| Morgan Freeman  Born: 1-Jun-1937
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Unforgiven Military service: US Air Force (worked as a mechanic) Morgan Freeman is an American movie star, known for playing authority figures. In addition to portraying several detectives in murder mysteries, he played the Director of the CIA in The Sum of All Fears, the President of the United States in Deep Impact, and God in Jim Carrey's Bruce Almighty. He played Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, Malcolm X in Death of a Prophet, and baseball-bat-wielding principal Joe Clark in Lean On Me. Even as Jessica Tandy's chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy or Tim Robbins's prison mentor in Shawshank Redemption, Freeman offered the voice of wisdom.
He was born in Tennessee, and raised in Mississippi by his grandparents, after his parents moved to Chicago to find work. Freeman spent most of his childhood summers in Chicago with his parents, where he scrounged for empty bottles and redeemed them for the deposit, so he could buy a ticket to the movies. Freeman worked on stage for decades, doing everything from regional Shakespeare to appearing off-Broadway in The Niggerlovers with Stacy Keach. He made his movie debut with a tiny role in the 1966 drama A Man Called Adam, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Louis Armstrong, and directed by Leo Penn (father of Chris, Michael, and Sean Penn). In 1968, Freeman made his Broadway debut in an all-black engagement of Hello Dolly. In the early 1970s, he had a long stint playing Easy Reader and several other roles on The Electric Company, a PBS educational show for kids.
Freeman was 50 before landing his first substantial film role, as a pimp menacing Christopher Reeve in Street Smart; Freeman was nominated for an Oscar for the performance. In 1989, he was nominated again, for playing Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy, a role Freeman had played off-Broadway two years earlier. He was nominated a third time for Stephen King's Shawshank Redemption in 1994. In 2000, when 63-year-old Freeman smooched Renée Zellweger in Nurse Betty, it was his first on-screen kiss.
Even with his fame and fortune, Freeman still calls Mississippi home. He owns a blues club in Clarksdale, MS, and says he has always found Mississippi less racist than the rest of the country. "I grew up in a segregated society, and that was purposely, obviously, openly segregated and I wasn't given any business about it or anything else. And then I went up to the north and you see it and it's insidious. It's painful and it's insidious, because you want to think something else is going on and it's not. You want to think you're free there. You're not."
In 2004, Freeman narrated The Hunting of the President, a documentary chronicling the vast purported conspiracy against Bill Clinton, based on the book by Joe Conason.
Before he was famous, Freeman did his share of cocaine, but eventually shook the habit. He did penance playing Michael Keaton's rehab counselor in 1988's Clean and Sober. Freeman, though, still enjoys marijuana, and has no plans to quit. "Never give up the ganja", he says. He has called it "God's own weed", and whenever filming brings him to British Columbia, you'll find Freeman at Vancouver's famous Blunt Brothers marijuana bar.
Father: Grafton Curtis Freeman (stepfather)
Mother: Mayme Edna Revere
Wife: Jeanette Adair Bradshaw (m. 22-Oct-1967, div. 1979, two sons)
Son: Alphonse Freeman
Son: Saifoulaye Freeman
Wife: Myrna Colley-Lee (costume designer, m. 16-Jun-1984, two daughters, div. Sep-2010)
Daughter: Deena (adopted)
Daughter: Morgana
University: Los Angeles City College
University: New York University
Ducks Unlimited
Obama for America
Priorities USA $1 million (2012)
Golden Globe Best Actor in Comedy, Driving Miss Daisy 1990
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 2005 for Million Dollar Baby
Hollywood Walk of Fame 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Kennedy Center Honor 2008
Endorsement of McDonald's 1974
