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Morgan Freeman Wiki Biography

American actor Morgan Freeman is one of the legends in the film industry, born on 1 June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. Morgan is known for his versatility, and particularly from films which include “Million Dollar Baby” in 2004 for which he won a Best Supporting Oscar, and “Driving Miss Daisy” in 1999 which brought him a Golden Globe Award.

So just how rich is Morgan Freeman, as of mid-2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Morgan’s net worth is over $220 million, accumulated largely through his career as an actor which spans more than 50 years. In addition, Morgan has increased his wealth working as a film director and narrator.

Freeman is descended partly from the Tuareg of West Africa – his mother, Mayme was a teacher, and his father, Morgan Sr. worked as a barber. Morgan was just nine when he played a leading role in a school play, then while studying at what is now Greenwood High School, Mississippi he won a statewide drama competition, and performed in a radio show. After school he then joined the US Air Force for four years, working on radar, after which he lived in Los Angeles, taking acting and dancing lessons.

Beginning in 1960, he worked as a dancer in the Opera Ring musical theater group, and for most of the ‘60s worked on the stage, winning three Obie Awards for the title role in ‘Coriolanus’, as a preacher in “The Gospel at Colonus”, and thirdly as a chauffeur in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’. Freeman is also a winner of a Drama Desk Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his role as a wino in ‘The Mighty Gents’. His net worth was now well established.

Morgan became better known through roles in the TV soap opera ‘Another World’ and the kids’ TV series ‘The Electric Company’ in the early ‘70s. On the big screen Freeman was cast in prominent supporting roles, which boosted his reputation, and so moved to bigger roles which increased his net worth significantly. He reprised his stage role in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, played Sergeant Major Rawlins in ‘Glory’, Red in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, Azeem in ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’, Ned Logan in ‘Unforgiven’ produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, Detective William Somerset in ‘Seven’ and President Tom Beck in ‘Deep Impact’ directed by Mimi Leder, among many other roles.

Freeman’s net worth rose further after he established the film production company Revelations Entertainment together with Lori McCreary and online film distribution company ClickStar, together with his sister. In addition to this, he continued his career as an actor, starring in the religious comedy film ‘Bruce Almighty’ and its sequel ‘Evan Almighty’, a superhero based on the character Batman in “Batman Begins” and two sequels, and the comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner – ‘The Bucket List’.

More recently, Freeman played Nelson Mandella in “Invictus”, and starred in the action comedy film ‘Red’ with Bruce Willis, and in the science fiction film ‘Oblivion’.

Aside from acting, Morgan Freeman directorial debut was in 1993 with “Bopha!” for Paramount Pictures, and in using his distinctive voice, Freeman actually replaced Walter Cronkite introducing the CBS Evening News in 2010. Also since 2010, Freeman has hosted “Through the Wormhole” on the Discovery Channel.

His many roles have increased Morgan Freeman’s net worth and brought him fame and awards, as aside from his Oscar and Golden Globe, he is the winner of a Black Reel Award, seven NAACP Image Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and fifteen Film Critic Awards. Moreover, Freeman’s net worth rose after he received an Award for Lifetime achievement in Mississippi in 2006.

In his personal life, Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from 1967 to 1979. He then married Myrna Colley-Lee in 1984, but the couple finally divorced in 2007. He has four children including two from extra-marital affairs prior to his first marriage.

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Morgan Freeman Quick Info

Morgan Freeman Trademarks

1. Rich yet mellow voice
2. Deep authoratitve voice
3. Often plays authorative leaders that seem highly trustworthy (even when they are not)
4. [Narration] Often provides narration for his films, as either himself or the character he is playing.
5. Frequently plays characters with calm demeanor

