Morgan Freeman
Acting
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.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Thaddeus Bradley
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Self
The Power of Chi
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From the Balkans
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Gunner
Kendrick Ryker
How to Rob a Bank
Azeem (archive footage)
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
Narrator
57 Seconds
Anton Burrell
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Self
A Good Person
Daniel
The Ritual Killer
Dr. Mackles
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Sidney
Self
Paradise Highway
Gerick
Betty White: A Celebration
Self
Power of Chi
Narrator (voice)
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Senior
Vanquish
Damon
Coming 2 America
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
Self
The Comeback Trail
Reggie Fontaine
Meeting the Beatles in India
Narrator (voice)
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Self
Into Nature's Wild
Narrator (voice)
Angel Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
Brian Banks
Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
The Poison Rose
Doc
Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United
Self
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Drosselmeyer
America's Musical Journey
Narrator (voice)
Die Clint Eastwood Story
Self
Just Getting Started
Duke
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Going in Style
Willie Davis
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Narrator (English voice)
Ben-Hur
Sheik Ilderim
The C Word
Narrator (voice)
Now You See Me 2
Thaddeus Bradley
London Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
Momentum
Senator
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
Patrick Meighan
Last Knights
Bartok
Dolphin Tale 2
Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Lucy
Professor Norman
5 Flights Up
Alex Carver
Wish Wizard
Maxwell Omni
Transcendence
Joseph Tagger
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
Narrator (voice)
The Lego Movie
Vitruvius (voice)
We the People
Narrator (voice)
JFK: A President Betrayed
Narrator (voice)
Last Vegas
Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
Now You See Me
Thaddeus Bradley
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
Oblivion
Beech
Olympus Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
Narrator (voice)
Ending the Knight
Self
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
Fox
The Magic of Belle Isle
Monte Wildhorn
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
Narratore
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Self
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
Self
Dolphin Tale
Dr. McCarthy
Conan the Barbarian
Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood's West
Self
Breaking the Taboo
Narrator (voice)
Born to Be Wild
Narrator (voice)
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Narrator (voice)
RED
Joe Matheson
The 16th Man
Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
Self - Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
Self
Invictus
Nelson Mandela
The Maiden Heist
Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi
Narrator (voice)
Thick as Thieves
Keith Ripley
The Dark Knight
Lucius Fox
Wanted
Sloan
Where the Water Meets the Sky
A Raisin in the Sun
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Bucket List
Carter Chambers
All About Us
Self
Feast of Love
Harry Stevenson
Gone Baby Gone
Jack Doyle
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
Evan Almighty
God
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Self
Greasy Rider
10 Items or Less
'Him'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
The Contract
Frank Carden
Lucky Number Slevin
The Boss
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Neil Armstrong (voice)
An Unfinished Life
Mitch Bradley
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self
Edison
Ashford
Born to Fight
Self
James Lipton Takes on Three
Self
War of the Worlds
Narrator (voice)
Batman Begins
Lucius Fox
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Unleashed
Sam
March of the Penguins
Narrator
Blues Divas
Self
Million Dollar Baby
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Self
The Hunting of the President
Narrator (voice)
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
The Big Bounce
Walter Crewes
Guilty by Association
Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
Self
Bruce Almighty
God
Dreamcatcher
Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
Miles Evans
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
Partners of the Heart
Narrator (voice)
The Sum of All Fears
DCI William Cabot
High Crimes
Charlie Grimes
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
Self
Along Came a Spider
Alex Cross
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Narrator (voice)
Nurse Betty
Charlie
Under Suspicion
Captain Victor Benezet
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Self
Deep Impact
President Tom Beck
Hard Rain
Jim
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Self
Amistad
Theodore Joadson
Kiss the Girls
Det. Alex Cross
The Long Way Home
Narrator (voice)
The Making of Se7en
Self
Cosmic Voyage
Narrator (voice)
Chain Reaction
Paul Shannon
Moll Flanders
Hibble
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Edward G. Robinson
Inside the White House
Narrator (voice)
Se7en
Somerset
Outbreak
General Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
Unforgiven
Ned Logan
The Power of One
Geel Piet
The True Story of Glory Continues
Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Azeem
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Self
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Narrator (voice)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Judge Leonard White
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
Narrator (voice)
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
The Earth Day Special
Walter Samson
Glory
Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy
Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome
Lt. A.Z. Drones
Lean On Me
Principal Joe Clark
Clean and Sober
Craig
Clinton and Nadine
Dorsey Pratt
Fight for Life
Dr. Sherard
Street Smart
Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
Resting Place
Luther Johnson
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Warden Pratt
The Gospel at Colonus
Messenger
That Was Then... This Is Now
Charlie Woods
Marie: A True Story
Charles Traughber
Teachers
Lewis
Harry & Son
Siemanowski
The Marva Collins Story
Clarence Collins
Eyewitness
Lieutenant Black
Death of a Prophet
Malcolm X
Brubaker
Walter
Attica
Hap Richards
Hollow Image
Sweet Talk
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer
Out to Lunch
Self / Croupier
Energy Crisis
Self
Blade
Chris
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
Afro
Caught in the Middle
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Grand Central Commuter
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Grand Central Commuter (uncredited)
A Man Called Adam
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pawnbroker
Man on Street (Uncredited)