Morgan Freeman 1937 88

Morgan Freeman 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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2025 Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Thaddeus Bradley

2025 Rendezvous with Rama Producer

2025 CLINT as Narrator (voice)

2025 Hate to See You Go as Sonny Bell Producer

2025 The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum as Narrator (voice)

2025 The Little Bedroom

2025 Last Meals Producer

2025 Sniff as Joe Mulwray

2025 Clint Eastwood : la légende as Self

2024 SBALKANU as (narrator)

2024 Gunner as Kendrick Ryker

2024 In Our Blood Executive Producer

2024 How to Rob a Bank as Azeem (archive footage)

2024 My Dead Friend Zoe as Dr. Cole

2024 Odysseus Returns as Narrator

2023 57 Seconds as Anton Burrell

2023 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers as Self Executive Producer

2023 Lioness as Secretary of State Edwin Mullins

2023 A Good Person as Daniel

2023 The Ritual Killer as Dr. Mackles

2022 Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)

2022 The Minute You Wake Up Dead as Sheriff Thurmond Fowler

2022 Ogun Óla: War is Coming Producer

2022 Sidney as Self

2022 Paradise Highway as Gerick

2022 Betty White: A Celebration as Self

2022 Power of Chi as Narrator (voice)

2021 The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Executive Producer

2021 Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking as Self

2021 Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It as Self

2021 Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Senior

2021 Vanquish as Damon

2021 Coming 2 America as Morgan Freeman

2021 Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers as Self

2020 The Comeback Trail as Reggie Fontaine

2020 Meeting the Beatles in India as Narrator (voice)

2020 The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II as Self

2020 Into Nature's Wild as Narrator (voice)

2020 Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize as Self

2019 Angel Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull

2019 Brian Banks as Jerome Johnson (uncredited)

2019 The Poison Rose as Doc

2019 Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United as Self

2018 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Drosselmeyer

2018 America's Musical Journey as Narrator (voice)

2018 Die Clint Eastwood Story as Self

2017 Just Getting Started as Duke

2017 Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self

2017 John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs as Self

2017 The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

2017 Going in Style as Willie Davis

2017 March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step as Narrator (English voice)

2016 Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim

2016 The C Word as Narrator (voice)

2016 Now You See Me 2 as Thaddeus Bradley

2016 London Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull

2015 Momentum as Senator

2015 JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness as Narrator (voice)

2015 Ted 2 as Patrick Meighan

2015 Last Knights as Bartok

2014 Dolphin Tale 2 as Dr. Cameron McCarthy

2014 Lucy as Professor Norman

2014 5 Flights Up as Alex Carver Producer

2014 Wish Wizard as Maxwell Omni

2014 Transcendence as Joseph Tagger

2014 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar as Narrator (voice)

2014 The Lego Movie as Vitruvius (voice)

2014 We the People as Narrator (voice)

2013 JFK: A President Betrayed as Narrator (voice)

2013 Last Vegas as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton

2013 The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)

2013 Now You See Me as Thaddeus Bradley

2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self

2013 Oblivion as Beech

2013 Olympus Has Fallen as Alan Trumbull

2013 Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot as Self

2013 The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan as Narrator (voice)

2012 Ending the Knight as Self

2012 B.B. King: The Life of Riley as Narrator (voice)

2012 The Dark Knight Rises as Fox

2012 The Magic of Belle Isle as Monte Wildhorn

2012 Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo as Narratore

2012 Echoes 'Cross the Tracks as Self

2012 Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl as Self

2011 Dolphin Tale as Dr. McCarthy

2011 Conan the Barbarian as Narrator (voice)

2011 Clint Eastwood's West as Self

2011 Breaking the Taboo as Narrator (voice)

2011 Born to Be Wild as Narrator (voice)

2010 The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office as Narrator (voice)

2010 RED as Joe Matheson

2010 The 16th Man as Narrator (voice) Producer

2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)

2010 The Eastwood Factor as Self - Narrator (voice)

2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots as Self (voice)

2009 The People Speak as Self

2009 Invictus as Nelson Mandela Executive Producer

2009 The Maiden Heist as Charles Peterson

2009 Prom Night in Mississippi as Narrator (voice)

2009 Thick as Thieves as Keith Ripley

2008 The Dark Knight as Lucius Fox

2008 Wanted as Sloan

2008 Where the Water Meets the Sky

2008 A Raisin in the Sun as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2007 The Bucket List as Carter Chambers

2007 All About Us as Self

2007 Feast of Love as Harry Stevenson

2007 Gone Baby Gone as Jack Doyle

2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self

2007 Evan Almighty as God

2006 The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits as Self

2006 10 Items or Less as 'Him'

