Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman is one of the most recognizable figures
in American cinema. His works are among the most critically and commercially successful films
of all time. Freeman ranks within the Top 10 worldwide top-grossing actors of all time, with his
films having earned over $5 billion in cumulative ticket sales. Whether a role requires an air of
gravitas, a playful smile, twinkle of the eye, or a world-weary, yet insightful soul, Freeman's ability
to delve into the core of a character and infuse it with a quiet dignity has resulted in some of
the most memorable cinematic characters committed to film.
In 2005 Freeman won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in “Million
Dollar Baby.” Freeman also received an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for Best
Supporting Actor for “Street Smart,” in 1994 for Best Actor for “The Shawshank Redemption,”
and in 2010 for Best Actor for “Invictus.” He also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his
performance in “Driving Miss Daisy” in 1990.
Freeman was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018,
recognizing his career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments. Freeman was also
honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. That same year,
Freeman received the 39th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, Freeman received the
coveted Kennedy Center Honor for his distinguished acting, and was honored with the
Hollywood Actor Award from the Hollywood Film Festival.
In 2010, Freeman won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his performance
as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.” In addition to his Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, he
also received a Golden Globe nomination and a Broadcast Critics Association nomination. The
picture was produced by Revelations Entertainment, the company he co-founded in 1996 with
Lori McCreary with a mission to produce films that reveal truth. Since its inception,
Revelations has continued to be the frontrunner in the field of digital technology.
Freeman will next be seen in “A Good Person,” “57 SECONDS,” “Paradise Highway,” “The
Minute You Wake Up Dead,” “Comeback Trail,” “Hitman’s Wife Bodyguard,” “Vanquished,”
“Hate to See You Go,” and “Hunting Darkness.”
Most recently through Revelations Entertainment, he was an Executive Producer on the timely
and powerful true drama “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” and “Princess of the Row.” Also
through Revelations Entertainment, Freeman hosted and produced a nonfiction series for the
History Channel entitled “Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman” about the biggest jailbreaks
from the world’s more notorious prisons, which will air starting November 2021. Freeman was
an executive producer with McCreary on the Revelations series “Madam Secretary” for CBS,
starring Téa Leoni, which recently aired its sixth and final season. He hosted and was an
executive producer also for the three-time Emmy nominated Revelations series “Through the
Wormhole with Morgan Freeman” for Science Channel. Also through Revelations, he hosted
both the Emmy nominated event series “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman” for three
seasons and “The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman,” both, respectively, on the National
Geographic Channel.
Revelations’ features include “5 Flights Up,” starring Freeman, “Invictus,” “The Code,” “The
Magic of Belle Isle,” “Levity,” “Under Suspicion,” “Mutiny,” “Bopha!”, “Along Came a Spider,”
“Feast of Love,” “10 Items or Less,” “Maiden Heist” and the Peabody Award winning ESPN 30
For 30 documentary, “The 16th Man.”
On television, he was most recently seen in his Emmy-nominated guest star role in the Netflix hit
series “The Kominsky Method,” and Amazon’s sci-fi anthology series “Solos.”
Other feature films include “Vanquish,” “Coming 2 America” in a special guest role, “The
Comeback Trail” alongside Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones, Lionsgate’s “The Hitman’s
Wife’s Bodyguard,” “Angel has Fallen,” and “The Poison Rose,” Disney’s “The Nutcracker and
the Four Realms,” Broad Green Pictures’ “Just Getting Started,” Warner Bros.’ “Going In Style,”
Paramount Pictures’ “Ben-Hur,” Summit Entertainment’s “Now You See Me 2” Focus Features’
“London Has Fallen,” Universal’s “Ted 2,” “Last Knights,” “Lucy,” "Dolphin Tale 2,"
"Transcendence," "The Lego Movie," "Last Vegas," "Now You See Me," "Oblivion," "Olympus
Has Fallen" and "The Dark Knight Rises."
Freeman narrated the documentary “March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step,” for which he
received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Narrator. He also narrated “The C-Word,” IMAX
documentary “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar," Science Channel’s “Stem Cell Universe with
Stephen Hawking” and history documentary "We the People." Past narrations include two
Academy Award-winning documentaries, “The Long Way Home” and “The March of The
Penguins.”
Other credits include “Dolphin’s Tale,” “Born to be Wild 3D,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Bucket
List,” “Glory,” “Clean and Sober,” “Lean on Me,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” “Unforgiven,”
“Se7en,” “Kiss the Girls,” “Amistad,” “Deep Impact,” “Nurse Betty,” “The Sum of All Fears,”
“Bruce Almighty,” “Nurse Betty,” ”Coriolanus,” “Attica,” “Brubaker,” “Eyewitness,” “Death of
a Prophet,” and “Along Came a Spider.”
After beginning his acting career on the off-Broadway stage productions of “The
Niggerlovers” and the all African-American production of “Hello Dolly”, Freeman segued into
television. Many people grew up watching him on the long-running Children's Television
Workshop classic “The Electric Company,” where he played the ironic Easy Reader among
several recurring characters. Looking for his next challenge, he set his sights on both Broadway
and the silver screen simultaneously and quickly began to fill his resume with memorable
performances.
In 1978 Freeman won a Drama Desk Award for his role as Zeke in “The Mighty Gents.” He also
received a Tony Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor.
His stage work continued to earn him accolades and awards, including Obie Awards in 1980,
1984 and 1987 and a second Drama Desk Nomination in 1987 for the role of Hoke Colburn,
which he created for the Alfred Uhry play “Driving Miss Daisy” and reprised in the 1989 movie of
the same name.