Morgan Freeman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 1, 1937 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Credits
- 271
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.
Known for
Filmography
Rode to Ruin
2027Movie
Joseph Mulberry
Nacrose
2027Movie
Morgan Freeman
The Dinosaurs
2026TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Revolution
2025TV
(voice)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025Movie
Thaddeus Bradley
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025Movie
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025TV
Self
The Power of Chi
2025Movie
(narrator)
From the Balkans
2024Movie
(narrator)
Gunner
2024Movie
Kendrick Ryker
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024Movie
Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
2024Movie
Narrator
Life on Our Planet
2023TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
57 Seconds
2023Movie
Anton Burrell
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023Movie
Self
Lioness
2023TV
Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
LEGEND
2023TV
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Muppets Mayhem
2023TV
Morgan Freeman
A Good Person
2023Movie
Daniel
The Ritual Killer
2023Movie
Dr. Mackles
VM-krönika 2022
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022Movie
Our Universe
2022TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022Movie
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022TV
Self - Guest
Sidney
2022Movie
Self
Paradise Highway
2022Movie
Gerick
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2022Movie
Self
Betty White: A Celebration
2022Movie
Self
Power of Chi
2022Movie
Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021TV
Self - Host
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021TV
Self
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021Movie
Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021Movie
Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021Movie
Senior
Solos
2021TV
Narrator (voice), Stuart
Vanquish
2021Movie
Damon
Coming 2 America
2021Movie
Morgan Freeman
The Comeback Trail
2020Movie
Reggie Fontaine
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020Movie
Self
Into Nature's Wild
2020Movie
Narrator (voice)
Angel Has Fallen
2019Movie
Alan Trumbull
Brian Banks
2019Movie
Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019TV
Morgan Freeman (voice)
The Poison Rose
2019Movie
Doc
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
2019Movie
Self
The Kominsky Method
2018TV
Morgan Freeman
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018Movie
Drosselmeyer
America's Musical Journey
2018Movie
Narrator (voice)
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018Movie
Self
Just Getting Started
2017Movie
Duke
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017Movie
Self
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017TV
Self - Host
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017Movie
Self
The Words That Built America
2017Movie
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Going in Style
2017Movie
Willie Davis
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017Movie
Narrator (English voice)
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017TV
Self
Ben-Hur
2016Movie
Sheik Ilderim
The C Word
2016Movie
Narrator (voice)
Now You See Me 2
2016Movie
Thaddeus Bradley
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
2016TV
Self - Host
London Has Fallen
2016Movie
Alan Trumbull
Momentum
2015Movie
Senator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self, Self - Guest
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
2015Movie
Patrick Meighan
Last Knights
2015Movie
Bartok
Madam Secretary
2014TV
Chief Justice Frawley, Chief Justice Wilbourne (uncredited)
Dolphin Tale 2
2014Movie
Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Lucy
2014Movie
Professor Norman
5 Flights Up
2014Movie
Alex Carver
Wish Wizard
2014Movie
Maxwell Omni
Transcendence
2014Movie
Joseph Tagger
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
2014Movie
Narrator (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self - Guest
The Lego Movie
2014Movie
Vitruvius (voice)
We the People
2014Movie
Narrator (voice)
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Last Vegas
2013Movie
Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
Now You See Me
2013Movie
Thaddeus Bradley
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013Movie
Self
Oblivion
2013Movie
Beech
Olympus Has Fallen
2013Movie
Alan Trumbull
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013Movie
Self
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Ending the Knight
2012Movie
Self
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
2012Movie
Fox
The Magic of Belle Isle
2012Movie
Monte Wildhorn
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
2012Movie
Narratore
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012Movie
Self
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012Movie
Self
Dolphin Tale
2011Movie
Dr. McCarthy
Conan the Barbarian
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
Curiosity
2011TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood's West
2011Movie
Self
Breaking the Taboo
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
Born to Be Wild
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010Movie
Narrator (voice)
RED
2010Movie
Joe Matheson
Through the Wormhole
2010TV
Self - Host
The 16th Man
2010Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
2010Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
2009Movie
Self
Invictus
2009Movie
Nelson Mandela
30 for 30
2009TV
The Jay Leno Show
2009TV
Self
Live from Studio Five
2009TV
Self
The Maiden Heist
2009Movie
Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009Movie
Narrator (voice)
Thick as Thieves
2009Movie
Keith Ripley
The Dark Knight
2008Movie
Lucius Fox
The Love Guru
2008Movie
Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)
Wanted
2008Movie
Sloan
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
2008Movie
Self
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008Movie
A Raisin in the Sun
2008Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Bucket List
2007Movie
Carter Chambers
All About Us
2007Movie
Self
Feast of Love
2007Movie
Harry Stevenson
Gone Baby Gone
2007Movie
Jack Doyle
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007Movie
Self
Evan Almighty
2007Movie
God
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006Movie
Self
Greasy Rider
2006Movie