Morgan Freeman Quotes

• Stillness. It’s what I learn from the actors I work with. That’s all, and that’s the hardest thing.
• [on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963] On that dreadful afternoon I, along with most of the other people in New York, found myself on the street, wandering in a daze, shocked to realize the enormity of the act. I think that’s when America began to lose her way.
• I never wanted to be a movie star. I never wanted to be a personality. Then all you do is turn yourself into what the audience wants and play it over and over. That’s what movie stars do.
• [on Michael Wincott] Michael is a sweetheart, he has an enormous power. He is one of those people who’s totally dedicated to what he’s doing. I certainly get enjoyment out of working with him. He’s great to rehearse with, he’s always got ideas and this incredible sense of humor and this kind of outlandish take on things.
• I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn’t really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don’t get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That’s how it works.
• [on The Shawshank Redemption (1994)] That is the film that most people will mention. It’s not the only one, but it’s the most common. I think more people have seen Shawshank than have seen anything else bar Casablanca (1942). Me, I just take the compliment.
• Glory (1989) does what I think movies are best at, and that is giving you a lesson in history. Glory is a story that nobody knew. It’s American history that was completely ignored, and there is an awful lot of that. It is because the people who tell the story tell their own story. So if you ever ask, any time down the line, that’s always the film I’ll be most proud of.
• I don’t like tension on a set — at all, of any kind.
• I don’t do accents. But I was going to have to do some sort of accent and do my best to sound like Mandela. I really fretted over that because he’s an iconic figure. If you screw it up you’ve screwed it up. But once we got into production, it all fell into place. — on the toughest aspect of preparing for “Invictus”
• The fact that the people who are making the decisions about moviemaking are not moviemakers is a big problem.
• I’m not good at anything else. Certainly not golf. — on why he is an actor.
• I don’t think that anything where you start off with something is an art form. If you start off with a blank page or a blank canvas or a blank slab or a blank stone, you’re going to create something. If someone brings it to you and says, “Can you enlarge upon it?”.
• I don’t know about anyone else, but my kids didn’t have me. I was busy trying to be somebody. Now I have all these debts to pay. — on the personal toll being an actor can take on a person.
• Isn’t there a big, 800-pound gorilla missing here? Money, money, money. You work all your life so you don’t have to wash dishes or sweep floors or pump gas, and still pay the rent. That’s very germane to what you call a career.
• No, but a lot of roles I refuse because it’s not me. — on if he ever feels he’s been miscast.
• I’m not a campaigner or a crusader for ending racism, or anything for that matter. I believe you should live your life according to your own tenets. If there are people you don’t like, avoid them. But not liking people based on generalities is stupid.
• My aim in life, when I graduated from high school, was to get out of Mississippi. I started coming back [to Mississippi] in about 1979, because my parents moved back, which I couldn’t understand. What in the world would make you come back here? It took me about 20 years to figure that out.
• I think we all have a private bucket list. It may not be written down, but I’m constantly checking them off. I just checked off Jack Nicholson. Every day was a holiday because I’ve been praying at the temple of Jack ever since Five Easy Pieces (1970). I had a chance to ride with him on the Warner Brothers plane with Clint [Eastwood]. I got to jawing what a fan I was, and as actors will do, he expressed how he liked my work. Then we started talking about how we could make a sequel to [the 1973 Nicholson film] The Last Detail (1973). But that didn’t pan out.
• I’ve never been a mechanic. Throughout my life, what I have been is an actor, a pretender. I do have the wife and the family and the stuff like that but on the other hand, I’m – knock on wood – outstandingly healthy.
• I work about half the year. I’m just a guy who enjoys his work and enjoys working with people who enjoy their work. When that happens you get a bonding situation and if it come out with a good product, then that ties you even closer together. It’s almost like a great love affair.
