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Se7en (1995) as Somerset |
 | Outbreak (1995) as General Billy Ford |
 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding |
 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992) as Self |
 | Unforgiven (1992) as Ned Logan |
 | The Power of One (1992) as Geel Piet |
 | The True Story of Glory Continues (1991) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) as Azeem |
 | Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991) as Self |
 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991) as Narrator (voice) |
 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Judge Leonard White |
| | Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born (1990) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Follow the Drinking Gourd (1990) as Narrator (voice) |
 | Night of 100 Stars III (1990) as Self |
 | The Earth Day Special (1990) as Walter Samson |
 | Glory (1989) as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins |
 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) as Hoke Colburn |
 | Johnny Handsome (1989) as Lt. A.Z. Drones |
 | Lean On Me (1989) as Principal Joe Clark |
 | Clean and Sober (1988) as Craig |
 | Clinton and Nadine (1988) as Dorsey Pratt |
 | Fight for Life (1987) as Dr. Sherard |
 | Street Smart (1987) as Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr. |
 | Resting Place (1986) as Luther Johnson |
 | The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985) as Warden Pratt |
 | That Was Then... This Is Now (1985) as Charlie Woods |
 | The Gospel at Colonus (1985) as Messenger |
 | Marie: A True Story (1985) as Charles Traughber |
 | Teachers (1984) as Lewis |
 | Harry & Son (1984) as Siemanowski |
 | The Marva Collins Story (1981) as Clarence Collins |
 | Eyewitness (1981) as Lieutenant Black |
 | Death of a Prophet (1981) as Malcolm X |
 | Brubaker (1980) as Walter |
 | Attica (1980) as Hap Richards |
 | Hollow Image (1979) as Sweet Talk |
 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978) as Uncle Hammer |
 | Out to Lunch (1974) as Self / Croupier |
| | Energy Crisis (1974) as Self |
 | Blade (1973) as Chris |
 | Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (1971) as Afro |
| | Caught in the Middle (1970) |
 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) as Grand Central Commuter |
| | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) as Grand Central Commuter (uncredited) |
 | A Man Called Adam (1966) as Party Guest (uncredited) |
 | The Pawnbroker (1965) as Man on Street (Uncredited) |
| | The Little Bedroom |
| | The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum as Narrator (voice) |
| | Sniff as Joe Mulwray |
| | Hate to See You Go as Sonny Bell |
 | CLINT as Narrator (voice) |
 | In Our Blood Executive Producer |
| | 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers Executive Producer |
 | Ogun Óla: War is Coming Producer |
 | The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Executive Producer |
| | 5 Flights Up Producer |
| | The 16th Man Producer |
| | Invictus Executive Producer |
| | Levity Executive Producer |
| | Along Came a Spider Executive Producer |
| | Under Suspicion Executive Producer |
 | Mutiny Executive Producer |
| | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist Thanks |
 | Bopha! Director |
| | Hate to See You Go Producer |
| | Break Out Executive Producer |
 | Last Meals Producer |
 | Rendezvous with Rama Producer |
