Morgan Freeman[1] (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.
Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere), a teacher,[2] 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.[3][4][5] His family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois.[5] 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[6][7] (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.
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,[5] (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.[5] 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).[5] 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.[8]
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.[5] 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.[9] 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.[10] Clint Eastwood directed the Nelson Mandela bio-pic titled Invictus, starring Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar.[11] In October 2010, Freeman co-starred alongside Bruce Willis in Red.[12]
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.[13]
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.[14]
At age 65, Freeman earned a private pilot's license.[15] 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[16] long-range private jet, and took delivery in December 2009.[17] He is certified to fly all of them.[18]
Effective January 4, 2010, Freeman replaced Walter Cronkite as the voiceover introduction to the CBS Evening News featuring Katie Couric as news anchor.[19] CBS cited the need for consistency in introductions for regular news broadcasts and special reports as the basis for the change.[19]
As of 2010[update], Freeman is the host and narrator of the Discovery Channel television show Through the Wormhole.[20]
He was featured on the opening track to B.o.B's second album Strange Clouds. The track, "Bombs Away", features a prologue and epilogue (which leads in to a musical outro) spoken by Morgan Freeman
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.[21] The production was held at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[22][23]
Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, at the 1990 Academy Awards
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 and Colley-Lee had adopted Freeman's step-granddaughter from first marriage and together helped to raise her. Freeman's attorney and business partner, Bill Luckett, announced in August 2008, that Freeman and his wife were in the process of divorce.[24] On September 15, 2010, their divorce was finalized in Mississippi.[25] The couple's divorce is said to be due to Freeman being caught by Colley-Lee having a sexual relationship with his step-granddaughter Hines which according to reports lasted almost a decade. Neither are blood releated. Freeman was in his early seventies while Hines in her late twenties at the time of Freeman's divorce. Despite rumors of marriage and baby, Freeman and Hines were said to have split up in 2012. Freeman is now said to be dating a girl even younger than Hines. [26]
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).[2]
Freeman lives in Charleston, Mississippi, and New York City. He co-owns and operates Madidi,[27] a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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.[28][29] Police ruled out alcohol as a factor in the crash.[30] Freeman was coherent following the crash, as he joked to a photographer about taking his picture at the scene.[31] 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.[32] 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.[33][34] Meyer, his passenger, has sued him for negligence, claiming that he was drinking the night of the accident.[35]
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."[36]
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.[37]
Freeman has worked on narrating small clips for global organizations, such as One Earth,[38] 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.[39]
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."[40] He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "white history month."[41] 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."[40] Freeman supported the defeated proposal to change the Mississippi state flag, which contains the Confederate battle flag.[42][43]
Freeman endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for the 2008 presidential election, although he stated that he would not join Obama's campaign.[44] He narrates for The Hall of Presidents with Barack Obama, who has been added to the exhibit.[45][46] The Hall of Presidents re-opened on July 4, 2009 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.[46]
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.[47]
Freeman sparked an outcry in September 2011 when, on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, he accused the Tea Party movement of racism.[48]
Freeman: [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.
Morgan: But is that necessarily a racist thing?...Wouldn't they say that about any Democrat?
Freeman: 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.
[49][50]
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,[51] 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."[48]
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.[52]
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.
Film
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 1964 |
Pawnbroaker !The Pawnbroker |
Man on Street |
uncredited |
| 1966 |
