About
Morgan Freeman
Overview
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.
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Known for
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| 2025 | Now You See Me 3 | Actor | Thaddeus Bradley | N/A N/A |
| 2025 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Actor | Dr. Cole | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Gunner | Actor | Kendrick Ryker | 57 Average |
| 2024 | How to Rob a Bank | Actor | Azeem (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2024 | Odysseus Returns | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | Life on Our Planet | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 77 Good |
| 2023 | 57 Seconds | Actor | Anton Burrell | 59 Average |
| 2023 | 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2023 | Lioness | Actor | Secretary of State Edwin Mullins | 79 Good |
| 2023 | 100 Years of Warner Bros. | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2023 | A Good Person | Actor | Daniel | 63 Fair |
| 2023 | The Ritual Killer | Actor | Dr. Mackles | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Heroes & Villains | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2022 | Our Universe | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2022 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The Minute You Wake Up Dead | Actor | Sheriff Thurmond Fowler | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Sidney | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Paradise Highway | Actor | Gerick | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Betty White: A Celebration | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman | Actor | Self - Host | 68 Fair |
| 2021 | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | Actor | Senior | 65 Fair |
| 2021 | Solos | Actor | Stuart | 68 Fair |
| 2021 | Vanquish | Actor | Damon | 57 Average |
| 2021 | Coming 2 America | Actor | Morgan Freeman | 63 Fair |
| 2021 | Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Comeback Trail | Actor | Reggie Fontaine | 58 Average |
| 2020 | Meeting the Beatles in India | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Into Nature's Wild | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Actor | Alan Trumbull | 65 Fair |
| 2019 | Brian Banks | Actor | Jerome Johnson (uncredited) | 63 Fair |
| 2019 | The Poison Rose | Actor | Doc | 53 Average |
| 2019 | Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Actor | Drosselmeyer | 60 Fair |
| 2018 | America's Musical Journey | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Die Clint Eastwood Story | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Just Getting Started | Actor | Duke | 55 Average |
| 2017 | Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman | Actor | Self - Host | 69 Fair |
| 2017 | The Words That Built America | Actor | Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Going in Style | Actor | Willie Davis | 65 Fair |
| 2017 | March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step | Actor | Narrator (english voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Actor | Sheik Ilderim | 57 Average |
| 2016 | The C Word | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Now You See Me 2 | Actor | Thaddeus Bradley | 67 Fair |
| 2016 | The Story of God with Morgan Freeman | Actor | Self - Host | 73 Good |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Actor | Alan Trumbull | 61 Fair |
| 2015 | Momentum | Actor | Senator | 57 Average |
| 2015 | JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Actor | Patrick Meighan | 62 Fair |
| 2015 | Last Knights | Actor | Bartok | 62 Fair |
| 2014 | Dolphin Tale 2 | Actor | Dr. Cameron McCarthy | 63 Fair |
| 2014 | Lucy | Actor | Professor Samuel Norman | 64 Fair |
| 2014 | 5 Flights Up | Actor | Alex Carver | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Wish Wizard | Actor | Maxwell Omni | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Transcendence | Actor | Joseph Tagger | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Actor | Vitruvius (voice) | 73 Good |
| 2014 | We the People | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | JFK: A President Betrayed | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Last Vegas | Actor | Archibald 'Archie' Clayton | 63 Fair |
| 2013 | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Now You See Me | Actor | Thaddeus Bradley | 72 Good |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Oblivion | Actor | Beech | 65 Fair |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Actor | Alan Trumbull | 63 Fair |
| 2013 | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Ending the Knight | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2012 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Actor | Fox | 77 Good |
| 2012 | The Magic of Belle Isle | Actor | Monte Wildhorn | 63 Fair |
| 2012 | Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo | Actor | Narratore | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Echoes 'Cross the Tracks | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | Dolphin Tale | Actor | Dr. McCarthy | 64 Fair |
| 2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 54 Average |
| 2011 | Curiosity | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2011 | Clint Eastwood's West | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Breaking the Taboo | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Born to Be Wild | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2010 | The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2010 | RED | Actor | Joe Matheson | 66 Fair |
| 2010 | Through the Wormhole | Actor | Self - Host | 73 Good |
| 2010 | The 16th Man | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 63 Fair |
| 2010 | The Eastwood Factor | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2010 | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Actor | Self (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Invictus | Actor | Nelson Mandela | 70 Good |
| 2009 | The Maiden Heist | Actor | Charles Peterson | 57 Average |
| 2009 | Prom Night in Mississippi | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Thick as Thieves | Actor | Keith Ripley | 59 Average |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Actor | Lucius Fox | 84 Very good |
| 2008 | Wanted | Actor | Sloan | 64 Fair |
| 2008 | Where the Water Meets the Sky | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2008 | A Raisin in the Sun | Actor | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Bucket List | Actor | Carter Chambers | 70 Good |
| 2007 | All About Us | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2007 | Feast of Love | Actor | Harry Stevenson | 60 Fair |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Actor | Jack Doyle | 71 Good |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | Actor | God | 56 Average |
| 2006 | The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | 10 Items or Less | Actor | 'Him' | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Actor | Jaques (segment "As You Like It") | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | The Contract | Actor | Frank Carden | 57 Average |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | Actor | The Boss | 73 Good |
| 2005 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Actor | Neil Armstrong (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Actor | Mitch Bradley | 63 Fair |
| 2005 | A Concert for Hurricane Relief | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Edison | Actor | Ashford | 56 Average |
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 64 Fair |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Actor | Lucius Fox | 76 Good |
| 2005 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Slavery and the Making of America | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2005 | Unleashed | Actor | Sam | 67 Fair |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | Actor | Narrator (English voice) | 67 Fair |