Endorsement of Intel Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Las Vegas, NV (5-Jan-2006)
Risk Factors: Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcoholism, Fibromyalgia
TELEVISION
Another World Dr. Roy Bingham (1982-84)
The Electric Company (1971-77)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Bopha! (17-Sep-1993)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Poison Rose (23-May-2019)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (26-Oct-2018)
Alpha (16-Aug-2018) · Narrator [VOICE]
Going in Style (1-Apr-2017)
Ben-Hur (17-Aug-2016)
Now You See Me 2 (2-Jun-2016)
London Has Fallen (1-Mar-2016)
Momentum (12-Jul-2015)
Ted 2 (25-Jun-2015)
Last Knights (3-Apr-2015)
Dolphin Tale 2 (11-Sep-2014)
5 Flights Up (5-Sep-2014)
Lucy (25-Jul-2014)
Transcendence (10-Apr-2014)
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (4-Apr-2014) · Narrator [VOICE]
The LEGO Movie (1-Feb-2014) [VOICE]
JFK: A President Betrayed (12-Nov-2013)
Last Vegas (31-Oct-2013)
Now You See Me (21-May-2013)
Oblivion (10-Apr-2013)
Olympus Has Fallen (20-Mar-2013)
The Last White Knight (11-Sep-2012) · Himself
The Dark Knight Rises (19-Jul-2012)
The Magic of Belle Isle (1-Jun-2012)
Dolphin Tale (21-Sep-2011) · Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Conan the Barbarian (17-Aug-2011) · Narrator
Born to Be Wild (8-Apr-2011) · Narrator [VOICE]
Red (29-Sep-2010) · Joe Matheson
Invictus (3-Dec-2009)
The Maiden Heist (Jun-2009) · Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi (15-Jan-2009) · Himself
Thick as Thieves (9-Jan-2009) · Ripley
The Dark Knight (16-Jul-2008)
Wanted (12-Jun-2008)
The Bucket List (16-Dec-2007)
Feast of Love (27-Sep-2007)
Gone Baby Gone (5-Sep-2007)
Evan Almighty (21-Jun-2007)
The Contract (9-Oct-2006)
10 Items or Less (11-Sep-2006)
Lucky Number Slevin (24-Feb-2006)
Edison (17-Sep-2005) · Ashford
An Unfinished Life (19-Aug-2005) · Mitch Bradley
War of the Worlds (27-Jun-2005) [VOICE]
Batman Begins (15-Jun-2005)
Unleashed (2-Feb-2005)
Million Dollar Baby (15-Dec-2004) · Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
The Big Bounce (29-Jan-2004)
The Hunting of the President (23-Jan-2004) · Narrator [VOICE]
Guilty by Association (22-Jul-2003) · Lt. Redding
Bruce Almighty (14-May-2003) · God
Dreamcatcher (6-Mar-2003) · Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity (16-Jan-2003) · Miles Evans
The Sum of All Fears (29-May-2002) · DCI William Cabot
High Crimes (3-Apr-2002)
Along Came a Spider (2-Apr-2001)
Nurse Betty (11-May-2000) · Charlie
Under Suspicion (11-May-2000) · Capt. Victor Benezet
Deep Impact (7-May-1998) · President Beck
Hard Rain (16-Jan-1998) · Jim
Amistad (4-Dec-1997) · Joadson
The Long Way Home (19-Sep-1997) · Narrator [VOICE]
Kiss the Girls (10-Sep-1997) · Alex Cross
Chain Reaction (2-Aug-1996) · Paul Shannon
Moll Flanders (14-Jun-1996) · Hibble
Se7en (22-Sep-1995) · Somerset
Outbreak (10-Mar-1995) · Gen. Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption (10-Sep-1994) · Ellis Boyd Redding
Unforgiven (3-Aug-1992)
The Power of One (27-Mar-1992)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (14-Jun-1991) · Azeem
The Bonfire of the Vanities (21-Dec-1990)
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990)
Glory (15-Dec-1989) · Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy (13-Dec-1989) · Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome (12-Sep-1989)
Lean on Me (3-Mar-1989)
Clean and Sober (10-Aug-1988) · Craig
Clinton and Nadine (28-May-1988)
Street Smart (20-Mar-1987)
The Execution of Raymond Graham (17-Nov-1985)
That Was Then... This Is Now (8-Nov-1985)
Marie (Oct-1985)
The Atlanta Child Murders (10-Feb-1985)
Teachers (5-Oct-1984)
Harry and Son (2-Mar-1984)
The Marva Collins Story (1-Dec-1981)
Eyewitness (26-Aug-1981) · Lt. Black
Death of a Prophet (1981)
Brubaker (20-Jun-1980) · Walter
Attica (2-Mar-1980)
Hollow Image (24-Jun-1979)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (2-Jun-1978)
Blade (Dec-1973)
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (18-Nov-1971)
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