Who is Morgan Freeman ?

In 2008, Freeman became a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, earning his medal alongside Barbra Streisand, George Jones, choreographer Twyla Tharp and the members of The Who.

“I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring,” he once told an interviewer. Lucky for the rest of us, then, he’s in the minority on that opinion.

Morgan Freeman is the first American to record a par on the “Extreme 19th” hole at Legend Golf & Safari Resort in Limpopo, South Africa. It’s the highest and longest par 3 hole in the world.

Morgan Freeman was presented with the Chaplin Award in 2016, at 78 years old, to applaud his enduring commitment to cinema. You can check out the video below.

Freeman takes a positive approach to the idea that he has spent a lot of his career typecast as good guys and father figures.

A man of honor and loyalty, Morgan Freeman was put in jail while serving in the Air Force because he insisted on sticking with his friend. “Have you ever been in jail? I have. I was a kid.

I was in the Air Force and I’d gone with a friend of mine to Los Angeles. When we left the base, he left his Class-A pass sitting on the table. We were hitchhiking because he was out of money. I had a little money, but I didn’t want to take the bus and leave him. The police stopped us on the freeway.

He asked both of us for ID and I had mine and my friend didn’t have his. The cop said, ‘Well, we’re gonna have to call the shore patrol because we don’t know if you’re AWOL.’ He told me, ‘You got money–you take a bus.’ I said, ‘I’m with him.’ So I went to jail for four days.

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, and narrator.

Morgan Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus, and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby.

Morgan Freeman has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Along Came a Spider, The Dark Knight Trilogy, March of the Penguins, The Lego Movie, and Lucy.

Morgan Freeman is known for his distinctively smooth, deep voic

Morgan Freeman got his first break as part of the cast of The Electric Company.

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 1, 1937

Morgan Freeman is the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere; 1912-2000), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber who died on April 27, 1961, from cirrhosis.

Morgan Freeman has three older siblings.

According to a DNA analysis, some of his ancestors were from Niger

Morgan Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi.

Morgan Freeman moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois.

Morgan Freeman made his acting debut at age nine, playing the lead role in a school play.

Morgan Freeman then attended Broad Street High School, a building which serves today as Threadgill Elementary School, in Greenwood, Mississippi

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[11] and served as an Automatic Tracking Radar Repairman, rising to the rank of Airman 1st Class.

After four years in the military, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he 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.

During this period, Freeman also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring musical theater group.