| 2005 | Blues Divas | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Actor | Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris | 78 Good |
| 2004 | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Hunting of the President | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2004 | The Big Bounce | Actor | Walter Crewes | 55 Average |
| 2003 | Guilty by Association | Actor | Lt. Redding | 57 Average |
| 2003 | Declaration of Independence | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Actor | God | 66 Fair |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Actor | Col. Abraham Curtis | 56 Average |
| 2003 | Levity | Actor | Miles Evans | 59 Average |
| 2002 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Partners of the Heart | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Actor | DCI William Cabot | 62 Fair |
| 2002 | High Crimes | Actor | Charlie Grimes | 61 Fair |
| 2001 | Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Actor | Alex Cross | 62 Fair |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Actor | Charlie | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Actor | Captain Victor Benezet | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Stephen King: Shining in the Dark | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Actor | President Tom Beck | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | Hard Rain | Actor | Jim | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Amistad | Actor | Theodore Joadson | 66 Fair |
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Actor | Alex Cross | 63 Fair |
| 1997 | The Long Way Home | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Cosmic Voyage | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Actor | Paul Shannon | 57 Average |
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Actor | Hibble | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial | Actor | Edward G. Robinson | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Inside the White House | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Se7en | Actor | Somerset | 83 Very good |
| 1995 | Outbreak | Actor | General Billy Ford | 64 Fair |
| 1994 | Brooks and the Shawshank Redemption | Actor | Red | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Actor | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding | 86 Very good |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Actor | Ned Logan | 76 Good |
| 1992 | The Power of One | Actor | Geel Piet | 62 Fair |
| 1991 | The True Story of Glory Continues | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Actor | Azeem | 67 Fair |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Actor | Judge Leonard White | 57 Average |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Actor | Frederick Douglass | 76 Good |
| 1990 | Follow the Drinking Gourd | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Actor | Walter Samson | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Glory | Actor | Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins | 71 Good |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Actor | Hoke Colburn | 69 Fair |
| 1989 | Johnny Handsome | Actor | Lt. A.Z. Drones | 60 Fair |
| 1989 | Lean On Me | Actor | Principal Joe Clark | 64 Fair |
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Actor | Craig | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Clinton and Nadine | Actor | Dorsey Pratt | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Fight for Life | Actor | Dr. Sherard | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Street Smart | Actor | Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr. | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Resting Place | Actor | Luther Johnson | 59 Average |
| 1985 | The Execution of Raymond Graham | Actor | Warden Pratt | 59 Average |
| 1985 | The Gospel at Colonus | Actor | Messenger | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | The Gospel at Colonus | Actor | Messenger | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | That Was Then... This Is Now | Actor | Charlie Woods | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Marie: A True Story | Actor | Charles Traughber | 58 Average |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Actor | Ben Shelter | 68 Fair |
| 1984 | Teachers | Actor | Lewis | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Harry & Son | Actor | Siemanowski | 59 Average |
| 1981 | The Marva Collins Story | Actor | Clarence Collins | 59 Average |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Actor | Lieutenant Black | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Death of a Prophet | Actor | Malcolm X | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Brubaker | Actor | Walter | 64 Fair |
| 1980 | Attica | Actor | Hap Richards | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Hollow Image | Actor | Sweet Talk | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Actor | Uncle Hammer | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Actor | Uncle Hammer | 69 Fair |
| 1974 | Out to Lunch | Actor | Self / Croupier | 58 Average |
| 1973 | Blade | Actor | Chris | 58 Average |
| 1971 | Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! | Actor | Afro | 59 Average |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Actor | Mad Scientist | 69 Fair |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Actor | Easy Reader | 69 Fair |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Actor | Count Dracula | 69 Fair |
| 1970 | Caught in the Middle | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Actor | Grand Central Commuter | 58 Average |
| 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Actor | Grand Central Commuter (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1966 | A Man Called Adam | Actor | Party Guest (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1965 | The Pawnbroker | Actor | Man on Street (Uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| Hate to See You Go | Actor | Sonny Bell | N/A N/A |
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| CLINT | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
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| The Little Bedroom | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
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| Sniff | Actor | Joe Mulwray | N/A N/A |
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| The Promised Land | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 1993 | Bopha! | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Production |
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| 2024 | In Our Blood | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Ogun Óla: War is Coming | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Madam Secretary | Production | Executive Producer | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | 5 Flights Up | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | The 16th Man | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Invictus | Production | Executive Producer | 70 Good |
| 2003 | Levity | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Production | Executive Producer | 62 Fair |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Mutiny | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| Last Meals | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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| Rendezvous with Rama | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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| Hate to See You Go | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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| The Gray House | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
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