
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere) and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Sr., a barber who died in 1961 from liver cirrhosis. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. He has three older siblings. Freeman's family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, currently Threadgill Elementary School, in Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street High School, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force. Freeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring music group. Freeman acted in a touring company version of The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and also appeared as an extra in the 1965 film The Pawnbroker. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967, opposite Viveca Lindfors in The Nigger Lovers (about the civil rights era "Freedom Riders"), before debuting on Broadway in 1968's all-black version of Hello, Dolly!, which also starred Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway. Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967, until 1979. He married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984. The couple separated in December 2007. Freeman's attorney and business partner, Bill Luckett, announced in August 2008 that Freeman and his wife are in the process of divorce. He has two sons from previous relationships. He adopted his first wife's daughter and the couple also had a fourth child. Freeman lives in Charleston, Mississippi, and New York City. He has a private pilot's license, which he earned at age 65, and co-owns and operates Madidi, a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He officially opened his second Ground Zero in Memphis, Tennessee on April 24, 2008. Freeman has publicly criticized the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying, "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "white history month". Freeman once said on an interview with 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace: "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Film | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Drosselmeyer | 2018-10-26 |
Film | Laddie | Himself | 2017-10-20 |
Serial | Rabbit Ears Productions | Unknown | 2017 |
Film | Just Getting Started | Duke | 2017-12-01 |
Serial | The Marva Collins Story | Clarence Collins | 2016 |
Serial | Resting Place | Luther Johnson | 2016 |
Serial | Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution | Unknown | 2016 |
Serial | Mississippi Rising | Unknown | 2016 |
Film | Jaful perfect 2 | Thaddeus Bradley | 2016-06-02 |
Serial | Out to Lunch | Unknown | 2016 |
Film | Cod roșu la Londra | Vice President Alan Trumbull | 2016-03-02 |
Film | Ben-Hur | Sheik Ilderim | 2016-08-17 |
Film | Ultimii cavaleri | Bartok | 2015-04-03 |
Film | Ted 2 | Patrick Meighan | 2015-06-25 |
Film | Momentum | Senator | 2015-08-01 |
Film | Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | Narrator | 2014-04-03 |
Film | Marea aventură Lego | Vitruvius (voice) | 2014-02-06 |
Film | Noi oamenii | Narrator | 2014-01-06 |
Film | Viață după moarte | Joseph Tagger | 2014-04-16 |
Film | Povestea delfinului 2 | Dr. Cameron McCarthy | 2014-09-12 |
Film | Wish Wizard | Maxwell Omni | 2014-04-29 |
Film | 5 Flights Up | Alex Carver | 2014-09-05 |
Film | Lennon or McCartney | Himself (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
Film | Lucy | Professor Samuel Norman | 2014-07-25 |
Film | Cod roșu la Casa Albă | Speaker Trumbull | 2013-03-20 |
Film | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Himself | 2013-01-15 |
Film | The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan | Narrator | 2013-01-01 |
Film | Oblivion: Planeta uitată | Malcolm Beech | 2013-04-10 |
Film | Jaful perfect | Thaddeus Bradley | 2013-05-29 |
Film | JFK: A President Betrayed | Narrator | 2013-11-23 |
Film | Burlaci întârziați | Archie | 2013-10-31 |
Film | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Himself | 2013-04-27 |
Film | The Magic of Belle Isle | Monte Wildhorn | 2012-07-06 |
Film | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Himself | 2012-01-16 |
Film | Cavalerul negru: Legenda renaște | Fox | 2012-07-16 |
Film | B.B. King: The Life of Riley | 2012-10-15 | |
Film | Născut pentru a fi sălbatic | Narrator | 2011-04-08 |
Film | Breaking the Taboo | Narrator | 2011-06-03 |
Film | Conan barbarul | Narrator (voice) | 2011-08-17 |
Film | Povestea delfinului | Dr. McCarthy | 2011-09-23 |
Film | The Eastwood Factor | Narrator | 2010-02-16 |
Film | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
Serial | Prin gaura de vierme | Himself - Host | 2010-06-09 |
Film | Greu de pensionat | Joe Matheson | 2010-10-13 |
Film | The Maiden Heist | Charles | 2009-05-09 |
Film | Hoți de onoare | Keith Ripley | 2009-01-09 |
Film | Prom Night in Mississippi | Himself | 2009-01-15 |
Serial | În direct din studioul cinci | Unknown | 2009-09-14 |
Serial | 30 for 30 | Unknown | 2009-10-06 |
Film | Oamenii vorbesc | Himself | 2009-12-13 |
Film | Invictus | Nelson Mandela | 2009-12-10 |
Film | Doritul | Sloan | 2008-06-19 |
Film | A Raisin in the Sun | Narrator (uncredited) | 2008-02-25 |
Film | Gurul dragostei | (Voice) | 2008-06-20 |
Film | Cavalerul negru | Lucius Fox | 2008-07-16 |
Film | Evan atotputernicul | God | 2007-06-09 |
Film | Feast of Love | Harry Stevenson | 2007-09-28 |
