Morgan Freeman
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Now You See Me 3 as Thaddeus Bradley
- 2025 · My Dead Friend Zoe as Dr. Cole
- 2024 · Gunner as Kendrick Ryker
- 2024 · How to Rob a Bank as Azeem (archive footage)
- 2022 · Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Sidney as Self
- 2021 · History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman as Self - Host
- 2020 · Meeting the Beatles in India as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II as Self
- 2020 · Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize as Self
- 2017 · The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman as Self - Host
- 2017 · The Words That Built America as Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence
- 2017 · March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step as Narrator (english voice)
- 2016 · The C Word as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · 5 Flights Up as Alex Carver
- 2014 · Island of Lemurs: Madagascar as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2012 · B.B. King: The Life of Riley as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Curiosity as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Breaking the Taboo as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Born to Be Wild as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2008 · A Raisin in the Sun as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2006 · The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits as Self
- 2006 · 10 Items or Less as 'Him'
- 2005 · Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon as Neil Armstrong (voice)
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · Slavery and the Making of America as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Genius. A Night for Ray Charles as Self
- 2004 · America Beyond the Color Line as Self
- 2004 · The Big Bounce as Walter Crewes
- 2003 · Levity as Miles Evans
- 2001 · Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature as Self
- 2000 · Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Nurse Betty as Charlie
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1998 · Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Self
- 1997 · Amistad as Theodore Joadson
- 1997 · The Long Way Home as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · Cosmic Voyage as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1991 · The True Story of Glory Continues as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Walter Samson
- 1988 · Clean and Sober as Craig
- 1988 · Clinton and Nadine as Dorsey Pratt
- 1987 · Street Smart as Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
- 1986 · Resting Place as Luther Johnson
- 1985 · The Execution of Raymond Graham as Warden Pratt
- 1985 · That Was Then... This Is Now as Charlie Woods
- 1984 · Teachers as Lewis
- 1984 · Harry & Son as Siemanowski
- 1981 · Eyewitness as Lieutenant Black
- 1974 · Spidey Super Stories as Count Dracula
- 1974 · Spidey Super Stories as Easy Reader
- 1974 · Spidey Super Stories as Police officer
- 1974 · Spidey Super Stories as Umpire
- 1973 · Blade as Chris
- 1968 · Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? as Grand Central Commuter (uncredited)
- 1968 · Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? as Grand Central Commuter
- 1965 · The Pawnbroker as Man on Street (Uncredited)
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Clarence
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Luther
- Future · The Promised Land as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Betty White: A Celebration as Self
- 2021 · Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking as Self
- 2021 · Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers as Self
- 2018 · America's Musical Journey as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
- 2015 · JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · JFK: A President Betrayed as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Echoes 'Cross the Tracks as Self
- 2012 · Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl as Self
- 2010 · The 16th Man as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots as Self (voice)
- 2009 · The People Speak as Self
- 2009 · Prom Night in Mississippi as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Where the Water Meets the Sky as
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2005 · A Concert for Hurricane Relief as Self
- 2005 · Blues Divas as Self
- 2004 · The Hunting of the President as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation as
- 2003 · Guilty by Association as Lt. Redding
- 2003 · Declaration of Independence as Self
- 2002 · Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self
- 2002 · Partners of the Heart as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · Brooks and the Shawshank Redemption as Red
- 1991 · Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self
- 1991 · The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1987 · Fight for Life as Dr. Sherard
- 1981 · The Marva Collins Story as Clarence Collins
- 1978 · Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as Uncle Hammer
- Future · The Little Bedroom as
- 1974 · Out to Lunch as Self / Croupier
- Future · Sniff as Joe Mulwray
- 2024 · Odysseus Returns as Narrator
- 2023 · Life on Our Planet as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · 57 Seconds as Anton Burrell
- 2023 · 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers as Self
- 2023 · Lioness as Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
- 2023 · 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · The Muppets Mayhem as Morgan Freeman
- 2023 · A Good Person as Daniel
- 2023 · The Ritual Killer as Dr. Mackles
- 2022 · Our Universe as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Minute You Wake Up Dead as Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
- 2022 · Paradise Highway as Gerick
- 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- 2021 · Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It as Self
- 2021 · Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Senior
- 2021 · Solos as Stuart
- 2021 · Vanquish as Damon
- 2021 · Coming 2 America as Morgan Freeman
