Morgan Freeman
Actor
Born June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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.
Filmography
CLINT
Narrator (voice)
Last Meals
The Dinosaurs
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gray House
The American Revolution
(voice)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Thaddeus Bradley
In Our Blood
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
The Power of Chi
(narrator)
From the Balkans
(narrator)
Gunner
Kendrick Ryker
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
Narrator
Life on Our Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
57 Seconds
Anton Burrell
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Self
Lioness
Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Muppets Mayhem
Morgan Freeman
A Good Person
Daniel
The Ritual Killer
Dr. Mackles
VM-krönika 2022
Self (archive footage)
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
Our Universe
Self - Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Ogun Óla: War is Coming
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
Sidney
Self
Paradise Highway
Gerick
Betty White: A Celebration
Self
Power of Chi
Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
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
Solos
Narrator (voice)
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)
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Morgan Freeman (voice)
The Poison Rose
Doc
Panama Canal: 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
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
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)
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
Self
Ben-Hur
Sheik Ilderim
The C Word
Narrator (voice)
Now You See Me 2
Thaddeus Bradley
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Self - Host
London Has Fallen
Alan Trumbull
Momentum
Senator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
Patrick Meighan
Last Knights
Bartok
Madam Secretary
Chief Justice Frawley
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)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
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
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
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Self
Dolphin Tale
Dr. McCarthy
Conan the Barbarian
Narrator (voice)
Curiosity
Self - Narrator (voice)
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
Through the Wormhole
Self - Host
The 16th Man
Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
Self - Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
Self
Invictus
Nelson Mandela
30 for 30
The Jay Leno Show
Self
Live from Studio Five
Self
The Maiden Heist
Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi
Narrator (voice)
Thick as Thieves
Keith Ripley
The Dark Knight
Lucius Fox
The Love Guru
Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)
Wanted
Sloan
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
Self
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 Graham Norton Show
Self
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
The Reichen Show
Self - Guest
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
War of the Worlds
Narrator (voice)
Batman Begins
Lucius Fox
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Slavery and the Making of America
Self - Narrator (voice)
Unleashed
Sam
March of the Penguins
Narrator
Blues Divas
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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
America Beyond the Color Line
Self
The Big Bounce
Walter Crewes
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Guilty by Association
Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
Self
Bruce Almighty
God
Dreamcatcher
Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
Miles Evans
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
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
Mark Twain Prize
Self
Mutiny
Deep Impact
President Tom Beck
Hard Rain
Jim
Parkinson
Self
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Self
Amistad
Theodore Joadson
Kiss the Girls
Det. Alex Cross
The Long Way Home
Narrator (voice)
The View
Self
The Chris Rock Show
Cosmic Voyage
Narrator (voice)
Chain Reaction
Paul Shannon
The Daily Show
Self
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
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Bopha!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
Unforgiven
Ned Logan
HBO First Look
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
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
The Civil War
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (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
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Clean and Sober
Craig
Clinton and Nadine
Dorsey Pratt
Fight for Life
Dr. Sherard
Street Smart
Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
American Masters
Narrator (voice)
Resting Place
Luther Johnson
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Warden Pratt
That Was Then... This Is Now
Charlie Woods
The Gospel at Colonus
Messenger
Marie: A True Story
Charles Traughber
The Twilight Zone
Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
The Atlanta Child Murders
Ben Shelter
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
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Out to Lunch
Self / Croupier
Spidey Super Stories
Count Dracula
Blade
Chris
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
Afro
The Electric Company
Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
Great Performances
Messenger
60 Minutes
Self
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)
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
Today
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter