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.
196 movies · 66 shows
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025·6.5
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025·0.0
The Power of Chi
2025·0.0
From the Balkans
2024·0.0
Gunner
2024·5.3
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024·6.3
Odysseus Returns
2024·0.0
57 Seconds
2023·6.1
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023·6.0
A Good Person
2023·7.0
The Ritual Killer
2023·5.8
VM-krönika 2022
2022·0.0
Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains
2022·0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022·7.3
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022·5.3
Sidney
2022·7.0
Paradise Highway
2022·5.9
Betty White: A Celebration
2022·8.0
Power of Chi
2022·0.0
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021·6.2
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021·7.4
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021·6.6
Vanquish
2021·5.2
Coming 2 America
2021·6.3
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2021·6.6
The Comeback Trail
2020·5.8
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020·6.5
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020·6.9
Into Nature's Wild
2020·6.0
Angel Has Fallen
2019·6.6
Brian Banks
2019·7.2
The Poison Rose
2019·4.7
Panama Canal: A Land Divided ~ A World United
2019·6.0
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018·6.1
America's Musical Journey
2018·5.6
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018·6.0
Just Getting Started
2017·4.9
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017·5.4
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017·6.7
The Words That Built America
2017·6.0
Going in Style
2017·6.7
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017·6.9
Ben-Hur
2016·5.8
The C Word
2016·6.8
Now You See Me 2
2016·6.8
London Has Fallen
2016·6.2
Momentum
2015·5.7
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015·6.0
Ted 2
2015·6.3
Last Knights
2015·6.4
Dolphin Tale 2
2014·7.0
Lucy
2014·6.5
5 Flights Up
2014·6.0
Wish Wizard
2014·3.7
Transcendence
2014·6.1
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
2014·6.2
The Lego Movie
2014·7.4
We the People
2014·3.5
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013·7.4
Last Vegas
2013·6.4
Now You See Me
2013·7.3
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013·6.1
Oblivion
2013·6.7
Olympus Has Fallen
2013·6.4
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013·6.8
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
2013·8.2
Ending the Knight
2012·7.1
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012·7.0
The Dark Knight Rises
2012·7.8
The Magic of Belle Isle
2012·7.0
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
2012·4.0
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012·6.0
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012·6.0
Dolphin Tale
2011·6.9
Conan the Barbarian
2011·5.3
Clint Eastwood's West
2011·6.0
Breaking the Taboo
2011·7.1
Born to Be Wild
2011·7.0
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010·5.8
RED
2010·6.7
The 16th Man
2010·6.8
The Eastwood Factor
2010·6.0
The People Speak
2009·7.2
Invictus
2009·7.2
The Maiden Heist
2009·5.6
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009·6.6
Thick as Thieves
2009·6.0
The Dark Knight
2008·8.5
The Love Guru
2008·4.1
Wanted
2008·6.5
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman
2008·6.0
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008·6.0
A Raisin in the Sun
2008·6.1
The Bucket List
2007·7.2
All About Us
2007·4.4
Feast of Love
2007·6.2
Gone Baby Gone
2007·7.3
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007·6.7
Evan Almighty
2007·5.6
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006·6.0
Greasy Rider
2006·0.0
10 Items or Less
2006·6.2
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006·6.5
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006·0.0
The Contract
2006·5.8
Lucky Number Slevin
2006·7.5
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005·5.8
An Unfinished Life
2005·6.8
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005·2.0
Edison
2005·5.4
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005·8.0
Born to Fight
2005·8.0
War of the Worlds
2005·6.6
Batman Begins
2005·7.7
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005·10.0
Unleashed
2005·6.9
March of the Penguins
2005·7.1
Blues Divas
2005·6.0
Million Dollar Baby
2004·8.0
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004·7.4
The Hunting of the President
2004·5.7
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004·6.6
The Big Bounce
2004·5.0
Guilty by Association
2003·3.0
Declaration of Independence
2003·7.7
Bruce Almighty
2003·6.7
Dreamcatcher
2003·5.6
Levity
2003·6.1
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002·7.4
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002·7.3
Partners of the Heart
2002·7.0
The Sum of All Fears
2002·6.4
High Crimes
2002·6.3
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001·8.4
Along Came a Spider
2001·6.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000·7.3
Nurse Betty
2000·6.1
Under Suspicion
2000·6.1
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999·6.8
Deep Impact
1998·6.2
Hard Rain
1998·5.9
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998·8.3
Amistad
1997·7.0
Kiss the Girls
1997·6.5
The Long Way Home
1997·7.1
The Making of Se7en
1997·10.0
Cosmic Voyage
1996·7.3
Chain Reaction
1996·5.8
Moll Flanders
1996·6.1
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996·10.0
Inside the White House
1996·7.3
Se7en
1995·8.4
Outbreak
1995·6.6
The Shawshank Redemption
1994·8.7
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992·0.0
Unforgiven
1992·7.9
The Power of One
1992·7.5
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991·6.8
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991·6.9
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991·6.5
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991·4.3
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990·5.6
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990·0.0
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
1990·4.0
Night of 100 Stars III
1990·4.0
The Earth Day Special
1990·6.1
Glory
1989·7.5
Driving Miss Daisy
1989·7.2
Johnny Handsome
1989·6.4
Lean On Me
1989·7.3
Clean and Sober
1988·6.3
Clinton and Nadine
1988·3.7
Fight for Life
1987·6.0
Street Smart
1987·6.0
Resting Place
1986·6.3
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985·6.6
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985·5.7
The Gospel at Colonus
1985·0.0
Marie: A True Story
1985·5.8
Teachers
1984·5.7
Harry & Son
1984·5.8
The Marva Collins Story
1981·7.4
Eyewitness
1981·5.6
Death of a Prophet
1981·4.5
Brubaker
1980·7.1
Attica
1980·5.7
Hollow Image
1979·5.7
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978·8.0
Out to Lunch
1974·8.0
Energy Crisis
1974·0.0
Blade
1973·5.5
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971·8.0
Caught in the Middle
1970·0.0
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968·5.3
A Man Called Adam
1966·6.5
The Pawnbroker
1965·7.1