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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

Acting · Production · Directing

Born June 1, 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (86)
  • The Dinosaurs — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2025Clint Eastwood : la légende — Self
  • Number One on the Call Sheet — Self
  • 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Life on Our Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2022Betty White: A Celebration — Self
  • 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers — Self
  • Our Universe — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2022Sidney — Self
  • The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
  • 2022VM-krönika 2022 — Self (archive footage)
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
  • History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman — Self - Host
  • 2021Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking — Self
  • 2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It — Self
  • 2020The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II — Self
  • 2019Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United — Self
  • 2018Die Clint Eastwood Story — Self
  • 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
  • 2017Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies — Self
  • Monochrome: Black, White & Blue — Self
  • The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman — Self - Host
  • 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
  • The Story of God with Morgan Freeman — Self - Host
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story — Self
  • 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot — Self
  • 2012Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl — Self
  • 2012Echoes 'Cross the Tracks — Self
  • 2012Ending the Knight — Self
  • 2011Clint Eastwood's West — Self
  • Curiosity — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2010The Eastwood Factor — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Live from Studio Five — Self
  • The Jay Leno Show — Self
  • 2009The People Speak — Self
  • 2008Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman — Self
  • 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
  • 2007All About Us — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters — Self
  • 2006The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits — Self
  • 2005Blues Divas — Self
  • 2005Born to Fight — Self
  • 2005James Lipton Takes on Three — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2005Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast — Self
  • Slavery and the Making of America — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
  • The Reichen Show — Self - Guest
  • America Beyond the Color Line — Self
  • 2004Genius. A Night for Ray Charles — Self
  • 2003Declaration of Independence — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2002All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger — Self
  • 2002Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self
  • 2001Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature — Self
  • Mark Twain Prize — Self
  • 1999Stephen King: Shining in the Dark — Self
  • Parkinson — Self
  • 1997The Making of Se7en — Self
  • The View — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • 1992Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self
  • Pebble Mill — Self
  • 1991Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie — Self
  • 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
  • Goldene Kamera — Self
  • CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
  • The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
  • 1974Energy Crisis — Self
  • 1974Out to Lunch — Self / Croupier
  • The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
  • 60 Minutes — Self
  • Tony Awards — Self - Performer
  • The Oscars — Self - Presenter
  • Today — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
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