Name	Clark
Meaning	Clerk, scribe, secretary
Region	England
Language	Old English
Related names	Clarke, Clerk
Footnotes	Frequency Comparisons }}

Clark is an English surname in the English language, ultimately derived from the Latin ''clericus'' meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated or a old man with a moustache. ''Clark'' evolved from "clerk". First records of the name are found in 12th century England. The name has many variants.

''Clark'' is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom.

According to the 1990 United States Census, ''Clark'' was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.

Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of Clark Gable.

List of people with surname Clark

People with the surname Clark include:

Abraham Clark (1725–1794), American politician and Revolutionary War figure

Alan Clark (1928–1999), British Conservative politician and author, son of Kenneth Clark

Allen George Clark (1898–1962), British businessman

Andy Clark (musician), British musician

Anne Clark (born 1960), poet-songwriter

Benjamin S. W. Clark (1829–1912), New York politician

Billy J. Clark (1778–1866), New York physician and politician

Bob Clark (Benjamin "Bob" Clark) (1941–2007), American director

Brian Clark (disambiguation), several people

Buddy Clark (1911–1949), American singer

Carmel Clark (born 1965), New Zealand swimmer

Catherine Clark (born 1976), Canadian television host

Charles Clark (disambiguation), several people

Chris Clark (disambiguation), several people

Christian Clark (born 1979), Australian actor

Claudine Clark, R&B; singer and performer of the 1962 hit record "Party Lights"

Colin Clark, British economist

Corrie Clark (born 1982), American breaststroke swimmer

Dallas Clark, American football player

Daniel Clark (Canadian politician and actor), Canadian actor

Daniel Kinnear Clark (1822–1896), British railway mechanical engineer

Darius Clark (1798–1871), New York physician and politician

Dave Clark (musician) (born 1942), drummer of The Dave Clark Five

David Clark (disambiguation), several people

Davis Wasgatt Clark (1812–1871), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Dick Clark (1929–2012), entertainer and producer, famous for hosting ''Pyramid'' and ''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve''

Dick Clark (disambiguation), several people

Douglas Clark (disambiguation), several people

Duncan Clark (1910–2007), an American public health specialist

Duncan Clark (athlete) (1915–2003), Scottish hammer thrower

Dwight Clark, American football player

Ernest Clark (1912–1994), British actor

Eugene Clark (disambiguation), several people

Frank Clark (footballer), English football player

Frank M. Clark (1915–2003), American Congressman

Gavin Brown Clark (1846–1930), MP for Caithness

George Clark (disambiguation), several people

Gerry Clark (1927–1999), New Zealand sailor and ornithologist

Ginger Clark (1879–1943), American baseball pitcher

Glenn Clark (born 1969), Canadian coach of Toronto Rock

Helen Clark (born 1950), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008

Hilda Clark (1872–1932), American Coca-Cola advertising spokesperson

Hugh Massey Clark (1886–1956), person of New York

Hilda Margery Clarke (born 1926), English painter and curator

Horace Clark, 1830s New York politician

Horace F. Clark (1815–1873), US Congressman from New York

Hulda Regehr Clark, alternative medicine practitioner

Isabella Clark, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald

Jack Clark (disambiguation), several people

James Clark (disambiguation), several people

Jeff Clark (disambiguation), several people

Joe Clark (born 1939), former Prime Minister of Canada

John Clark (disambiguation), several people

Jonas Gilman Clark (1815–1900), American businessman and the founder of Clark University

Joseph Clark (disambiguation), several people

Joshua Clark, (born 1980), American writer

Karen Clark (born 1945), American politician from Minnesota

Katy Clark (born 1967), British politician and trade union official

Kenneth Clark (psychologist) (1914–2005), African American psychologist who testified in ''Brown v. Board of Education''

Kenneth Clark (1902–1983), British art historian; creator of the series ''Civilisation''

