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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
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Tony Awards
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
60 Minutes
Honest Trailers
Today
The Jay Leno Show
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
Solos
30 for 30
Curiosity
War of the Worlds
Coming 2 America
Texas
How to Rob a Bank
The Oscars
Lioness
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
The Dark Knight Rises
That Was Then... This Is Now
Harry & Son
The Dark Knight
Now You See Me
Transcendence
Olympus Has Fallen
Batman Begins
Ted 2
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
The Civil War
Deep Impact
Glory
The Atlanta Child Murders
Ben-Hur
The Lego Movie
Now You See Me 2
London Has Fallen
March of the Penguins
Paradise Highway
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Million Dollar Baby
Unforgiven
Wanted
Outbreak
Now You See Me 3
Clean and Sober
RED
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Gunner
The Shawshank Redemption
Angel Has Fallen
The Comeback Trail
57 Seconds
Oblivion
Last Knights
Under Suspicion
Unleashed
A Good Person
Bruce Almighty
The Sum of All Fears
Sniff
Lucy
Evan Almighty
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Along Came a Spider
Caught in the Middle
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Kiss the Girls
The Contract
Going in Style
Hard Rain
Our Universe
The Ritual Killer
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Se7en
Life on Our Planet
Driving Miss Daisy
Lean On Me
Production Credits
Under Suspicion
Madam Secretary
Along Came a Spider
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