Morgan Freeman
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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Movies (214)
Nacrose
2027 · Morgan Freeman
Rode to Ruin
2027 · Joseph Mulberry
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025 · Thaddeus Bradley
In Our Blood
2025 · Executive Producer
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025 · Self
The Power of Chi
2025 · (narrator)
From the Balkans
2024 · (narrator)
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
2024 · Executive Producer
Tirador Implacable
2024 · Kendrick Ryker
Zoe, mi amiga muerta
2024 · Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
2024 · Narrator
57 segundos atrás
2023 · Anton Burrell
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023 · Self, Executive Producer
Una buena persona
2023 · Daniel
Muti: Rituales Mortales
2023 · Dr. Mackles
VM-krönika 2022
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022 · Self (archive footage)
La sombra del crimen
2022 · Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Ogun Óla: War is Coming
2022 · Producer
El gran legado de Sidney Poitier
2022 · Self
Paraíso: El camino del crimen
2022 · Gerick
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2022 · Self
Betty White: A Celebration
2022 · Self
Power of Chi
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
2021 · Executive Producer
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021 · Self
Rita Moreno: Una chica decidida a lograrlo
2021 · Self
Duro de cuidar 2
2021 · Senior
Otra forma de vencer
2021 · Damon
Un príncipe en Nueva York 2
2021 · Morgan Freeman
La última gran estafa
2020 · Reggie Fontaine
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020 · Narrator (voice)
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020 · Self
Into Nature's Wild
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Agente bajo fuego
2019 · Alan Trumbull
Brian Banks: Nunca es tarde
2019 · Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
La rosa venenosa
2019 · Doc
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
2019 · Self
El Cascanueces y Los Cuatro Reinos
2018 · Drosselmeyer
America's Musical Journey
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018 · Self
Esto recién comienza
2017 · Duke
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017 · Self
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017 · Self
Las Palabras Que Construyeron a Estados Unidos
2017 · Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Un golpe con estilo
2017 · Willie Davis
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017 · Narrator (English voice)
Ben-Hur
2016 · Sheik Ilderim
The C Word
2016 · Narrator (voice)
Los Ilusionistas 2
2016 · Thaddeus Bradley
Londres bajo fuego
2016 · Alan Trumbull
Momentum
2015 · Senator
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
2015 · Patrick Meighan
El Último Caballero
2015 · Bartok
Winter el Delfín 2
2014 · Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Lucy
2014 · Professor Norman
Memorias de Manhattan
2014 · Alex Carver, Producer
Wish Wizard
2014 · Maxwell Omni
Transcendence: Identidad virtual
2014 · Joseph Tagger
Isla de Lemurs
2014 · Narrator (voice)
La Gran Aventura LEGO
2014 · Vitruvius (voice)
We the People
2014 · Narrator (voice)
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Ultimo viaje las vegas
2013 · Archie
Los Ilusionistas: Nada es lo que Parece
2013 · Thaddeus Bradley
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013 · Self
Oblivion: El Tiempo del Olvido
2013 · Beech
Olimpo bajo fuego
2013 · Alan Trumbull
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013 · Self
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Ending the Knight
2012 · Self
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012 · Narrator (voice)
Batman: El caballero de la noche asciende
2012 · Fox
El verano de sus vidas
2012 · Monte Wildhorn
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
2012 · Narratore
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012 · Self
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012 · Self
Winter - El delfín
2011 · Dr. McCarthy
Conan El Bárbaro
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood's West
2011 · Self
Breaking the Taboo
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Nacidos para ser libres
2011 · Narrator (voice)
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010 · Narrator (voice)
RED
2010 · Joe Matheson
The 16th Man
2010 · Narrator (voice), Producer
The Eastwood Factor
2010 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
2009 · Self
Invicto
2009 · Nelson Mandela, Executive Producer
Un crimen nada perfecto
2009 · Charles Peterson
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Juego de ladrones
2009 · Keith Ripley
Batman: El caballero de la noche
2008 · Lucius Fox
El Gurú del Amor
2008 · Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)
Se Busca
2008 · Sloan
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
2008 · Self
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008
A Raisin in the Sun
2008 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Antes de Partir
2007 · Carter Chambers
All About Us
2007 · Self
Feast of Love
2007 · Harry Stevenson
Desapareció una Noche
2007 · Jack Doyle
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007 · Self
Regreso del Todopoderoso
2007 · God
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006 · Self
Greasy Rider
2006
Solo 10 razones
2006 · 'Him'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006 · Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
El contrato
2006 · Frank Carden
Asesino a Sueldo
2006 · The Boss
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005 · Neil Armstrong (voice)
Una Vida Por Delante
2005 · Mitch Bradley
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005 · Self
La Amenaza
2005 · Ashford
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005 · Self
Born to Fight
2005 · Self
La Guerra de los Mundos
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Batman inicia
2005 · Lucius Fox
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Danny: La Bestia (Unleashed)
2005 · Sam
March of the Penguins
2005 · Narrator
Blues Divas
2005 · Self
Golpes del Destino
2004 · Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004 · Self
Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption
2004 · Self
The Hunting of the President
2004 · Narrator (voice)
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004
La Trampa
2004 · Walter Crewes
Guilty by Association
2003 · Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
2003 · Self
Todopoderoso
2003 · God
El cazador de sueños
2003 · Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
2003 · Miles Evans, Executive Producer
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002 · Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Self
Partners of the Heart
2002 · Narrator (voice)
La Suma de Todos los Miedos
2002 · DCI William Cabot
Crimen en primer grado
2002 · Charlie Grimes
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001 · Self
Telaraña
2001 · Alex Cross, Executive Producer
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Narrator (voice)
Persiguiendo a Betty
2000 · Charlie
Under Suspicion
2000 · Captain Victor Benezet, Executive Producer
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999 · Self
Mutiny
1999 · Executive Producer
Impacto profundo
1998 · President Tom Beck
Violencia en la tempestad (Hard Rain)
1998 · Jim
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998 · Self, Thanks
Amistad
1997 · Theodore Joadson
Besos que matan
1997 · Det. Alex Cross
The Long Way Home
1997 · Narrator (voice)
The Making of Se7en
1997 · Self
Cosmic Voyage
1996 · Narrator (voice)
Reacción en cadena
1996 · Paul Shannon
Moll Flanders
1996 · Hibble
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996 · Edward G. Robinson
Inside the White House
1996 · Narrator (voice)
Se7en: Los Siete Pecados Capitales
1995 · Somerset
Epidemia
1995 · General Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
A Century of Cinema
1994 · Self
Bopha!
