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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.
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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.
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Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Oscars
Tony Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
60 Minutes
Honest Trailers
The Graham Norton Show
Today
Pebble Mill
The Jay Leno Show
Madam Secretary
The Chris Rock Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Kennedy Center Honors
HBO First Look
The Muppets Mayhem
The Twilight Zone
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Spidey Super Stories
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Number One on the Call Sheet
Parkinson
30 for 30
War of the Worlds
Coming 2 America
How to Rob a Bank
Texas
Lioness
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Batman Begins
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Transcendence
Now You See Me
Solos
That Was Then... This Is Now
Harry & Son
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight
Ted 2
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Olympus Has Fallen
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
March of the Penguins
The Civil War
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Deep Impact
The Atlanta Child Murders
Glory
London Has Fallen
My Dead Friend Zoe
Ben-Hur
Now You See Me 2
The Lego Movie
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Clean and Sober
RED
Gone Baby Gone
Outbreak
Million Dollar Baby
Unforgiven
Curiosity
Paradise Highway
Last Knights
Wanted
The Comeback Trail
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
A Good Person
Under Suspicion
57 Seconds
Lucy
The Sum of All Fears
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Bruce Almighty
Last Vegas
The Shawshank Redemption
Sniff
Unleashed
Evan Almighty
Oblivion
Angel Has Fallen
Gunner
The Bucket List
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Dreamcatcher
Our Universe
Thick as Thieves
Driving Miss Daisy
The Ritual Killer
Lean On Me
Kiss the Girls
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Hard Rain
Life on Our Planet
The Contract
Going in Style
Se7en
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Caught in the Middle
Along Came a Spider
Production Credits
Under Suspicion
Along Came a Spider
Madam Secretary
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