• [upon getting work as an off-Broadway actor in 1967] I made $70 a week as an actor and I’d been making $60 in L.A. Making more than that as an actor was just unbelievable to me. I never went back to typing but had some real lean times in-between. But I didn’t have to go to work for anybody else. I didn’t have to wash dishes, I didn’t have to wait tables, I didn’t have to drive a cab or wash cars. I deliberately left myself nothing to fall back on. If you’ve got a cushion, where you land, you stay. You can’t climb a mountain with a net. If you’ve got the net, you’ll let go.
• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
• They say there’s no fool like an old fool. But blessings be upon my wife because I think without her, I’d be somebody’s fool by now.
• Sometimes, you want to upset an audience so you can engage them. I’ve done so-called Hollywood films, and I know that it’s all about wanting the audience to feel upbeat, give them a happy ending. But they also like complete stories. If your story’s complete it doesn’t have to have a happy ending.
• I don’t have to work. I could stop and never have to worry about paying the rent. I’m working for the joy of doing it.
• If you wake up and the snow is knee-deep outside, you are not filled with rage. It’s just something that you’ve got to cope with. If you’re living in a situation it’s the only situation that you know, and you’ve got to deal with it.
• [upon waking up face down in a door way and not knowing how he got there] I recognised that it had become a problem, so I just quit. I do have self-control. Once I realise that I’ve got to change something I just do it.
• You couldn’t possibly try to entertain all of the people who seem to be offering you entertainment. Because most of them want some compensation for it.
• The American Indians have this saying. ‘Look at the day, look at the sunlight, the grass and the trees! It’s a good day to die!’
• Ridiculous… I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. – when asked what he thinks of Black History Month on 60 Minutes (1968).
• Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. – when asked how to get rid of racism in an interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes (1968).
• You know, I was hanging out with Sidney Poitier and we were trying to decide if he or I were the better actor. We decided it was me as I convinced the world I could sing. (Freeman debuted on Broadway in 1968 in “Hello, Dolly!”)
• I’m very worried about what’s going on in the world at the moment because we have this Napoleonic president; by Napoleonic I mean he’s a man who just seems to need to search himself. It doesn’t make sense. I don’t have any love lost on Saddam Hussein. If he needs to be removed from office, fine. You have to find the right way to do it, but going to war, nah, with the people. To do what. What is the real reason? Because he’s harboring weapons of mass destruction? So it is with North Korea. Why are we acting to acquiesce to this? We do not need the Iraqi oil. We have Kuwait oil. It’s the same pool. That’s why Kuwait’s there. That’s why Kuwait was set up. You think that country could exist there without somebody backing it? We’re talking about a piece of Iraq. So, we keep this. That’s my noise. I am terribly upset about the whole thing.
• [Accepting his UCLA Tracy award]: To be included among this group of highly accomplished actors is just magical.
• Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
• I was talking to Bob Hoskins when we were making Unleashed together. We were talking about the joy of doing bad guys. And he confirmed exactly what I was thinking. With bad guys you get to let it all out. All those dark places in your psyche? You can let ’em go. When you play good guys, it’s kind of boring. It’s one note.
• I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.
• It was my idea to just do The Electric Company (1971) for a couple of years and go on. But you get trapped by that money thing. It’s golden handcuffs. It gets a lot of people, including soap opera actors and commercial actors. Then, they don’t want to see you in serious work. That was going to be me, having people come up to me saying “My kids love you!” I was there three years too long.
• I don’t know what my favorite film of mine is… But I think the most important film I was in was Glory (1989).
• Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
• When I got nominated for the Oscar [for Street Smart (1987)], it put rocket boosters in my career. Since childhood, all I wanted to do was make movies. I love the stage, but I wanted to be a movie actor.
• I saw Neil LaBute’s first movie, In the Company of Men (1997), and I thought it sucked deeply. I mean, talk about a couple of scuzzy guys. Man, they were turds. But I was intrigued by the mind that would think this up and film it. Then I saw LaBute’s second movie, Your Friends & Neighbors (1998). Not any better, but still intriguing. So then I got the script for Nurse Betty (2000), and I loved it and I went and met him. And it turns out he’s married, has these lovely kids. He’s just this big bear of a man. Cuddly, even. It didn’t take any persuading to convince me to do the film.
