Morgan Freeman
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.
264 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 264
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Dark Knight
2008
American Experience
1988
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Great Performances
1971
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
Madam Secretary
2014
Lioness
2023
The Twilight Zone
1985
Tony Awards
1956
60 Minutes
1968
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
Se7en
1995
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Ted 2
2015
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
American Masters
1986
The Oscars
1953
The Reichen Show
2005
Batman Begins
2005
30 for 30
2009
Now You See Me
2013
Pebble Mill
1991
Goldene Kamera
1984
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Now You See Me 2
2016
Lucy
2014
Parkinson
1998
The Electric Company
1971
Through the Wormhole
2010
War of the Worlds
2005
The Lego Movie
2014
RED
2010
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
HBO First Look
1992
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019
Bruce Almighty
2003
Angel Has Fallen
2019
Oblivion
2013
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Unforgiven
1992
The Dinosaurs
2026
The Chris Rock Show
1997
The American Revolution
2025
Wanted
2008
The Civil War
1990
Outbreak
1995
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
Today
1952
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
London Has Fallen
2016
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Million Dollar Baby
2004
Glory
1989
The Muppets Mayhem
2023
Deep Impact
1998
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
Gunner
2024
Evan Almighty
2007
Transcendence
2014
Conan the Barbarian
2011
Life on Our Planet
2023
Curiosity
2011
Solos
2021
Kiss the Girls
1997
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
Mark Twain Prize
1999
Our Universe
2022
Unleashed
2005
Gone Baby Gone
2007
Coming 2 America
2021
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
Invictus
2009
57 Seconds
2023
Along Came a Spider
2001
The Bucket List
2007
Dreamcatcher
2003
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Last Knights
2015
Ben-Hur
2016
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Last Vegas
2013
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
2016
Going in Style
2017
High Crimes
2002
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
Thick as Thieves
2009
Hard Rain
1998
The Magic of Belle Isle
2012
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
Spidey Super Stories
1974
Chain Reaction
1996
The Ritual Killer
2023
Vanquish
2021
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021
Johnny Handsome
1989
The Poison Rose
2019
Momentum
2015
An Unfinished Life
2005
Edison
2005
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
Brian Banks
2019
A Good Person
2023
Lean On Me
1989
Paradise Highway
2022
Brubaker
1980
Nurse Betty
2000
The Love Guru
2008
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
Ending the Knight
2012
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
The Comeback Trail
2020
The Earth Day Special
1990
Under Suspicion
2000
The Contract
2006
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Eyewitness
1981
The Big Bounce
2004
The Power of One
1992
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Dolphin Tale 2
2014
March of the Penguins
2005
10 Items or Less
2006
Just Getting Started
2017
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017
Slavery and the Making of America
2005
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Feast of Love
2007
Dolphin Tale
2011
The Words That Built America
2017
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
5 Flights Up
2014
The Maiden Heist
2009
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Teachers
1984
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Levity
2003
Clean and Sober
1988
Moll Flanders
1996
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Sidney
2022
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025
Street Smart
1987
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
Marie: A True Story
1985
Attica
1980
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022
The Pawnbroker
1965
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
Live from Studio Five
2009
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
A Raisin in the Sun
2008
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Amistad
1997
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Resting Place
1986
The Promised Land
—
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017
Declaration of Independence
2003
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004
All About Us
2007
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012
Born to Be Wild
2011
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985
Breaking the Taboo
2011
Sniff
—
Blade
1973
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
Harry & Son
1984
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021
The People Speak
2009
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
2014
Cosmic Voyage
1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996
Clinton and Nadine
1988
Clint Eastwood's West
2011
Death of a Prophet
1981
The C Word
2016
Out to Lunch
1974
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006
Inside the White House
1996
A Man Called Adam
1966
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2021
The Marva Collins Story
1981
The Long Way Home
1997
The Hunting of the President
2004
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012
Hollow Image
1979
Energy Crisis
1974
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
2019
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
Wish Wizard
2014
Partners of the Heart
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001
Fight for Life
1987
The 16th Man
2010
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
—
The Making of Se7en
1997
America's Musical Journey
2018
The Gospel at Colonus
1985
Hate to See You Go
—
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
2013
We the People
2014
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990
Guilty by Association
2003
The Little Bedroom
—
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005
Into Nature's Wild
2020
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
1990
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009
Blues Divas
2005
Power of Chi
2022
The Eastwood Factor
2010
CLINT
—
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022
Greasy Rider
2006
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008
The Power of Chi
2025
Odysseus Returns
2024
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015
Born to Fight
2005
From the Balkans
2024
Caught in the Middle
1970
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
2012