1993 · Director
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992 · Self
Los imperdonables
1992 · Ned Logan
La fuerza de uno
1992 · Geel Piet
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: El príncipe de los ladrones
1991 · Azeem
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991 · Self
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991 · Narrator (voice)
La Hoguera De Las Vanidades
1990 · Judge Leonard White
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Self
The Earth Day Special
1990 · Walter Samson
Glory
1989 · Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy
1989 · Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome
1989 · Lt. A.Z. Drones
Lean On Me
1989 · Principal Joe Clark
Clean and Sober
1988 · Craig
Clinton and Nadine
1988 · Dorsey Pratt
Fight for Life
1987 · Dr. Sherard
Street Smart
1987 · Leo 'Fast Black' Smalls, Jr.
Resting Place
1986 · Luther Johnson
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 · Warden Pratt
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985 · Charlie Woods
The Gospel at Colonus
1985 · Messenger
Marie: A True Story
1985 · Charles Traughber
Teachers
1984 · Lewis
Harry & Son
1984 · Siemanowski
The Marva Collins Story
1981 · Clarence Collins
Eyewitness
1981 · Lieutenant Black
Death of a Prophet
1981 · Malcolm X
Brubaker
1980 · Walter
Attica
1980 · Hap Richards
Hollow Image
1979 · Sweet Talk
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978 · Uncle Hammer
Out to Lunch
1974 · Self / Croupier
Energy Crisis
1974 · Self
Blade
1973 · Chris
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971 · Afro
Caught in the Middle
1970
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968 · Grand Central Commuter (uncredited), Grand Central Commuter
A Man Called Adam
1966 · Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pawnbroker
1965 · Man on Street (Uncredited)
Sniff
· Joe Mulwray
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
· Narrator (voice)
The Little Bedroom
Hate to See You Go
· Sonny Bell, Producer
A New Birth of Freedom
· Narrator
Last Meals
· Producer
Break Out
· Executive Producer
Ear Hustle
· Producer
TV shows (69)
The Dinosaurs
2026 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gray House
2026 · Executive Producer
The American Revolution
2025 · (voice)
Las estrellas afrodescendientes más influyentes de Hollywood
2025 · Self
La vida en nuestro planeta
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Operativo: Lioness
2023 · Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
LEGEND
2023
100 Años de Warner Bros.
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Muppets Mayhem: Confusión eléctrica
2023 · Morgan Freeman
Nuestro Universo
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self - Guest
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021 · Self - Host
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021 · Self
Solos
2021 · Narrator (voice), Stuart
Scooby-Doo y ¿quién crees tú?
2019 · Morgan Freeman (voice)
El método Kominsky
2018 · Morgan Freeman
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017 · Self - Host
Dave Chappelle
2017 · Opening narrator (voice)
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017 · Self
La Historia de Dios
2016 · Self - Host
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self, Self - Guest
Madam Secretary
2014 · Chief Justice Frawley, Chief Justice Wilbourne (uncredited), Director, Executive Producer
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Curiosidad
2011 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Through the Wormhole
2010 · Self - Host, Producer, Executive Producer
30 for 30
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009 · Self
Live from Studio Five
2009 · Self
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self
The Reichen Show
2005 · Self - Guest
Slavery and the Making of America
2005 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
America Beyond the Color Line
2004 · Self
Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Mark Twain Prize
1999 · Self
Parkinson
1998 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
HBO First Look
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
The Civil War
1990 · Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Masters
1986 · Narrator (voice)
The Twilight Zone
1985 · Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · Ben Shelter
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978 · Uncle Hammer
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
Spidey Super Stories
1974 · Count Dracula, Easy Reader, Police officer, Umpire, Mad Scientist, Police Officer
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
The Electric Company
1971 · Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
Great Performances
1971 · Messenger
60 Minutes
1968 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Performer
The Oscars
1953 · Self - Presenter, Self
Today
1952 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Clarence, Luther
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
The Promised Land
· Narrator (voice)