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