- 2020 · The Comeback Trail as Reggie Fontaine
- 2020 · Into Nature's Wild as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Angel Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull
- 2019 · Brian Banks as Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
- 2019 · Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? as Morgan Freeman (voice)
- 2019 · The Poison Rose as Doc
- 2019 · Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United as Self
- 2018 · The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Drosselmeyer
- 2018 · Die Clint Eastwood Story as Self
- 2017 · Just Getting Started as Duke
- 2017 · Going in Style as Willie Davis
- 2016 · Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim
- 2016 · Now You See Me 2 as Thaddeus Bradley
- 2016 · The Story of God with Morgan Freeman as Self - Host
- 2016 · London Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull
- 2015 · Momentum as Senator
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Ted 2 as Patrick Meighan
- 2015 · Last Knights as Bartok
- 2014 · Dolphin Tale 2 as Dr. Cameron McCarthy
- 2014 · Lucy as Professor Samuel Norman
- 2014 · Wish Wizard as Maxwell Omni
- 2014 · Transcendence as Joseph Tagger
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2014 · The Lego Movie as Vitruvius (voice)
- 2014 · We the People as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Last Vegas as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
- 2013 · The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Now You See Me as Thaddeus Bradley
- 2013 · Oblivion as Beech
- 2013 · Olympus Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull
- 2013 · Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot as Self
- 2013 · The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Ending the Knight as Self
- 2012 · The Dark Knight Rises as Fox
- 2012 · The Magic of Belle Isle as Monte Wildhorn
- 2012 · Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo as Narratore
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Lucius Fox (archive footage)
- 2011 · Dolphin Tale as Dr. McCarthy
- 2011 · Conan the Barbarian as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Clint Eastwood's West as Self
- 2010 · The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · RED as Joe Matheson
- 2010 · Through the Wormhole as Self - Host
- 2010 · Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · The Eastwood Factor as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Invictus as Nelson Mandela
- 2009 · 30 for 30 as
- 2009 · The Jay Leno Show as Self
- 2009 · The Maiden Heist as Charles Peterson
- 2009 · Thick as Thieves as Keith Ripley
- 2008 · The Dark Knight as Lucius Fox
- 2008 · Wanted as Sloan
- 2007 · The Bucket List as Carter Chambers
- 2007 · All About Us as Self
- 2007 · Feast of Love as Harry Stevenson
- 2007 · Gone Baby Gone as Jack Doyle
- 2007 · Evan Almighty as God
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
- 2006 · The Contract as Frank Carden
- 2006 · Lucky Number Slevin as The Boss
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · An Unfinished Life as Mitch Bradley
- 2005 · Edison as Ashford
- 2005 · War of the Worlds as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Batman Begins as Lucius Fox
- 2005 · Unleashed as Sam
- 2005 · March of the Penguins as Narrator (English voice)
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Million Dollar Baby as Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Bruce Almighty as God
- 2003 · Dreamcatcher as Col. Abraham Curtis
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger as Self
- 2002 · The Sum of All Fears as DCI William Cabot
- 2002 · High Crimes as Charlie Grimes
- 2001 · Along Came a Spider as Alex Cross
- 2000 · Under Suspicion as Captain Victor Benezet
- 1999 · Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
- 1998 · Deep Impact as President Tom Beck
- 1998 · Hard Rain as Jim
- 1997 · Kiss the Girls as Alex Cross
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The Chris Rock Show as
- 1996 · Chain Reaction as Paul Shannon
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Moll Flanders as Hibble
- 1996 · Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial as Edward G. Robinson
- 1996 · Inside the White House as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · Se7en as Somerset
- 1995 · Outbreak as General Billy Ford
- 1994 · The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Unforgiven as Ned Logan
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
- 1992 · The Power of One as Geel Piet
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Azeem
- 1990 · The Bonfire of the Vanities as Judge Leonard White
- 1990 · The Civil War as Frederick Douglass
- 1990 · Follow the Drinking Gourd as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · Glory as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
- 1989 · Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn
- 1989 · Johnny Handsome as Lt. A.Z. Drones
- 1989 · Lean On Me as Principal Joe Clark
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1986 · American Masters as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 · The Gospel at Colonus as Messenger
- 1985 · The Twilight Zone as Tony
- 1985 · Marie: A True Story as Charles Traughber
- 1985 · The Atlanta Child Murders as Ben Shelter
- 1981 · Death of a Prophet as Malcolm X
- 1980 · Brubaker as Walter
- 1980 · Attica as Hap Richards
- 1979 · Hollow Image as Sweet Talk
- 1979 · CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1978 · Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as Uncle Hammer
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1971 · Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! as Afro
- 1971 · The Electric Company as Mad Scientist
- 1971 · The Electric Company as Easy Reader
- 1971 · The Electric Company as Count Dracula
- 1971 · Great Performances as Messenger
- Future · Hate to See You Go as Sonny Bell
- Future · CLINT as Narrator (voice)
- Future · The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum as Narrator (voice)
- 1970 · Caught in the Middle as
- 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
- 1966 · A Man Called Adam as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee