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