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