• When I was doing press for Deep Impact (1998), reporters would always ask me how it felt to play the first black president, and I’d tell them, “I’m not playing the first black president. I’m playing a president who happens to be black.” Or they’d ask me what sort of research I did for the role. Research? What kind of research do you need to play the president? He’s a guy. Besides, we all know what presidents are like standing up there in a press conference. Hell, you don’t have to do any research to play a president.
• [on Se7en (1995)] There’s all this loss and angst and death and sense of helplessness in that movie – if I saw it in the theater, I probably wouldn’t have liked it. I saw Fight Club (1999) and I didn’t like it much. It’s a great movie, well made, fabulous acting, but it just made me feel so bad. But David Fincher is an extraordinarily good director.
• [on working on The Shawshank Redemption (1994)] That was a strange production. There were moments of extreme tension on the set. Between the producers and actors, between the director and actors, between everybody. Just this personality stuff between different groups. Very strange. Let’s stop talking about that one.
• [on the character Hoke Colburn in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)] It’s a tricky character, right on the edge of Uncle Remus. But I knew how to play him right away. I knew when I read it. I just saw him — the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and all these Southerners would come back wiping their eyes and talking about how nostalgic it made them feel. How their grandmother had a chauffeur just like that. I was like “God damn it! I made these people nostalgic for the good ol’ days!” But, then, I had some black friends see it, and they said, ‘Oh, my grandfather was exactly like that.’ So that made me feel okay..
• [on the failure of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)] I knew that movie wasn’t going to work. I don’t think Brian De Palma had a clue. It struck me that he didn’t read the book – or that he didn’t like the book. It was the one time Tom Hanks was awfully miscast. Originally, they hired Alan Arkin to play my role. I thought that was perfect casting. But then they thought they had to be politically correct and make the judge black. So they fired Alan Arkin and hired me. Not a great way to get a role. I was kind of a suck-a– for not turning it down, but they weren’t going to give it back to Alan anyway. I never did get around to seeing the movie.
• [on the box-office failure of Amistad (1997)] People thought it was a picture about slavery. But it wasn’t about slavery at all. It was about American jurisprudence. The point of the film ultimately was that the President in not the king. But I think people were like “Jesus, not another movie about slavery!” We really do have a negative response to negative history. Which is a shame.
• [on the violence in Se7en (1995)] If you don’t show the actual violence and the audience provides their own violence, it’s much more gruesome. This is a guy who spent a lot time planning and preparing, and what was he doing? He was punishing people for their sins. He had a moral agenda. A twisted moral agenda, but do you know how many people do? People in high places.
• [on the box-office failure of The Shawshank Redemption (1994)] It took a long time for word of mouth to kick in because no one could say it. It was “The Shimshunk Reduction”, “The Hudsucker Redemption”; I mean people just couldn’t say it, which really made me angry because I knew that at the time! The movie we made was called “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. Isn’t that a great title? But they were like “That won’t fit on the marquee”. So it took a year or two for people to say it. Some people still can’t say it.
• I was in Africa when I got the call for Unforgiven (1992). Clint called my agency and made an offer for a western. I was like “He called for me?” It was jaw-dropping.
• I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure – I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.
• I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring. – on why he dislikes watching his own films.
• [on the failure of The Big Bounce (2004)] It was a wonderful experience. Steve Bing was the producer and was very generous. But the movie didn’t turn out very well. The director [George Armitage] fell ill and we shut down production for a few weeks while he recuperated. And I think when he came back he just didn’t pick up the ball and run with it the way he should have, and the movie suffered greatly for that..
• [on his hesitation to do Along Came a Spider (2001)] I had a philosophic aversion to it. I didn’t want to do the same thing twice. Then I realized that my philosophical aversion was bullshit. I realized I liked Alex Cross. And the fact that he’s black is totally incidental. That’s a rare thing for a black actor to find.
• I gravitate towards gravitas.