Man Called Adam, AA Man Called Adam |
Unknown |
uncredited |
| 1968 |
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? |
Grand Central Commuter |
uncredited |
| 1980 |
Brubaker |
Walter |
|
| 1981 |
Eyewitness |
Lieutenant Black |
|
| 1984 |
Teachers |
Al Lewis |
|
| 1984 |
Harry & Son |
Siemanowski |
|
| 1985 |
Marie |
Charles Traughber |
|
| 1985 |
That Was Then... This Is Now |
Charlie Woods |
|
| 1987 |
Street Smart |
Fast Black |
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |
| 1988 |
Clean and Sober |
Craig |
|
| 1989 |
Glory |
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)[53]
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor |
| 1989 |
Lean on Me |
Principal Joe Clark |
|
| 1989 |
Johnny Handsome |
Lt. A.Z. Drones |
|
| 1990 |
Bonfire of the Vanities, TheThe Bonfire of the Vanities |
Judge Leonard White |
|
| 1990 |
Civil War, TheThe Civil War |
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 |
Power of One, TheThe Power of One |
Geel Piet |
|
| 1993 |
Bopha! |
|
director only, his directorial debut |
| 1994 |
Shawshank Redemption, TheThe Shawshank Redemption |
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator |
Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor (tied with Wallace Shawn for Vanya on 42nd Street)
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1995 |
Outbreak |
Brig. Gen. Billy Ford |
|
| 1995 |
Se7en |
Detective Lt. William Somerset |
Empire Award for Best Actor
London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Brad Pitt)
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor |
| 1996 |
Chain Reaction |
Paul Shannon |
|
| 1996 |
Moll Flanders |
Hibble |
|
| 1996 |
Cosmic Voyage |
Narrator |
|
| 1997 |
Amistad |
Theodore Joadson |
|
| 1997 |
Kiss The Girls |
Dr. Alex Cross |
|
| 1997 |
Long Way Home, TheThe Long Way Home |
Narrator |
|
| 1998 |
Deep Impact |
President Tom Beck |
|
| 1998 |
Hard Rain |
Jim |
|
| 2000 |
Nurse Betty |
Charlie Quinn |
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 2000 |
Under Suspicion |
Victor Benezet |
|
| 2001 |
Along Came a Spider |
Dr. Alex Cross |
|
| 2002 |
Sum of All Fears, TheThe Sum of All Fears |
DCI William Cabot |
|
| 2002 |
High Crimes |
Charlie Grimes |
|
| 2003 |
Bruce Almighty |
God |
|
| 2003 |
Dreamcatcher |
Col. Abraham Curtis |
|
| 2003 |
Levity |
Pastor Miles Evans |
|
| 2003 |
Drug War |
Lt. Redding |
|
| 2004 |
Million Dollar Baby |
Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Italian Online Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2004 |
Hunting of the President, TheThe Hunting of the President |
Narrator |
limited release |
| 2004 |
Big Bounce, TheThe Big Bounce |
Walter Crewes |
|
| 2005 |
Unfinished Life, AnAn Unfinished Life |
Mitch Bradley |
|
| 2005 |
War of the Worlds |
Narrator |
|
| 2005 |
March of the Penguins |
Narrator |
|
| 2005 |
Batman Begins |
Lucius Fox |
|
| 2005 |
Unleashed |
Sam |
|
| 2006 |
Edison Force |
Ashford |
|
| 2006 |
Contract, TheThe Contract |
Frank Carden |
|
| 2006 |
Lucky Number Slevin |
The Boss |
|
| 2006 |
10 Items or Less |
Himself |
|
| 2007 |
Evan Almighty |
God |
|
| 2007 |
Feast of Love |
Harry Stephenson |
|
| 2007 |
Gone, Baby, Gone |
Jack Doyle |
|
| 2007 |
Bucket List, TheThe Bucket List |
Carter Chambers |
Also Narrator |
| 2008 |
Wanted |
Sloan |
|
| 2008 |
Love Guru, TheThe Love Guru |
Narrator |
Voice |
| 2008 |
Dark Knight, TheThe Dark Knight |
Lucius Fox |
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast |
| 2009 |
Prom Night in Mississippi |
Himself |
limited release |
| 2009 |
Thick as Thieves |
Keith Ripley |
|
| 2009 |
Maiden Heist, TheThe Maiden Heist |
Charlie |
|
| 2009 |
Invictus |
Nelson Mandela |
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor (tied with George Clooney for Up in the Air)
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actor |
| 2010 |
RED |
Joe |
|
| 2011 |
Born to Be Wild |
Narrator |
|
| 2011 |
Conan the Barbarian |
Narrator[54] |
|
| 2011 |
Dolphin Tale |
Dr. Cameron McCarthy |
|
| 2012 |
The Magic of Belle Isle[55] |
Monte Wildhorn |
post-production |
| 2012 |
Dark Knight Rises, TheThe Dark Knight Rises |
Lucius Fox |
post-production |
| 2013 |
Oblivion |
Malcolm Beech |
in production |
| 2013 |
Now You See Me |
TBA |
in production |
| 2013 |
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, TheThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Zachariah |
in production |
Television
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 1971–1977 |
Electric Company, TheThe Electric Company |
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 |
Marva Collins Story, TheThe Marva Collins Story |
Clarence Collins |
made-for-television |
| 1982–1984 |
Another World |
Roy Bingham |
TV series (various episodes) |
| 1985 |
Twilight Zone, TheThe Twilight Zone |
Tony |
Television series (episode "Dealer's Choice") |
| 1986 |
Resting Place |
Luther Johnson |
made-for-television |
| 1987 |
Fight For Life |
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 |
Colbert Report, TheThe Colbert Report |
Himself |
interview |
| 2010 |
Daily Show, TheThe Daily Show |
Himself |
interview |
| 2010 |
Through the Wormhole
with Morgan Freeman[20] |
Himself (host) |
television series, series host |
| 2010 |
Saturday Night Live |
Himself (celebrity cameo) |
What Up With That |
| 2011 |
Curiosity |
Himself |
"Is There a Parallel Universe?" (#1.5) |
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American actor |
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