For the director, see Morgan J. Freeman.
\nMorgan Freeman<\/p>\n
Freeman in 2023
\nBorn June 1, 1937 (age 89)
\nMemphis, Tennessee, U.S.
\nOccupations
\nActorproducernarrator
\nYears active 1964\u2013present
\nOrganization Revelations Entertainment
\nWorks Full list
\nSpouses
\nJeanette Adair Bradshaw
\n\u200b
\n\u200b(m. 1967; div. 1979)\u200b
\nMyrna Colley-Lee
\n\u200b
\n\u200b(m. 1984; div. 2010)\u200b
\nChildren 4
\nAwards Full list
\nMilitary career
\nAllegiance United States
\nBranch United States Air Force
\nService years 1955\u20131959
\nRank Airman First Class
\nMorgan Freeman\u2019s voice
\nDuration: 32 seconds.0:32
\nfrom BBC Radio 4\u2019s The Film Programme, September 12, 2008.
\n[1]
\nSignature<\/p>\n
Morgan Freeman[2] (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers\u2019 poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.[3]<\/p>\n
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi, where he began acting in school plays. He studied theater 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\u2019s 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. In 1978, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Zeke in the Richard Wesley play The Mighty Gents.<\/p>\n
Freeman received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a former boxer in Clint Eastwood\u2019s sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). He was Oscar-nominated for Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009). He also performed in Glory (1989), Lean on Me (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Unforgiven (1992), Se7en (1995), Amistad (1997), Deep Impact (1998), Gone Baby Gone (2007), and The Bucket List (2007). He also portrayed Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan\u2019s Dark Knight trilogy (2005\u20132012) and acted in the action films Wanted (2008), Red (2010), Oblivion (2013), the Now You See Me films (2013\u20132025), and Lucy (2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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