Leslie J. Clark (1924–2003), British engineer and founder of Parvalux

Louis Clark, musician and conductor with the Orchestra (former members of ELO and ELO Part II)

Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australian historian

Marcus R. Clark (born 1956), Louisiana Supreme Court justice

Mark Wayne Clark (1896–1984), American Army General in WW2 (Italy) and the Korean War

Nancy B. Clark, person of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts

Naomi Clark, fictional character from The CW primetime drama 90210, the fourth series of the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise

Ocky Clark (born 1960), American middle distance runner

Orville Clark (1801–1862), New York politician

Otey Clark (born 1915), American baseball pitcher

Ramsey Clark (born 1927), American Attorney General and activist

Ranza Clark (born 1961), Canadian middle distance runner

Roger Clark, British rally driver

Ryan Clark (disambiguation), several people

Samuel Clark (disambiguation), several people

Samuel Delbert Clark (1910–2003), Canadian sociologist

Sherman Clark (1899–1980), American Olympic rower and Rear Admiral

Simon Clark, English horror novel writer

Steve Clark (1960–1991), British guitarist for Def Leppard

Stuart Clark (born 1975), Australian cricketer

Theresa Maria Clark (c. 1890 – 1953), person of New York

Thomas Clark (disambiguation), several people

Tom Clark (journalist), Canadian television journalist

Tom C. Clark (1899–1977), Attorney General of the United States, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, father of Attorney General Ramsey Clark

Tracy Clark, fictional character from The CW primetime drama 90210

Wendel Clark (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey player

Wesley K. Clark (born 1944), American Army General in the Vietnam War and Kosovo

Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1895–1971), British palaeanthropologist

Will Clark (born 1964), American baseball player

William Clark (disambiguation), several people

The Clark Sisters, American gospel vocalists from Detroit

References

External links

Clark(e) Surname DNA Project

See also

Clark (taxonomic authority)

Clarke

Clerke (disambiguation)

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Joe Clarke may refer to:

Joe Clarke (soccer) (born 1953), former U.S. soccer defender and collegiate soccer coach

Joe Clarke (hurler) (born 1952), Irish retired hurler

Joe Clarke (Irish republican) (1882–1976), Irish republican activist

See also

Joseph Clarke (disambiguation)

Joseph Clark (disambiguation)

name	Morgan Freeman
birth date	June 01, 1937
birth place	Memphis, Tennessee
spouse	Jeanette Adair Bradshaw (1967–79)Myrna Colley-Lee (1984–2010)
occupation	Actor, director, narrator
years active	1964–present }}

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. 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. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ''Unforgiven'', ''Glory'', ''Seven'', ''Deep Impact'', ''The Sum of All Fears'', ''Bruce Almighty'', ''Batman Begins'', ''March of the Penguins'', ''The Bucket List'', ''Wanted'', ''The Dark Knight'', and ''RED''.

Early life

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber who died April 27, 1961, from cirrhosis. He has three older siblings. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. His 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, later named 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, 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 musical theater 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.

Career

Acting career

Although his first credited film appearance was in 1971's ''Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?'', Freeman first became known in the American media through roles on the soap opera ''Another World'' and the PBS kids' show ''The Electric Company'', (notably as Easy Reader and Vincent the Vegetable Vampire) which he later said he should have left earlier than he did.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Freeman began playing prominent supporting roles in many feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise, fatherly characters. As he gained fame, he went on to bigger roles in films such as the chauffeur Hoke in ''Driving Miss Daisy'', and Sergeant Major Rawlins in ''Glory'' (both in 1989). In 1994 he portrayed Red, the redeemed convict in the acclaimed ''The Shawshank Redemption''. In the same year he was a member of the jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

He also starred in films such as ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', ''Unforgiven'', ''Seven'', and ''Deep Impact''. In 1997, Freeman, together with Lori McCreary, founded the film production company Revelations Entertainment, and the two co-head its sister online film distribution company ClickStar. Freeman also hosts the channel ''Our Space'' on ClickStar, with specially crafted film clips in which he shares his love for the sciences, especially space exploration and aeronautics.

