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Early Life and Education: Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an acclaimed American actor and film narrator. He has won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby and has received Oscar nominations for his roles in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, and Invictus. Freeman is known for his deep voice and has served as the narrator for many films and television shows. He rose to fame as part of the cast of the 1970s children's program The Electric Company.

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Early Life and Education: Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an acclaimed American actor and film narrator. He has won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby and has received Oscar nominations for his roles in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, and Invictus. Freeman is known for his deep voice and has served as the narrator for many films and television shows. He rose to fame as part of the cast of the 1970s children's program The Electric Company.

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Morgan Freeman[2] (born June 1, 1937)[3] is an American actor and film narrator.

Freeman won
an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with Million Dollar Baby (2004) and has
received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss
Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Invictus (2009). He has also won a Golden
Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Glory (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves (1991), Seven (1995), Deep Impact (1998), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Bruce
Almighty (2003), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), Wanted (2008), Red (2010), Now You See
Me (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), and Lucy (2014). He rose to fame as part of the cast of the
1970s children's program The Electric Company. Noted for his deep voice,[4] Freeman has served as
a narrator, commentator, and voice actor for numerous programs, series and television shows.[5]

Contents

 1Early life and education


 2Career
o 2.1Acting career
o 2.2Other work
 3Personal life
o 3.1Beekeeping
o 3.2Flying
o 3.3Health
o 3.4Properties
o 3.5Religious views
o 3.6Sexual harassment allegations
 4Activism
o 4.1Charitable work
o 4.2Comments on racism
o 4.3Politics
 5Filmography
 6Awards and honors
 7See also
 8References
 9External links

Early life and education


Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the son of Mayme Edna
(née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher,[6] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27,
1961),[2][7] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961.[7] He has three older siblings. According to a DNA
analysis, some of his ancestors were from Niger.[8] In 2008, a DNA test suggested that among all of
his African ancestors, a little over one-quarter came from the area that stretches from present-
day Senegal to Liberia and three-quarters came from the Congo-Angola region.[9] Freeman was sent
as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi.[10][11][12] He moved frequently during
his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois.[12] When
Freeman was 16 years old, he almost died of pneumonia.[13]
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.[14] 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, 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[15] and served as an Automatic
Tracking Radar Repairman, rising to the rank of Airman 1st Class.[16]
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.[15]

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