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Morgan Freeman

Also known as Morgan Porterfield Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

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Morgan Freeman is an American film producer, television actor, film director, and aircraft pilot. Born in Memphis, he is a member of the Democratic Party and identifies as African American. Freeman is left-handed and speaks English. His professional career began in 1964. He was educated at Los Angeles City College.

Freeman has received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Kennedy Center Honors, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and Golden Globes. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. His recognized works include *Now You See Me 2*, *FlavorDoctor Diet*, *Decisions that shook the world*, *Island Of Lemurs*, and *Slavery and the making of America*. He is listed in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

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FlavorDoctor Diet
Now You See Me 2
Decisions that shook the world
Island Of Lemurs
Slavery and the making of America

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1937

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Blessed Virgin Mary’s Face‐to‐Face Encounter with the Divine Bullshit2016

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The Electric Company

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Encyclopedic overview

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi, where he began acting in school plays. He studied theater 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. In 1978, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Zeke in the Richard Wesley play The Mighty Gents.

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