Morgan Freeman was an actor, director and also a narrator. He was well known for his distinctive deep voice and the various roles in the wide variety of the film genres. Actor Morgan Freeman was born in 1st June 1937 at Memphis city, Tennessee State, in the country of USA.
Morgan Freeman parents are Mamie Edna (mother) and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (Father). His mother was a teacher and father was a barber.
Morgan Freeman had received multiple accolades throughout his career spanning over five decades including as Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Morgan Freeman had 3 older siblings. They are according to the DNA analysis of his ancestors was from the Songhai and Tuareg people of Niger. The DNA test had suggested that all of his African ancestors were a little over one quarter. It had come from the area that had stretches from the present day Senegal to Liberia.
Morgan Freeman was contracted with pneumonia when he was 16 years old. He got graduated his school in the year 1955.
Morgan Freeman had served as an Automatic Tracking Radar repairman. After serving from 1955 to 1959 he had moved to the Los Angeles in California. After that he had joined classes into the Pasadena Playhouse.
Morgan Freeman had also studied the theatre arts at the Los Angeles City College.
In that college one of the teacher had encouraged him to enter on to a dance career. He had worked as a dancer at the 1964 World’s Fair. He has also a member of the Opera Ring musical theatre group in San Francisco.
Morgan Freeman got married to the “Jeanette Adair Bradshaw” in the year of 1967, but they are divorced at 1979. After that, he married “Myrna Colley-Lee” on 16 June 1984. But they got separated in December 2007. After that they got officially divorced on 15th September 2010.
Morgan Freeman had 4 children Alfonso, Deena, Morgana and Saifoulaye. He and Colley-Lee was also raised Freeman’s step granddaughter from his first marriage, E’dena Hines. Unfortunately the 33 year old E’Dena Hines was got murdered in the New York City on 16th August 2015.
Morgan Freeman at the age of 65 obtained a private pilot’s license. He owns 3 private aircrafts. These include a Cessna Citation 501, a Cessna 414 & an Emivest SJ30.
Morgan Freeman appeared in Shakespearean plays such as “Coriolanus” and “Julius Caesar”. For his role in “Coriolanus,” he earned an Obie Award. He had raised to fame in the 1970s for the role in children’s television series “The Electric Company”.
Morgan Freeman’s breakout role was in the film “Street Smart” in the year 1987. He played a hustler in the film, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Morgan Freeman had achieved further stardom in the Glory in the year 1989.
He also starred in the biological drama “Lean on Me” in the same year. Also, he starred in the comedy drama “Driving Miss Daisy” in the year 1989. The latter film garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Morgan Freeman had starred in a western revenge film called “Unforgiven” in 1992. This was alongside Clint Eastwood. It was the first of several collaborations with Eastwood.
Morgan Freeman had starred in a prison drama called “The Shawshank Redemption”. For this role, he received another Academy Award nomination. He was also starred in the David Fincher’s crime thriller “Seven” in the year 1995.
Actor Morgan Freeman also acted in Steven Spielberg’s historical drama Amistad in the year 1997.
Morgan Freeman had received his 5th Oscar nomination for actingas a former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood’s Invictus. He was also known for his performance as the “Lucius Fox” in the Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Trilogy” in the year 2005 to 2012.
Morgan Freeman had directed the drama Bopha in the year 1993. He had also founded a film production company called Revelations Entertainment with his business partner Lori McCreary.
The Kennedy Center Honor was bestowed upon Morgan Freeman. Also, he was also honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award. Additionally, he was awarded the Cecil B. DeMile Award.
Lastly, Morgan Freeman received the “Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award”. He had won the 3 Obie Awards in that one of the most prestigious honors for the recognizing the excellence in the theatre.
