Actor, Film director, and Film narrator
(June 1, 1937-Now)
NAME
Morgan Freeman
OCCUPATIONActor,Film director
BIRTH DATEJune 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTHMemphis, Tennessee, U.S.
HOME TOWNMemphis, Tennessee
YEARS ACTIVE1964-Present
FATHER
Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961)
MOTHER
Mayme Edna (1912–2000)
Morgan Freeman was born June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee. Although he loved acting, Freeman joined the Air Force after high school to become a fighter pilot. He later realized it wasn't what he'd wanted and thus, began his acting career. After years of small parts and limited success, he began to land big roles and win critical and popular acclaim. He's now one of Hollywood's most respected stars.
Early Life
1. Freeman 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.
2. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955.
3. he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to enlist in the United States Air Force and served as an Automatic Tracking Radar Repairman, rising to the rank of Airman 1st Class.
4. After four years in the military, he moved to Los Angeles, California, took acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse and dancing lessons in San Francisco in the early 1960s, and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles City College.
Personal Life
1. Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967, until November 18, 1979.
2. Freeman married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984.
3. The couple separated in December 2007 and divorced on September 15, 2010.
4. Freeman and Colley-Lee adopted Freeman's stepgranddaughter from his first marriage, E'dena Hines, and raised her together. On August 16, 2015, Hines was murdered in New York City at age 33.
5. At age 65, Freeman earned a private pilot's license. He owns or has owned at least three private aircraft, including a Cessna Citation 501 jet and a Cessna 414 twin-engine prop. In 2007, he purchased an Emivest SJ30 long-range private jet and took delivery in December 2009. He is certified to fly all of them.
6. Freeman endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for the 2008 presidential election, although he stated that he would not join Obama's campaign.
Acting career
1. his first credited film appearance was in 1971's "Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!"
2. Freeman first became known in the American media through roles on the soap opera Another Worldand the PBS kids' show The Electric Company
3. He also starred in such films as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Unforgiven, Seven, and Deep Impact.
4. In 2010, Freeman co-starred alongside Bruce Willis in Red.
5. In 2011, Freeman was featured with John Lithgow in the Broadway debut of Dustin Lance Black's play.
6. In 2013, Freeman appeared in the action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen, the science fiction drama Oblivion, and the comedy Last Vegas. In 2014, he co-starred in the action film Lucy.
Awards
1. Morgan Freeman has been nominated for an Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award five different times.
2. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on Million Dollar Baby, and the Golden Globe for Best Actor with Driving Miss Daisy
3. On October 28, 2006, Freeman was honored at the first Mississippi's Best Awards in Jackson, Mississippi, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his works on and off the big screen.
4. In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.
