Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is a powerful actor. He was born in 1st June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother’s name is Mayme Edna. She was a teacher. His Father’s name is Morgan Porterfield Freeman. He was a barber. Morgan’s father died in 27th April, 1961. He died of cirrhosis. Morgan was sent to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi when he was a child. In his childhood his family shifted many places of America, during living in Greenwood, Mississippi. Morgan Freeman starts acting when he was nine. His first lead role was in a school play. He studies in Broad Street High School. Today the school runs as Threadgill Elementary School which is in Greenwood, Mississippi. At the age of 12 he won a statewide drama competition while studying there. He completes his graduation in 1955 from Broad Street. Then he serves the United States Air Force as a radar technician.

Acting career:

Morgan Freeman loved acting but he decided to join the Air Force. Afterwards he changes his mind and
began acting. At first he used to act in a small roll. After a few years he began to act in bigger roll and has won the heart of all the film loving people. To day he is one of the Hollywood stars. His popularity is world wide.

In 1960 Morgan moved to Los Angeles, California to take acting lessons from the Pasadena Playhouse, he also took dancing lessons from San Francisco. He works as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. After that he move to New York City there he works as a dancer in World’s Fair in 1964. He was a member of Opera Ring musical theater group which was in San Francisco.

In 1980 he received Obie Award for the title role in Cariolanus, he also won another Obie Award in 1984. In 1989 he own Obie Award for the third time. Morgan won a Drama Desk Award and a Clarence Derwent Award. In 1978 Morgan was nominated for the Tony Award for the best performance by a Featured Actor in the play The Mighty Gents. In 1997 he received an honorary degree from Rhodes College for becoming an honorary alumnus. In 2003 Morgan received the Crystal Globe award for his great artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2006 he receives the Guest of honor at the Cairo International Film Festival. In 2007 he and his wife received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters; he also got Screen Nation Film and TV Awards for his contribution to film and TV. In 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. In 2010 he gets an honorary degree from Brown University. In 2011 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the America Film Institute. In 2012 he was chosen as favorite movie icon at the people’s Choice Awards and Cecil B, DeMille Award.

Filmography
Year	Title	Role
1964	The Pawnbroker	Man on Street
1966	A Man Called Adam	Unknown
1968	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	Grand Central Commuter
1980	Brubaker	Walter
1981	Eyewitness	Lieutenant Black
1984	Teachers	Al Lewis
1984	Harry Son	Siemanowski
1988	Eyewitness
1989	Glory1987
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Hoke Colburn
1989	Lean on Me	Principal Joe Clark
1989	Johnny Handsome	Lt. A.Z. Drones
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Judge Leonard White
1990	The Civil War	Voice of Frederick Douglass
1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Azeem
1992	Unforgiven	Ned Logan
1992	The Power of One	Geel Piet
1993	Bopha!
1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator
1995	Outbreak	Brig. Gen. Billy Ford
1995	Se7en	Detective Lt. William Somerset
1996	Chain Reaction	Paul Shannon
1996	Moll Flanders	Hibble
1996	Cosmic Voyage	Narrator
1997	Amistad	Theodore Joadson
1997	The Long Way Home	Dr. Alex Cross
1997	Eyewitness	Narrator
1998	Deep Impact	President Tom Beck
1998	Hard Rain	Jim
2000	Nurse Betty	Charlie Quinn
2000	Under Suspicion	Victor Benezet
2001	Along Came a Spider	Dr. Alex Cross
2002	The Sum of All Fears	DCI William Cabot
2002	High Crimes	Charlie Grimes
2003	Bruce Almighty	God
2003	Dreamcatcher	Abraham Curtis
2003	Levity	Pastor Miles Evans
2003	Drug War	Lt. Redding
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris
2004	The Hunting of the President	Narrator
2004	The Big Bounce	Walter Crewes
2005	An Unfinished Life	Mitch Bradley
2005	War of the Worlds	Narrator
2005	March of the Penguins	Narrator
2005	Batman Begins	Lucius Fox
2005	Unleashed	Sam
2006	Edison Force	Ashford
2006	The Contract	Frank Carden
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	The Boss
2006	10 Items or Less	Himself
2007	Evan Almighty	God
2007	Feast of Love	Harry Stephenson
2007	Gone, Baby, Gone	Jack Doyle
2007	The Bucket List	Carter Chambers
2008	Wanted	Sloan
2008	The Love Guru	Narrator
2008	The Dark Knight	Lucius Fox
2009	Prom Night in Mississippi	Himself
2009	Thick as Thieves	Keith Ripley
2009	The Maiden Heist	Charlie
2009	Invictus	Nelson Mandela
2010	RED	Joe
2011	Born to Be Wild	Narrator
2011	Conan the Barbarian	Narrator
2011	Dolphin Tale	Dr. Cameron McCarthy
2012	The Magic of Belle Isle	Monte Wildhorn
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Lucius Fox
2013	Now You See Me	Thaddeus Bradley
2013	Oblivion	Malcolm Beech
2013	Last Vegas	Archie
2013	The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Zachariah