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Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, [4] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), [2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961. [5] He has three older siblings. [6] Some of Morgan's great-great-grandparents were enslaved people who ...
The following year Freeman played Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris in Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby (2004), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Freeman played Lucius Fox in a trilogy of Batman films: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
He has earned five Academy Award nominations winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood 's sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). He was also nominated for his performances in Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009). He also has earned five Golden Globe ...
Red. (2010 film) Red is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the DC Comics limited series of the same name. Produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment, it is the first film in the Red series. Directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, it stars Bruce Willis, Morgan ...
Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes. The screenplay by David Klass is based on James Patterson 's best-selling 1995 novel of the same name. A sequel titled Along Came a Spider was released in 2001.
The Bucket List. The Bucket List is a 2007 American buddy comedy-drama film directed and produced by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. [2] The main plot follows two terminally ill men on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket".
Invictus. (film) Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, making it the third collaboration between Eastwood and Freeman after Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). The story is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game ...
Lean on Me is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Michael Schiffer, and starring Morgan Freeman.It is based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is in danger of being placed into receivership of the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on ...