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Morgan Freeman[2] (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and 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 (1989), the biographical drama Lean on Me (1989), and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (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.

Early life[]

Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee.[3] He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher,[4] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961),[2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961.[5] He has three older siblings.[6] According to DNA analysis, some of his ancestors were from the Songhai and Tuareg people of Niger.[7] Some of Freeman's great-great-grandparents were slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. Freeman later discovered that his Caucasian maternal great-great-grandfather had lived with, and was buried beside Freeman's African-American great-great-grandmother in the segregated South, as the two could not legally marry at the time.[4] The DNA test suggested that among all of his African ancestors, a little over one-quarter came from the area that stretches from present-day Senegal to Liberia and three-quarters came from the Congo-Angola region.[8]

As an infant, Freeman was sent to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi.[9][10] He moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois.[10] When Freeman was 16 years old, he contracted pneumonia.[11] He made his acting debut at age nine, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, a building which serves today as Threadgill Elementary School, in Greenwood, Mississippi.[12] At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while settling into school, discovered music and theatre.[5]

Freeman graduated high school in 1955, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to enlist in the United States Air Force.[5] He served as an Automatic Tracking Radar repairman, rising to the rank of airman first class.[13] After serving from 1955 to 1959, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and took acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse.[5] He also studied theatre arts at Los Angeles City College, where a teacher encouraged him to embark on a dance career.[14]

Career[]

1964–1988: Early work and rise to prominence[]

1989–1996: Hollywood breakthrough[]

1997–2004: Critical success and established actor[]

2005–2013: Documentaries and thriller films[]

2014–present: Continued success[]

Other ventures[]

Environmental activism[]

In 2004, Freeman helped form the Grenada Relief Fund to aid people affected by Hurricane Ivan on the island of Grenada. The fund has since become PLANIT NOW, an organization that seeks to provide preparedness resources for people living in areas affected by hurricanes and severe storms.[15] In 2014, he narrated a clip titled What's Possible, which debuted at the United Nations climate summit.[16] Freeman has donated to the Mississippi Horse Park in Starkville, Mississippi, part of Mississippi State University and Freeman has several horses that he takes there.[17]

After learning about the decline of honeybees, Freeman decided to turn his 124-acre ranch into a bee sanctuary in July 2014, starting with 26 beehives.[18]

Political activism[]

In 2005, Freeman criticized the celebration of Black History Month, saying: "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."[19] He opined that the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he noted that there is no "white history month".[19] In an interview with 60 Minutes's Mike Wallace, Freeman said: "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."[19][20] Freeman supported the defeated proposal to change the Mississippi state flag, which incorporated the Confederate battle flag at the time.[21][22] In an interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, Freeman drew controversy when he accused the Tea Party movement of racism.[23][24][25] Regarding the 2015 Baltimore protests, Freeman said he was "absolutely" supportive of the protesters. "That unrest [in Baltimore] has nothing to do with terrorism at all, except the terrorism we suffer from the police. ... Because of the technology—everybody has a smartphone—now in reaction to the death of Freddie Gray we can see what the police are doing. We can show the world, 'Look, this is what happened in that situation.' So why are so many people dying in police custody? And why are they all Black? And why are all the police killing them white? What is that? The police have always said, 'I feared for my safety.' Well, now we know. OK. You feared for your safety while a guy was running away from you, right?"[26]

During the 2008 presidential election, Freeman endorsed Barack Obama's presidential bid, although he said he would not join Obama's campaign.[27] He provided the voice of the narrator for Disney World's The Hall of Presidents when Obama was added to the exhibit,[28][29] and when The Hall of Presidents re-opened on July 4, 2009, at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.[29] On day four of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Freeman provided the voiceover for the video introduction of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.[30][31] On September 19, 2017, Freeman appeared in a video by the Committee to Investigate Russia group,[32][33] in which he declared "we [United States] are at war" and accusing Russia of "launching cyber attacks and spreading false information".[34][35]

In June 2021, he donated $1 million along with University of Mississippi Professor Linda Keena to the university in order to establish the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform.[36]

Business ventures[]

In 1997, Freeman and business partner Lori McCreary founded Revelations Entertainment, a film production company. They also founded ClickStar in 2006, a film download company, with investment from Intel Corporation.[37] ClickStar ceased operations in 2008.[38] Freeman owns and operates Ground Zero, a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and is the former co-owner of Madidi, a fine dining restaurant in the same city.[39]

Personal life[]

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Freeman with daughter Morgana at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990

Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967, until November 18, 1979,[40] and subsequently married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984.[40] The couple separated in December 2007[41] and divorced on September 15, 2010.[41] Freeman has four children: Alfonso, Deena, Morgana, and Saifoulaye.[42] Freeman and Colley-Lee also raised Freeman's step-granddaughter from his first marriage, E'dena Hines.[43] On August 16, 2015, 33-year-old Hines was murdered in New York City.[44]

Freeman resides in Charleston, Mississippi, and maintains a home in New York City.[45][46] He earned a private pilot's license at age 65[47] and owns or has owned at least three private aircraft, including both a Cessna Citation 501 and Cessna 414, and an Emivest SJ30.[48][49][50]

When asked if he believed in God, Freeman said: "It's a hard question because as I said at the start, I think we invented God. So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God."[51] Freeman later said that his experience working on The Story of God with Morgan Freeman did not change his views on religion.[52] He is a practicing Zoroastrian.[53][54]

On the evening of August 3, 2008, Freeman was injured in an automobile crash when his 1997 Nissan Maxima was involved in a rollover near Ruleville, Mississippi. He and his passenger, Demaris Meyer, had to be cut free from the vehicle with hydraulic tools. Freeman was conscious after the crash and joked with a photographer at the scene.[55] He was taken via helicopter to The Regional Medical Center (The Med) hospital in Memphis.[56][57] His left shoulder, arm, and elbow had been broken in the accident, and he received surgery on August 5. Doctors operated on him for four hours to repair nerve damage in his shoulder and arm.[58] His publicist announced he was expected to make a full recovery.[59] Although alcohol was not considered a factor in the crash,[60] Meyer sued Freeman for negligence, claiming that he had been consuming alcohol, but the suit was eventually settled for an undisclosed amount.[61] Since the incident, Freeman suffers from fibromyalgia.[62]

In December 2010, Freeman joined President Bill Clinton, President of the United States Soccer Federation Sunil Gulati, and soccer player Landon Donovan in Zurich for a presentation to bid for the U.S hosting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[63]

Allegations of sexual harassment[]

On May 24, 2018, CNN published an investigation in which eight women accused Freeman of being "overly flirtatious" by "making inappropriate comments" while on the set of films or at his production company.[64] In response, Freeman issued a statement: "Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy. I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected—that was never my intent."[65][66] The spokesperson for Lori McCreary, Freeman's business partner, did not respond to CNN's request for comment.[67]

Several journalists spoke out in response to the story, including Tyra Martin who stated, "I’m not, never was [a victim]. CNN totally misrepresented the video and took my remarks out of context.”[68] Freeman's lawyer demanded that CNN retract the story.[69] The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) did not take any action against Freeman.[70] On December 8, 2020, La Opinión reported on a Spanish-language blog post from 2018 that alleged that CNN fabricated their report on Freeman.[71]

Artistry and legacy[]

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Freeman at the 2018 Deauville American Film Festival

Freeman's deep voice is considered to be distinctive, iconic, and recognizable, which frequently makes him a preferable choice for narration in films and documentaries.[72][73] The journalist Radhika Sanghani writes that his "deeply reassuring voice, with its mellifluous tones and authoritative presence, is why an entire generation still hear his trademark tones when they think of the almighty".[74] Freeman said that his voice developed in this way while taking speech classes in college; he found that most people speak in a voice either too fast or too high and he developed a commanding voice by speaking in a lower octave and enunciating each word.[75]

According to author Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Freeman is an intuitive actor. He likes to select his roles carefully, and study the character to ensure he portrays them with depth, sensitivity, and substance.[76] Commenting on Freeman's persona, Beverly Todd, who co-starred with him in Lean on Me (1989) and The Bucket List (2007), said: "The world knows he is such a consummate actor. He's a very sharing actor and such a nice guy. He's not the kind of actor who demands that he has all of the scenes and all the dialogues and all the emphasis is on him".[77] Freeman has said he is interested in playing character roles,[78] and values the importance of listening carefully while filming scenes: "The big danger in acting is to wait for your line. That's what I never do. I always listen, no matter how many times we do it."[79]

On October 28, 2006, Freeman was honored at the first Mississippi's Best Awards in Jackson, Mississippi with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in film and theatre. He received an honorary Doctor of Arts and Letters degree from Delta State University during the school's commencement exercises on May 13, 2006.[80] In 2013, Boston University presented him with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.[81] On November 12, 2014, he was bestowed the honor of Freedom of the City by the City of London.[82]

In 2008, Freeman was chosen as a Kennedy Center Honoree at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.[83] In 2011, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to the film industry. Those who honored Freeman included Sidney Poitier, Samuel L. Jackson, Forest Whitaker, Rita Moreno, Helen Mirren, Clint Eastwood, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Matthew Broderick.[84] In 2012, he was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the film industry.[85][86] In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.[87] His co-star Rita Moreno from The Electric Company presented him the award in the following January.[88]

Filmography and theatre credits[]

Main article(s): Morgan Freeman on screen and stage

Select filmography:

Prolific in film since 1964, Freeman's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include:[89][90]

Select theatre roles:[91]

  • The Lovers (1967)
  • Purlie (1970–71)
  • Coriolanus (1979)
  • Julius Caesar (1979)
  • Driving Miss Daisy (1987–90)
  • The Gospel at Colonus (1988)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1990)

Select television roles:[90]

  • The Electric Company (1971–1977)
  • The Long Way Home (1997)
  • The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)
  • The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman (2017)
  • Madam Secretary (2017)
  • The Kominsky Method (2021)

Awards and nominations[]

Main article(s): List of awards and nominations received by Morgan Freeman

Freeman has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:

  • 60th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor, nomination, for Street Smart (1987)[92]
  • 62nd Academy Awards: Best Actor, nomination, for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)[93]
  • 67th Academy Awards: Best Actor, nomination, for The Shawshank Redemption (1994)[94]
  • 77th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor, win, for Million Dollar Baby (2004)[95]
  • 82nd Academy Awards: Best Actor, nomination, for Invictus (2009)[96]

Freeman has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).[97] He has also been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning one for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Million Dollar Baby (2004).[98] He earned an Obie Award for each theatre role in Coriolanus (1979), Mother Courage and Her Children (1980), and Driving Miss Daisy (1987–90).[78]

See also[]

  • African Americans in Mississippi

References[]

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