Morgan Freeman

Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere) and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Sr., a barber who died in 1961 from liver cirrhosis. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. He has three older siblings. Freeman's family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, currently Threadgill Elementary School, in Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street High School, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force. Freeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring music group. Freeman acted in a touring company version of The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and also appeared as an extra in the 1965 film The Pawnbroker. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967, opposite Viveca Lindfors in The Nigger Lovers (about the civil rights era "Freedom Riders"), before debuting on Broadway in 1968's all-black version of Hello, Dolly!, which also starred Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway. Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967, until 1979. He married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984. The couple separated in December 2007. Freeman's attorney and business partner, Bill Luckett, announced in August 2008 that Freeman and his wife are in the process of divorce. He has two sons from previous relationships. He adopted his first wife's daughter and the couple also had a fourth child. Freeman lives in Charleston, Mississippi, and New York City. He has a private pilot's license, which he earned at age 65, and co-owns and operates Madidi, a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He officially opened his second Ground Zero in Memphis, Tennessee on April 24, 2008. Freeman has publicly criticized the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying, "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "white history month". Freeman once said on an interview with 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace: "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Films

1998	54 As Angelic Boy
	The True Story of Glory Continues As Narrator
2014	Transcendence As
2014	Lego: The Piece of Resistance As Vitruvius
2013	Olympus Has Fallen As Speaker Trumbull
2013	Oblivion As Beech
2013	Now You See Me As Thaddeus Bradley
2013	Last Vegas As Archie
2013	Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story As Himself
2012	The Magic of Belle Isle As Monte Wildhorn
2012	The Dark Knight Rises As Lucius Fox
2012	Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl As
2012	B.B. King: The Life of Riley As
2011	Dolphin Tale As Dr. McCarthy
2011	Born to Be Wild As Narrator
2010	The Eastwood Factor As Narrator
2010	The 16th Man As
2010	Red As Joe Matheson
2010	Morgan Freeman Science Show - Le frontiere dell'Astronomia -Episodio 3 - Esistono universi paralleli As
2010	Morgan Freeman Science Show - Le frontiere dell'Astronomia -Episodio 2 - L’Universo é infinito As
2009	Thick as Thieves As Keith Ripley
2009	The People Speak As Himself
2009	The Maiden Heist As Charles
2009	Prom Night in Mississippi As Himself
2009	Invictus As
2008	Wanted As Sloan
2008	The Dark Knight As Lucius Fox
2007	The Bucket List As Carter Chambers
2007	Gone Baby Gone As Jack Doyle
2007	Feast of Love As Harry Stevenson
2007	Evan Almighty As God
2006	The Contract As Frank Carden
2006	Lucky Number Slevin As The Boss
2006	Edison As Moses Ashford
2006	10 Items or Less As 'Him'
2005	War of the Worlds As Narrator (Voice)
2005	Piggy Banks As
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon As Neil Armstrong
2005	La Marche de l'empereur As Narrator
2005	Danny the Dog As Sam
2005	Batman Begins As Lucius Fox
2005	An Unfinished Life As Mitch Bradley
2004	The Hunting of the President As Narrator
2004	The Big Bounce As Walter Crewes
2004	Million Dollar Baby As Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
2003	Levity As Miles Evans
2003	Guilty by Association As Lt. Redding
2003	Dreamcatcher As Col. Abraham Curtis
2003	Bruce Almighty As God
2002	The Sum of All Fears As DCI William Cabot
2002	High Crimes As Charlie Grimes
2001	Along Came a Spider As Alex Cross
2000	Under Suspicion As
2000	Stephen King: Shining in the Dark As
2000	Nurse Betty As Charlie
1998	Hard Rain As Jim
1998	Deep Impact As President Tom Beck
1997	The Long Way Home As Narrator
1997	Kiss the Girls As Alex Cross
1997	Amistad As Theodore
1996	National Geographic: Inside the White House As
1996	Moll Flanders As Hibble
1996	IMAX - Cosmic Voyage As Narrator
1996	Chain Reaction As Paul Shannon
1995	Se7en As Detective Lt. William Somerset
1995	Outbreak As Billy Ford
1994	The Shawshank Redemption As Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
1993	Bopha! As
1992	Unforgiven As Ned Logan
1992	The Power of One As Geel Piet
1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves As Azeem
1990	The Civil War As Frederick Douglass
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities As Judge Leonard White
1989	Lean On Me As Principal Joe Clark
1989	Johnny Handsome As Lt. A.Z. Drones
1989	Glory As Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
1989	Driving Miss Daisy As Hoke Colburn
1988	Clean and Sober As Craig
1987	Street Smart As Fast Black
1986	Resting Place As Luther Johnson
1985	The Execution of Raymond Graham As Warden Pratt
1985	That Was Then... This is Now As Charlie Woods
1985	Marie As Charles Traughber
1984	Teachers As Lewis
1984	Harry & Son As Siemanowski
1981	Eyewitness As Lieutenant Black
1981	Death of a Prophet As Malcolm X
1980	Brubaker As Walter