Morgan Freeman Important Facts

• $5,000,000
• Ranked fourth highest grossing actor of all time with his previous films grossing $4.3 billion.
• Is one of two African American actors in the top 5 highest grossing actors of all time, the other actor is Eddie Murphy.
• 20 years later, winner for Vintage Performance by an Actor in 1995, for his role as Detective Somerset in Se7en (1995) at the first Vintage Film Awards.
• Accredits his voice to studying at the LACC Theater Academy. Other alumni include Mark Hamill, Cindy Williams, Donna Reed and Rene Michelle Aranda.
• Has appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Clint Eastwood also appeared in and directed the latter two films.
• Son Alfonso Freeman (actor) was born in Los Angeles, September 13, 1959 to Morgan and Loletha Adkins (Polk). Alfonso first met his father in 1984.
• His grandfather was Morgan Herbert Freeman. His father was Morgan Porterfield Freeman. He has said that his parents forgot to give him a middle name.
• Recently became a beekeeper.
• As of 2014, has appeared in four movies that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). With the exception of The Shawshank Redemption (1994), all the other films won in the category.
• Has purchased the film rights to Orange Crushed, a mystery novel by an African-American writer, Pamela Thomas-Graham. (Thomas-Graham is also the CEO of cable news channel CNBC.) Orange Crushed features an African-American heroine, Professor Nikki Chase. [June 2004]
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 18, 2003.
• Favorite films include the original films King Kong (1933) and Moulin Rouge (1952).
• The longest he has gone without an Oscar nomination is 10 years, between The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
• Received the 2012 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2012.
• Listed his five favorite films as King Kong (1933), High Noon (1952), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Moby Dick (1956).
• Was honored with the American Film Institute’s 39th Lifetime Achievement Award on June 9, 2011.
• Resides in Charleston, Mississippi and New York City.
• Friends with Kenny Chesney.
• Though he was born in Memphis, he actually grew up in the Mississippi Delta region. He moved back to Mississippi to open a blues club and restaurant in 2001.
• Broke his arm and shoulder when he flipped his car near his home of Charleston, Mississippi on August 3, 2008.
• In addition to his role as Lucius Fox in the current Batman franchise, Freeman previously acted alongside another Batman: Michael Keaton in Clean and Sober (1988).
• Has said that watching Gary Cooper’s films in his youth inspired him to become an actor.
• Works closely with screenwriter Grant Boucher.
• Attended the 2004 and 2005 Dubai International Film Festival in the United Arab Emirates.
• Narrated two Academy Award-winning feature-length documentaries: The Long Way Home (1997) and March of the Penguins (2005).
• Three films of his are on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) at #77, Glory (1989) at #31 and The Shawshank Redemption (1994) at #23.
• In January 2001, opened Madidi, a fine-dining restaurant in Clarksdale, MS, with local attorney and businessman, Bill Lucket. They also co-own Ground Zero Blues Club, a blues bar and grill that opened in May 2001.
• His performance as Fast Black in Street Smart (1987) is ranked #77 on Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Is the only African-American actor to appear in three Best Picture Oscar Winners: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
• Has played three men who teach someone to box in three separate films. First, he played Geel Piet in The Power of One (1992), he then played Alex Cross in Kiss the Girls (1997) where, at the beginning of the film, he was teaching a group of young boys how to box, and he also played Eddie “Scrap Iron” Dupree in Million Dollar Baby (2004).
• Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1994.
• Keeps his Oscar statuette inside a cabinet which resides in his office. The cabinet was built by a good friend of his in 1998 especially for the Oscar that his friend predicted he would win. It even came with a plaque that read: “No Parking. Reserved for Oscar.”
• Most of the characters he has played are not written specifically for an African-American actor.
• Received a trademark on his name from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on September 19, 2006.
• In May 2005, he won the right to the Internet domain name www.morganfreeman.com from the company Mighty LLC, of Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis in a UN panel.
• Speaks French fluently. He gave an introductory speech in French to the crowd of extras gathered in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to portray the Baltimore Super Bowl audience in The Sum of All Fears (2002).
• Arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1959 and his first job was as a clerk typist.
• Said in an issue of Life magazine (February 2005) that he can be seen as an extra in The Pawnbroker (1964).
• Was nominated for Broadway’s 1978 Tony Award as Best Actor (Feature Role – Play) for “The Mighty Gents”.
• Is often called the greatest living actor in film, a title he humbly waves off and says he is just “lucky”.
• During an interview with Charlie Rose regarding the 10th year anniversary of The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Freeman said he regarded that film, Glory (1989), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), and Unforgiven (1992) as the highlights of his career.
• Owns a boat which is berthed in the Caribbean. His busy schedule, however, only allows him to go sailing on it once a year.
• Has appeared in two films opposite a main character named Jack Ryan: The Sum of All Fears (2002) and The Big Bounce (2004).
• Has starred in two movies based on Stephen King books: Dreamcatcher (2003) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
• Has his own production company, Revelation Entertainment.
• Broadway debut in the musical “Hello, Dolly!” with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway.
• Recently earned a Private Pilot license.
• Has recorded a new radio public service announcement about the national parks.
• Worked as a mechanic in the United States Air Force.
• Considered joining the Air Force to become a fighter pilot but opted to stay with acting instead.
• Has reprised the same character three times. He played Dr. Alex Cross in Kiss the Girls (1997) and then reprised the role in Along Came a Spider (2001). He also played God in Bruce Almighty (2003) and then reprised that role in Evan Almighty (2007). Finally, he played Lucius Fox in both Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008).
• He was (along with director/actress Billie Allen, director/playwright Garland Thompson, and journalist Clayton Riley’) a founding member of the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, named after noted Black actor Frank Silvera.
• Received the “Hollywood Outstanding Achievement in Acting” Award on August 7, 2000.
• Father of Morgana Freeman with Jeanette Adair Bradshaw. He also adopted his first wife’s daughter, Deena.
• Father of Alfonso Freeman from his relationship with Loletha Adkins and Saifoulaye Freeman (born 1960) from another previous relationship.
• Village Voice Obie for Driving Miss Daisy (1989). [1990]
• Village Voice Obie for Great Performances: The Gospel at Colonus (1985). [1986]
• Village Voice Obie for Coriolanus (1979) and “Mother Courage”. [1980]
• Ranked #31 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]

Morgan Freeman Filmography

Morgan Freeman Awards