2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self

2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")

2006 The Contract as Frank Carden

2006 Lucky Number Slevin as The Boss

2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon as Neil Armstrong (voice)

2005 An Unfinished Life as Mitch Bradley

2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self

2005 Edison as Ashford

2005 James Lipton Takes on Three as Self

2005 Born to Fight as Self

2005 War of the Worlds as Narrator (voice)

2005 Batman Begins as Lucius Fox

2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self

2005 Unleashed as Sam

2005 Blues Divas as Self

2004 Million Dollar Baby as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

2004 Genius. A Night for Ray Charles as Self

2004 The Hunting of the President as Narrator (voice)

2004 Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation

2004 The Big Bounce as Walter Crewes

2003 Guilty by Association as Lt. Redding

2003 Declaration of Independence as Self

2003 Bruce Almighty as God

2003 Dreamcatcher as Col. Abraham Curtis

2003 Levity as Miles Evans Executive Producer

2002 Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self

2002 All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger as Self

2002 Partners of the Heart as Narrator (voice)

2002 The Sum of All Fears as DCI William Cabot

2002 High Crimes as Charlie Grimes

2001 Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature as Self

2001 Along Came a Spider as Alex Cross Executive Producer

2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Narrator (voice)

2000 Nurse Betty as Charlie

2000 Under Suspicion as Captain Victor Benezet Executive Producer

1999 Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self

1999 Mutiny Executive Producer

1998 Deep Impact as President Tom Beck

1998 Hard Rain as Jim

1998 Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Self Thanks

1997 Amistad as Theodore Joadson

1997 Kiss the Girls as Det. Alex Cross

1997 The Long Way Home as Narrator (voice)

1997 The Making of Se7en as Self

1996 Cosmic Voyage as Narrator (voice)

1996 Chain Reaction as Paul Shannon

1996 Moll Flanders as Hibble

1996 Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial as Edward G. Robinson

1996 Inside the White House as Narrator (voice)

1995 Se7en as Somerset

1995 Outbreak as General Billy Ford

1994 The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

1993 Bopha! Director

1992 Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self

1992 Unforgiven as Ned Logan

1992 The Power of One as Geel Piet

1991 The True Story of Glory Continues as Narrator (voice)

1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Azeem

1991 Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self

1991 The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry as Narrator (voice)

1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities as Judge Leonard White

1990 Follow the Drinking Gourd as Narrator (voice)

1990 Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born as Narrator (voice)

1990 Night of 100 Stars III as Self

1990 The Earth Day Special as Walter Samson

1989 Glory as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins

1989 Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn

1989 Johnny Handsome as Lt. A.Z. Drones

1989 Lean On Me as Principal Joe Clark

1988 Clean and Sober as Craig

1988 Clinton and Nadine as Dorsey Pratt

1987 Fight for Life as Dr. Sherard

1987 Street Smart as Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.

1986 Resting Place as Luther Johnson

1985 The Execution of Raymond Graham as Warden Pratt

1985 The Gospel at Colonus as Messenger

1985 That Was Then... This Is Now as Charlie Woods

1985 Marie: A True Story as Charles Traughber

1984 Teachers as Lewis

1984 Harry & Son as Siemanowski

1981 The Marva Collins Story as Clarence Collins

1981 Eyewitness as Lieutenant Black

1981 Death of a Prophet as Malcolm X

1980 Brubaker as Walter

1980 Attica as Hap Richards

1979 Hollow Image as Sweet Talk

1978 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as Uncle Hammer

1974 Out to Lunch as Self / Croupier

1974 Energy Crisis as Self

1973 Blade as Chris

1971 Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! as Afro

1970 Caught in the Middle

1968 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? as Grand Central Commuter (uncredited), Grand Central Commuter

1966 A Man Called Adam as Party Guest (uncredited)

1965 The Pawnbroker as Man on Street (Uncredited)

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7.56 Western 2

7.40 Animation 1

6.71 Mystery 12

6.58 History 13

6.57 Documentary 66

6.52 War 5

6.43 Crime 37

6.41 Adventure 12

6.36 Drama 74

6.28 Family 9

6.22 Science Fiction 9

6.14 Comedy 26

6.13 Thriller 42

6.10 Action 34

6.00 Fantasy 9

5.75 TV Movie 16

5.72 Music 10

5.50 Horror 2

5.28 Romance 5