After three previous nominations—a supporting actor nomination for ''Street Smart'', and leading actor nominations for ''Driving Miss Daisy'', and ''The Shawshank Redemption''—he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Million Dollar Baby'' at the 77th Academy Awards. Freeman is recognized for his distinctive voice, making him a frequent choice for narration. In 2005 alone, he provided narration for two films, ''War of the Worlds'' and the Academy Award-winning documentary film ''March of the Penguins''.

Freeman appeared as God in the hit film ''Bruce Almighty'' and its sequel, ''Evan Almighty'', as well as Lucius Fox in the critical and commercial success ''Batman Begins'' and its 2008 sequel, ''The Dark Knight''. He starred in Rob Reiner's 2007 film ''The Bucket List'', opposite Jack Nicholson. He teamed with Christopher Walken and William H. Macy for the comedy ''The Maiden Heist'', which was released direct to video due to financial problems of the distribution company. In 2008, Freeman returned to Broadway to co-star with Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher for a limited engagement of Clifford Odets's play, ''The Country Girl'', directed by Mike Nichols.

He had wanted to do a film based on Nelson Mandela for some time. At first he tried to get Mandela's autobiography, ''Long Walk to Freedom'', adapted into a finished script, but it was not finalized. In 2007 he purchased the film rights to a pre-published 2008 book by John Carlin, ''Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation''. Clint Eastwood directed the Nelson Mandela bio-pic titled ''Invictus'', starring Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. In October 2010, Freeman co-starred alongside Bruce Willis in ''Red''.

Freeman's latest project is the Danny DeVito directed film Charlotte Doyle which will also feature Irish actor Pierce Brosnan and is due to start filming in Ireland in early 2012.

Other work

In July 2009 Freeman was one of the presenters at the 46664 concert (celebrating Nelson Mandela's birthday) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Freeman was the first American to record a par on Legend Golf & Safari Resort's Extreme 19th hole.

At age 65, Freeman earned a private pilot's license. He owns or has owned at least three private aircraft, including a Cessna Citation 501 jet and a Cessna 414 twin-engine prop. In 2007 he purchased an Emivest SJ30 long-range private jet, and took delivery in December 2009. He is certified to fly all of them.

Effective January 4, 2010, Freeman replaced Walter Cronkite as the voiceover introduction to the ''CBS Evening News'' featuring Katie Couric as news anchor. CBS cited the need for consistency in introductions for regular news broadcasts and special reports as the basis for the change.

, Freeman is the host and narrator of the Discovery Channel television show ''Through the Wormhole''.

He will be featured on the opening track to B.o.B's second album Strange Clouds.

In September 2011, Freeman was featured with John Lithgow in the Broadway debut of Dustin Lance Black's play, '''8''' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney David Boies. The production was held at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.

Personal life

Family

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 were in the process of divorce. On September 15, 2010, their divorce was finalized in Mississippi. He adopted his first wife's daughter, and the couple also had his fourth child.

In 2008, the TV series ''African American Lives 2'' revealed that Freeman's great-great-grandparents were slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. Freeman also discovered that his caucasian maternal great-great-grandfather had lived with, and was buried beside, Freeman's African-American great-great-grandmother (the two could not legally marry at the time, in the South).

Properties

Freeman lives in Charleston, Mississippi, and New York City. He co-owns and operates Madidi, a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Car accident

Freeman was injured in an automobile accident near Ruleville, Mississippi, on the night of August 3, 2008. The vehicle in which he was traveling, a 1997 Nissan Maxima, left the highway and flipped over several times. He and a female passenger, Demaris Meyer, were rescued from the vehicle using the "Jaws of Life". Freeman was taken via medical helicopter to The Regional Medical Center (The Med) hospital in Memphis. Police ruled out alcohol as a factor in the crash. Freeman was coherent following the crash, as he joked to a photographer about taking his picture at the scene. He broke his shoulder, arm and elbow in the crash and had surgery on August 5, 2008. Doctors operated for four hours to repair nerve damage in his shoulder and arm. On CNN's ''Piers Morgan Tonight'' he stated that he is left handed but cannot move the fingers of his left hand. He wears a compression glove to protect against blood pooling due to non-movement. His publicist announced he was expected to make a full recovery. Meyer, his passenger, has sued him for negligence, claiming that he was drinking the night of the accident.