Film | Dispărută fără urmă | Jack Doyle | 2007-10-19 |
Film | Lista ultimelor dorințe | Carter Chambers | 2007-12-25 |
Film | Norocosul numărul Slevin | The Boss | 2006-02-24 |
Film | 10 produse sau mai puțin | 'Him' | 2006-09-11 |
Film | Contractul | Frank Carden | 2006-04-05 |
Film | Marșul pinguinilor | Narrator | 2005-01-26 |
Film | Blues Divas | Himself | 2005-01-22 |
Film | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 2005-01-01 |
Film | Dezlegat | Sam | 2005-02-02 |
Film | O viață neterminată | Mitch Bradley | 2005-09-09 |
Film | Edison | Moses Ashford | 2005-07-29 |
Serial | Slavery and the Making of America | Narrator | 2005-02-09 |
Film | Războiul lumilor | Narrator (Voice) | 2005-06-28 |
Film | Batman începuturi | Lucius Fox | 2005-06-10 |
Film | The Big Bounce | Walter Crewes | 2004-01-30 |
Film | The Hunting of the President | Narrator | 2004-06-20 |
Film | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Himself | 2004-10-07 |
Film | O fată de milioane | Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris | 2004-12-15 |
Film | Dreamcatcher | Col. Abraham Curtis | 2003-03-21 |
Film | Levity | Miles Evans | 2003-03-16 |
Film | Vinovat prin asociere | Lt. Redding | 2003-07-22 |
Film | Bruce Atotputernicul | God | 2003-05-23 |
Serial | Emisiunea lui Ellen DeGeneres | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
Film | High Crimes | Charlie Grimes | 2002-04-05 |
Film | Suma tuturor fricilor | DCI William Cabot | 2002-05-31 |
Serial | Aventurile lui Jimmy Neutron: Băiețelul geniu | Unknown | 2002-07-20 |
Film | Along Came a Spider | Alex Cross | 2001-04-06 |
Film | Nurse Betty | Charlie | 2000-09-08 |
Film | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Himself | 2000-01-01 |
Film | Sub suspiciune | Captain Victor Benezet | 2000-09-24 |
Film | Clint Eastwood: Afară din umbre | Narrator (voice) | 2000-09-27 |
Serial | Familia mea dementă | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
Film | Stephen King: Strălucind în întuneric | Himself | 1999-09-09 |
Film | Hard Rain | Jim | 1998-01-16 |
Film | Impactul profund | President Tom Beck | 1998-05-08 |
Serial | Regele dealului | Unknown | 1997-01-12 |
Serial | Vederea | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
Film | The Long Way Home | Narrator | 1997-09-19 |
Film | Amistad | Theodore | 1997-12-03 |
Film | Sărută fetele | Alex Cross | 1997-10-03 |
Film | Moll Flanders | Hibble | 1996-06-14 |
Film | National Geographic: Inside the White House | Narrator | 1996-01-01 |
Film | Reacția în lanț | Paul Shannon | 1996-08-02 |
Film | Voiajul cosmic | Narrator (voice) | 1996-08-09 |
Film | Epidemie | Billy Ford | 1995-03-10 |
Film | Șapte | Detective Lt. William Somerset | 1995-09-22 |
Serial | În studioul actorilor | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
Film | Eliberarea din Shawshank | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding | 1994-09-23 |
Serial | Noaptea târziu cu Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Serial | Emisiunea de seară cu Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Film | The Power of One | Geel Piet | 1992-09-17 |
Film | Necruțătorul | Ned Logan | 1992-08-07 |
Film | Robin Hood: Prințul hoților | Azeem | 1991-06-14 |
Serial | Pebble Mill | Unknown | 1991-10-14 |
Film | The True Story of Glory Continues | Narrator | 1991-06-19 |
Serial | Războiul civil | Frederick Douglass | 1990-09-23 |
Film | Războiul civil | Frederick Douglass | 1990-09-23 |
Film | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Judge Leonard White | 1990-12-21 |
Film | Johnny Handsome | Lt. A.Z. Drones | 1989-09-12 |
Film | Lean On Me | Principal Joe Clark | 1989-03-03 |
Film | Șoferul doamnei Daisy | Hoke Colburn | 1989-12-13 |
Film | Gloria | Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins | 1989-12-15 |
Film | Blood Money | Dorsey Pratt | 1988-05-04 |
Film | Clean and Sober | Craig | 1988-08-10 |
Film | Street Smart | Fast Black | 1987-03-20 |
Film | Fight for Life | Dr. Sherard | 1987-03-23 |
Film | Resting Place | Luther Johnson | 1986-01-01 |
Film | Marie | Charles Traughber | 1985-09-27 |
Film | The Atlanta Child Murders | Ben Shelter | 1985-02-10 |
Serial | The Atlanta Child Murders | Ben Shelter | 1985-02-10 |
Film | The Execution of Raymond Graham | Warden Pratt | 1985-11-17 |
Film | That was Then... This is Now | Charlie Woods | 1985-11-08 |
Serial | Zona crepusculară | Unknown | 1985-09-27 |
Film | Harry & Son | Siemanowski | 1984-03-02 |
Film | Învățători | Lewis | 1984-10-05 |
Serial | În direct cu Regis și Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
Film | Death of a Prophet | Malcolm X | 1981-01-01 |
Film | The Marva Collins Story | Clarence Collins | 1981-12-01 |
Film | Martor ocular | Lieutenant Black | 1981-02-13 |
Film | Attica | Hap Richards | 1980-03-01 |
Serial | Texas | Detective Michaels | 1980-08-04 |
Film | Brubaker | Walter | 1980-06-20 |
Film | Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry | Uncle Hammer | 1978-11-12 |
Serial | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
Serial | Ryan's Hope | Cicero Murphy | 1975-07-07 |
Serial | The Electric Company | Easy Reader | 1971-10-25 |
Serial | Altă lume | 1964-05-04 | |
Serial | Premiile academiei | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
Serial | Astăzi | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |
Serial | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |