Morgan Freeman
Acting • Born 1937-06-01
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.
Filmography
273 credits
Unforgiven
Movie • 1992
Ned Logan
Million Dollar Baby
Movie • 2004
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
War of the Worlds
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight
Movie • 2008
Lucius Fox
Lucky Number Slevin
Movie • 2006
The Boss
Batman Begins
Movie • 2005
Lucius Fox
The Shawshank Redemption
Movie • 1994
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Bruce Almighty
Movie • 2003
God
Driving Miss Daisy
Movie • 1989
Hoke Colburn
Johnny Handsome
Movie • 1989
Lt. A.Z. Drones
Sniff
Movie
Joe Mulwray
Along Came a Spider
Movie • 2001
Alex Cross
The Contract
Movie • 2006
Frank Carden
Brubaker
Movie • 1980
Walter
Unleashed
Movie • 2005
Sam
Se7en
Movie • 1995
Somerset
Under Suspicion
Movie • 2000
Captain Victor Benezet
Edison
Movie • 2005
Ashford
10 Items or Less
Movie • 2006
'Him'
An Unfinished Life
Movie • 2005
Mitch Bradley
Evan Almighty
Movie • 2007
God
Nurse Betty
Movie • 2000
Charlie
The Sum of All Fears
Movie • 2002
DCI William Cabot
Gone Baby Gone
Movie • 2007
Jack Doyle
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Movie • 2005
Neil Armstrong (voice)
Levity
Movie • 2003
Miles Evans
Hard Rain
Movie • 1998
Jim
Invictus
Movie • 2009
Nelson Mandela
High Crimes
Movie • 2002
Charlie Grimes
The Bucket List
Movie • 2007
Carter Chambers
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Dreamcatcher
Movie • 2003
Col. Abraham Curtis
Outbreak
Movie • 1995
General Billy Ford
Teachers
Movie • 1984
Lewis
The Maiden Heist
Movie • 2009
Charles Peterson
Amistad
Movie • 1997
Theodore Joadson
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Movie • 1991
Azeem
Eyewitness
Movie • 1981
Lieutenant Black
Deep Impact
Movie • 1998
President Tom Beck
Chain Reaction
Movie • 1996
Paul Shannon
Wanted
Movie • 2008
Sloan
The Hunting of the President
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Kiss the Girls
Movie • 1997
Det. Alex Cross
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Movie • 2005
Self
The Big Bounce
Movie • 2004
Walter Crewes
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Movie • 1990
Judge Leonard White
Glory
Movie • 1989
Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
The People Speak
Movie • 2009
Self
Cosmic Voyage
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
The Power of One
Movie • 1992
Geel Piet
Death of a Prophet
Movie • 1981
Malcolm X
Clean and Sober
Movie • 1988
Craig
Feast of Love
Movie • 2007
Harry Stevenson
Lean On Me
Movie • 1989
Principal Joe Clark
Thick as Thieves
Movie • 2009
Keith Ripley
Street Smart
Movie • 1987
Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
Gunner
Movie • 2024
Kendrick Ryker
Prom Night in Mississippi
Movie • 2009
Narrator (voice)
Dolphin Tale
Movie • 2011
Dr. McCarthy
Guilty by Association
Movie • 2003
Lt. Redding
That Was Then... This Is Now
Movie • 1985
Charlie Woods
RED
Movie • 2010
Joe Matheson
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie • 2012
Fox
Betty White: A Celebration
Movie • 2022
Self
Moll Flanders
Movie • 1996
Hibble
Born to Be Wild
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Resting Place
Movie • 1986
Luther Johnson
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Movie • 2022
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Harry & Son
Movie • 1984
Siemanowski
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
Movie
Narrator (voice)
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Movie • 2023
Self
Oblivion
Movie • 2013
Beech
Now You See Me
Movie • 2013
Thaddeus Bradley
57 Seconds
Movie • 2023
Anton Burrell
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
Movie • 2012
Self
Paradise Highway
Movie • 2022
Gerick
Marie: A True Story
Movie • 1985
Charles Traughber
Breaking the Taboo
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
The Magic of Belle Isle
Movie • 2012
Monte Wildhorn
Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United
Movie • 2019
Self
Clinton and Nadine
Movie • 1988
Dorsey Pratt
Inside the White House
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
The True Story of Glory Continues
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice)
The Long Way Home
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
Movie • 2010
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Movie • 1985
Warden Pratt
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Movie • 1996
Edward G. Robinson
Olympus Has Fallen
Movie • 2013
Alan Trumbull
Transcendence
Movie • 2014
Joseph Tagger
The Little Bedroom
Movie
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
Last Vegas
Movie • 2013
Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
The Lego Movie
Movie • 2014
Vitruvius (voice)
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Movie • 1999
Self
The Marva Collins Story
Movie • 1981
Clarence Collins
JFK: A President Betrayed
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Lucy
Movie • 2014
Professor Norman
Dolphin Tale 2
Movie • 2014
Dr. Cameron McCarthy
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Movie • 2013
Self
Attica
Movie • 1980
Hap Richards
London Has Fallen
Movie • 2016
Alan Trumbull
Fight for Life
Movie • 1987
Dr. Sherard
5 Flights Up
Movie • 2014
Alex Carver
We the People
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Wish Wizard
Movie • 2014
Maxwell Omni
Blues Divas
Movie • 2005
Self
Now You See Me 2
Movie • 2016
Thaddeus Bradley
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Movie • 1978
Uncle Hammer
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
Movie • 2021
Self
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Movie • 2012
Self
Ben-Hur
Movie • 2016
Sheik Ilderim
My Dead Friend Zoe
Movie • 2024
Dr. Cole
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Movie • 2017
Self
Last Knights
Movie • 2015
Bartok
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Ted 2
Movie • 2015
Patrick Meighan
Momentum
Movie • 2015
Senator
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
Movie • 2012
Narratore
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Going in Style
Movie • 2017
Willie Davis
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Movie • 1991
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Die Clint Eastwood Story
Movie • 2018
Self
Clint Eastwood's West
Movie • 2011
Self
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Movie • 2004
Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie • 2007
Self
Sidney
Movie • 2022
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Movie • 2025
Thaddeus Bradley
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Movie • 1968
Grand Central Commuter (uncredited)
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Movie • 1998
Self
Declaration of Independence
Movie • 2003
Self
Just Getting Started
Movie • 2017
Duke
How to Rob a Bank
Movie • 2024
Azeem (archive footage)
The C Word
Movie • 2016
Narrator (voice)
The Earth Day Special
Movie • 1990
Walter Samson
Caught in the Middle
Movie • 1970
The Gospel at Colonus
Movie • 1985
Messenger
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie • 2018
Drosselmeyer
Out to Lunch
Movie • 1974
Self / Croupier
Odysseus Returns
Movie • 2024
Narrator
Conan the Barbarian
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Blade
Movie • 1973
Chris
Angel Has Fallen
Movie • 2019
Alan Trumbull
The Words That Built America
Movie • 2017
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice)
Where the Water Meets the Sky
Movie • 2008
The Poison Rose
Movie • 2019
Doc
America's Musical Journey
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
Movie • 2001
Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie • 2006
Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Movie • 2021
Senior
The Pawnbroker
Movie • 1965
Man on Street (Uncredited)
Partners of the Heart
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Brian Banks
Movie • 2019
Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
The Comeback Trail
Movie • 2020
Reggie Fontaine
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
Movie • 2004
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Movie • 2002
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie • 2002
Self
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Movie • 2006
Self
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Movie • 2020
Self
Ending the Knight
Movie • 2012
Self
The 16th Man
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Into Nature's Wild
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Meeting the Beatles in India
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Movie • 1968
Grand Central Commuter
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
Movie • 1971
Afro
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Movie • 2021
Self
A Man Called Adam
Movie • 1966
Party Guest (uncredited)
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
A Good Person
Movie • 2023
Daniel
Vanquish
Movie • 2021
Damon
Coming 2 America
Movie • 2021
Morgan Freeman
All About Us
Movie • 2007
Self
Hate to See You Go
Movie
Sonny Bell
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Movie • 2021
Self
Hollow Image
Movie • 1979
Sweet Talk
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie • 2006
Self
The Ritual Killer
Movie • 2023
Dr. Mackles
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
CLINT
Movie
Narrator (voice)
From the Balkans
Movie • 2024
(narrator)
The Making of Se7en
Movie • 1997
Self
Power of Chi
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Movie • 2017
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie • 1992
Self
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Movie • 2025
Self
Energy Crisis
Movie • 1974
Self
James Lipton Takes on Three
Movie • 2005
Self
Born to Fight
Movie • 2005
Self
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Movie • 2017
Narrator (English voice)
March of the Penguins
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Greasy Rider
Movie • 2006
The Power of Chi
Movie • 2025
(narrator)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
TV • 2019
Morgan Freeman (voice)
The Electric Company
TV • 1971
Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
The Jay Leno Show
TV • 2009
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Clarence
The Civil War
TV • 1990
Frederick Douglass
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
Slavery and the Making of America
TV • 2005
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self - Presenter
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
30 for 30
TV • 2009
Through the Wormhole
TV • 2010
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Promised Land
TV
Narrator (voice)
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
TV • 2021
Self - Host
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Curiosity
TV • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
TV • 2016
Self - Host
Spidey Super Stories
TV • 1974
Police officer
Spidey Super Stories
TV • 1974
Umpire
Spidey Super Stories
TV • 1974
Count Dracula
Spidey Super Stories
TV • 1974
Easy Reader
The Chris Rock Show
TV • 1997
Lioness
TV • 2023
Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
The Muppets Mayhem
TV • 2023
Morgan Freeman
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV • 1979
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
TV • 2017
Self - Host
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
America Beyond the Color Line
TV • 2004
Self
The Atlanta Child Murders
TV • 1985
Ben Shelter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Luther
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
American Masters
TV • 1986
Narrator (voice)
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Our Universe
TV • 2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
Life on Our Planet
TV • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
Solos
TV • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
TV • 1978
Uncle Hammer
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Messenger
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
TV • 2025
Self
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Chief Justice Frawley
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Chief Justice Wilbourne (uncredited)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Solos
TV • 2021
Stuart
Mark Twain Prize
TV • 1999
Self
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
(voice)
The Dinosaurs
TV • 2026
Self - Narrator (voice)
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
TV • 2017
Self