Morgan Freeman

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 01, 1937 (88 years old)

Morgan Freeman

Known For

Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Movie 2025

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever captured on film.

My Dead Friend Zoe
1h 43m
Movie 2025

My Dead Friend Zoe

Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor.

SBALKANU
1h 20m
Movie 2024

SBALKANU

We have two news📬 good and bad. The bad thing is that there was a holocaust and the good thing is that we will have the second movie in the cinema! 😎

Gunner
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Gunner

While on a camping trip in order to reconnect, war veteran Colonel Lee Gunner must save his two sons from a gang of violent bikers when they're kidnapped after accidentally stumbling upon to a massive drug operation.

How to Rob a Bank
1h 27m
Movie 2024

How to Rob a Bank

In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.

Odysseus Returns
1h 36m
Movie 2024

Odysseus Returns

Archaeologists have searched Ithaca for the home of King Odysseus for centuries. So, when politician Makis Metaxas discovers the king's tomb. The story of his discovery quickly spreads, but controversy surrounds the case.

Life on Our Planet
TV Show 2023

Life on Our Planet

Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.

57 Seconds
1h 39m
Movie 2023

57 Seconds

When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.

761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
1h 24m
Movie 2023

761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under General George Patten's command, the 761st fought heroically throughout WWII and were the furthest east of all US troops in the European theater of war.

100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV Show 2023

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Tracing a century of movie and TV history, these four documentary specials explore the unparalleled global impact of Warner Bros. on art, commerce, and culture.

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
SBALKANU
2024
Gunner
2024
How to Rob a Bank
2024
Odysseus Returns
2023
Life on Our Planet
2023
57 Seconds
2023
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
A Good Person
2023
The Ritual Killer
2022
Our Universe
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022
Sidney
2022
Paradise Highway
2022
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
Power of Chi
2021
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
Solos
2021
Vanquish
2021
Coming 2 America
2021
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2020
The Comeback Trail
2020
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020
Into Nature's Wild
2019
Angel Has Fallen
2019
Brian Banks
2019
The Poison Rose
2019
Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
America's Musical Journey
2018
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2017
Just Getting Started
2017
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
The Words That Built America
2017
Going in Style
2016
Ben-Hur
2016
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
2011
Curiosity
2010
Through the Wormhole
2008
The Dark Knight
2005
Slavery and the Making of America
1995
Se7en
1994
The Shawshank Redemption
1992
Unforgiven