10 Items or Less
2006Movie
'Him'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006Movie
Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006Movie
Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
The Contract
2006Movie
Frank Carden
Lucky Number Slevin
2006Movie
The Boss
The Reichen Show
2005TV
Self - Guest
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005Movie
Neil Armstrong (voice)
An Unfinished Life
2005Movie
Mitch Bradley
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005Movie
Self
Edison
2005Movie
Ashford
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005Movie
Self
Born to Fight
2005Movie
Self
War of the Worlds
2005Movie
Narrator (voice)
Batman Begins
2005Movie
Lucius Fox
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
Slavery and the Making of America
2005TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Unleashed
2005Movie
Sam
March of the Penguins
2005Movie
Narrator
Blues Divas
2005Movie
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005TV
Self
Million Dollar Baby
2004Movie
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004Movie
Self
The Hunting of the President
2004Movie
Narrator (voice)
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004Movie
America Beyond the Color Line
2004TV
Self
The Big Bounce
2004Movie
Walter Crewes
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
Guilty by Association
2003Movie
Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
2003Movie
Self
Bruce Almighty
2003Movie
God
Dreamcatcher
2003Movie
Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
2003Movie
Miles Evans
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self - Guest
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002Movie
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002Movie
Self
Partners of the Heart
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Sum of All Fears
2002Movie
DCI William Cabot
High Crimes
2002Movie
Charlie Grimes
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001Movie
Self
Along Came a Spider
2001Movie
Alex Cross
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000Movie
Narrator (voice)
Nurse Betty
2000Movie
Charlie
Under Suspicion
2000Movie
Captain Victor Benezet
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999Movie
Self
Mark Twain Prize
1999TV
Self
Deep Impact
1998Movie
President Tom Beck
Hard Rain
1998Movie
Jim
Parkinson
1998TV
Self
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998Movie
Self
Amistad
1997Movie
Theodore Joadson
Kiss the Girls
1997Movie
Det. Alex Cross
The Long Way Home
1997Movie
Narrator (voice)
The View
1997TV
Self
The Making of Se7en
1997Movie
Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997TV
Cosmic Voyage
1996Movie
Narrator (voice)
Chain Reaction
1996Movie
Paul Shannon
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Moll Flanders
1996Movie
Hibble
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996Movie
Edward G. Robinson
Inside the White House
1996Movie
Narrator (voice)
Se7en
1995Movie
Somerset
Outbreak
1995Movie
General Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption
1994Movie
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
A Century of Cinema
1994Movie
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992Movie
Self
Unforgiven
1992Movie
Ned Logan
HBO First Look
1992TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992TV
Narrator (voice)
The Power of One
1992Movie
Geel Piet
Pebble Mill
1991TV
Self
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991Movie
Azeem
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991Movie
Self
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990Movie
Judge Leonard White
The Civil War
1990TV
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
1990Movie
Self
The Earth Day Special
1990Movie
Walter Samson
Glory
1989Movie
Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy
1989Movie
Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome
1989Movie
Lt. A.Z. Drones
Lean On Me
1989Movie
Principal Joe Clark
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Clean and Sober
1988Movie
Craig
Clinton and Nadine
1988Movie
Dorsey Pratt
Fight for Life
1987Movie
Dr. Sherard
Street Smart
1987Movie
Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
American Masters
1986TV
Narrator (voice)
Resting Place
1986Movie
Luther Johnson
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985Movie
Warden Pratt
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985Movie
Charlie Woods
The Gospel at Colonus
1985Movie
Messenger
Marie: A True Story
1985Movie
Charles Traughber
The Twilight Zone
1985TV
Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985TV
Ben Shelter
Teachers
1984Movie
Lewis
Harry & Son
1984Movie
Siemanowski
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self
The Marva Collins Story
1981Movie
Clarence Collins
Eyewitness
1981Movie
Lieutenant Black
Death of a Prophet
1981Movie
Malcolm X
Brubaker
1980Movie
Walter
Attica
1980Movie
Hap Richards
Hollow Image
1979Movie
Sweet Talk
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979TV
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978TV
Self
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978Movie
Uncle Hammer
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978TV
Uncle Hammer
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
Out to Lunch
1974Movie
Self / Croupier
Spidey Super Stories
1974TV
Easy Reader, Count Dracula, Police officer, Umpire, Mad Scientist, Police Officer
Energy Crisis
1974Movie
Self
Blade
1973Movie
Chris
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973TV
Self
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971Movie
Afro
The Electric Company
1971TV
Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
Great Performances
1971TV
Messenger
Caught in the Middle
1970Movie
60 Minutes
1968TV
Self
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968Movie
Grand Central Commuter (uncredited), Grand Central Commuter
A Man Called Adam
1966Movie
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pawnbroker
1965Movie
Man on Street (Uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Performer
The Oscars
1953TV
Self - Presenter, Self
Today
1952TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Clarence, Luther
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
The Promised Land
TV
Narrator (voice)
Hate to See You Go
Movie
Sonny Bell
The Little Bedroom
Movie
Sniff
Movie
Joe Mulwray
A New Birth of Freedom
Movie
Narrator
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
Movie
Narrator (voice)