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