Beliefs

In an interview with CNN, Freeman denied the claim that he was a "man of God", saying that "the question of faith is whatever you actually believe ''is''. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's disproven we have faith that it's true."

Activism

Charitable work

In 2004 Freeman and others formed the Grenada Relief Fund to aid people affected by Hurricane Ivan on the island of Grenada. The Grenada Relief Fund has since become PLANIT NOW, an organization that seeks to provide preparedness resources for people living in hurricane and severe-storm afflicted areas.

Freeman has worked on narrating small clips for global organizations, such as One Earth, whose goals include raising awareness of environmental issues. He has narrated the clip "Why Are We Here", which can be viewed on One Earth's website.

Freeman has donated money to the Mississippi Horse Park in Starkville, Mississippi. The Horse park is part of Mississippi State University. Freeman has several horses that he takes there.

Comments on race

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." Freeman supported the defeated proposal to change the Mississippi state flag, which contains the Confederate battle flag.

Politics

Freeman endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for the 2008 presidential election, although he stated that he would not join Obama's campaign. He narrates for The Hall of Presidents with Barack Obama, who has been added to the exhibit. The Hall of Presidents re-opened on July 4, 2009 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

Freeman joined President Bill Clinton, USA Bid Committee Chairman Sunil Gulati, and USMNT midfielder Landon Donovan on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, in Zurich for the USA bid committee's final presentation to FIFA for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Freeman sparked an outcry in September 2011 when, on CNN's ''Piers Morgan Tonight'', he accused the Tea Party movement of racism. He said that the Tea Party's "stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here." Piers Morgan responded, "But is that necessarily a racist thing?...Wouldn't they say that about any Democrat?" Freeman replied, "It is a racist thing...[The rise of the Tea Party] shows the weak, dark underside of America. We're supposed to be better than that. We really are. That's why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. 'Ah look at what we are–this is America.' Then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced–like stirring up muddy water." Freeman was criticized for the comments; black Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said the comments were short-sighted and said most who have criticized the Tea Party have never been to a Tea Party, and actor Adam Baldwin said, "It's the content of Obama's character [and] policies, not the color of his skin, that's at issue."

Honors

On October 28, 2006, Freeman was honored at the first Mississippi's Best Awards in Jackson, Mississippi, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his works on and off the big screen. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts and Letters from Delta State University during the school's commencement exercises on May 13, 2006.

In 2008, Freeman's family history was profiled on the PBS series ''African American Lives 2''. A DNA test showed that he is descended from the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.

Filmography

+Film	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1964	''''	Man on Street	uncredited
1966	''''	Unknown	uncredited
1968	''Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?''	Grand Central Commuter	uncredited
1980	''Brubaker''	Walter
1981		Lieutenant Black
1984		Al Lewis
1984	''Harry & Son''	Siemanowski
1985		Charles Traughber
1985	''That Was Then... This Is Now''	Charlie Woods
1987		Fast Black	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting MaleLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1988	''Clean and Sober''	Craig
1989		Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins	Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
1989	''Driving Miss Daisy''	Hoke Colburn	40th Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear for Best Joint Performance (shared with Jessica Tandy)Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1989
1989	''Johnny Handsome''	Lt. A.Z. Drones
1990	''''	Judge Leonard White
1990	''''	Voice of Frederick Douglass
1991	''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''	Azeem	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Kevin Costner)
1992	''Unforgiven''	Ned Logan
1992	''''	Geel Piet
1993	''Bopha!''		director only, his directorial debut
1994	''''	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator	Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor (tied with Wallace Shawn for ''Vanya on 42nd Street'')Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
1995		Brig. Gen. Billy Ford
1995		Detective Lt. William Somerset	Empire Awards
1996		Paul Shannon
1996		Hibble
1996	''[[Cosmic Voyage''	Narrator
1997		Theodore Joadson
1997
1997	''''	Narrator
1998		President Tom Beck
1998		Jim
2000	''Nurse Betty''	Charlie Quinn
2000		Victor Benezet
2001
2002	''''	DCI William Cabot
2002	''High Crimes''	Charlie Grimes
2003	''Bruce Almighty''	God
2003		Col. Abraham Curtis
2003		Pastor Miles Evans
2003	''Drug War''	Lt. Redding
2004	''Million Dollar Baby''	Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris	Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorItalian Online Movie Awards
2004	''''	Narrator	limited release
2004	''''	Walter Crewes
2005	''''	Mitch Bradley
2005		Narrator
2005	''[[March of the Penguins''	Narrator
2005	''Batman Begins	Lucius Fox
2005		Sam
2006	''Edison Force''	Ashford
2006	''''	Frank Carden
2006	''Lucky Number Slevin''	The Boss
2006		Himself
2007	''Evan Almighty''	God
2007	''Feast of Love''	Harry Stephenson
2007	''Gone, Baby, Gone''	Jack Doyle
2007	''''	Carter Chambers	Also Narrator
2008		Sloan
2008	''''	Narrator	Voice
2008	''''	Lucius Fox	Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2009	''Prom Night in Mississippi''	Himself	''limited release''
2009		Keith Ripley
2009	''''	Charlie
2009		Nelson Mandela	NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion PictureNational Board of Review Award for Best Actor (tied with George Clooney for ''Up in the Air'')Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actor
2010		Joe
2011	''Born to Be Wild 3D''	Narrator
2011		Narrator
2011	''Dolphin Tale''	Dr. Cameron McCarthy
2012	''''	Lucius Fox	post-production
2012	''''	Zachariah	in production
2012	''Summer at Dog Dave's''		pre-production
2013			Filming

+Television	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1971–1977	''''	Easy Reader, DJ Mel Mounds, Dracula, Vincent the Vegetable Vampire	television series
1978	''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry''	Uncle Hammer	made-for-television
1981	''Ryan's Hope''	Cicero Murphy	TV series (various episodes)
1981	''''	Clarence Collins	made-for-television
1982–1984		Roy Bingham	TV series (various episodes)
1985	''''	Tony	Television series (episode "Dealer's Choice")
1986	''Resting Place''	Luther Johnson	made-for-television
1987		Dr. Sherard	made-for-television
2008	''Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution''	Himself (host)	television series, series host
2008	''Stephen Fry in America''	Himself	television series, appears in episode 3
2010	''''	Himself	interview
2010	''''	Himself	interview
2010	''Through the Wormhole'' ''with Morgan Freeman''	Himself (host)	television series, series host
2010	''Saturday Night Live''	Himself (celebrity cameo)	What Up With That
2011		Himself	"Is There a Parallel Universe?" (#1.5)

Other awards and honors

1978 Nominated for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play in ''The Mighty Gents''

1997 Received an honorary degree from Rhodes College, becoming an honorary alumnus

2003 Received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

2006 Guest of honor at the Cairo International Film Festival

2007 He and his wife received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters

2007 Outstanding Contribution To Film And TV gong at the Screen Nation Film and TV Awards

2008 Kennedy Center Honors

2010 Received an honorary degree from Brown University

2011 Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute

2012 Chosen as Favorite Movie Icon at the People's Choice Awards

2012 Cecil B. DeMille Award

References

External links

ClickStar headed by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary

Revelations Entertainment Production company co-founded by Freeman

A detailed biography of his history as an actor

Morgan Freeman movies at Movie Information

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