morgan freeman is an american actor director and narrator he has appeared in a range of
film genres portraying character roles and is particularly known for his distinctive deep voice
freeman is the recipient of various accolades including an academy award a golden globe award
and a screen actors guild award morgan freeman has an estimated net worth of 250 million us dollars
morgan freeman's early life morgan freeman was born on june 1st 1937 in memphis tennessee
son of mamie edna a teacher born in 1912 and died in 2000 and morgan porterfield freeman a
barber born on july 6 1915 and died of cirrhosis on april 27 1961. he has three older siblings
shortly after he was born his parents relocated to chicago to find work and morgan stayed with his
maternal grandmother in charleston mississippi his grandmother died when he was six and he moved to
chicago to be with his mother who at that point had separated from his father they eventually
moved back to tennessee 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 at age 12 he won a statewide drama competition
and while still in high school he performed in a radio show based in nashville tennessee
he graduated from broad street high school in 1955 and went on to enlist in the united states air
force and served as an automatic tracking radar repairman rising to the rank of airman first class
once he moved to los angeles after his time in the military he started taking acting lessons at the
pasadena playhouse to make ends meet morgan worked as a transcript clerk at los angeles city college
at the same time he was often traveling around new york city and to san francisco working as a dancer
and is a member of a music theater group respectively morgan freeman's personal life
freeman was married to jeanette adair bradshaw from october 22nd 1967 until november 18 1979
and subsequently married myrna colley lee on june 16th 1984. the couple separated in december
2007 and divorced on september 15 2010. freeman has four children alfonso dina morgana and saya
fulia freeman and khalid lee adopted freeman's stepdaughter from his first marriage adena hines
and raised her together on august 16 2015 33 year old heinz was murdered in new york city
freeman was active in relief efforts for hurricane katrina victims and he formed the grenada relief
fund to aid victims of hurricane ivan in march 2019 morgan revealed that he had converted his 124
acre farm in mississippi into a bee sanctuary freeman resides in charleston mississippi and
maintains a home in new york city morgan freeman's career in the mid-1960s freeman first appeared in
an off-broadway production of a play titled the [ __ ] lovers and then debuting on broadway in
1968's all-black version of hello dolly which also starred pearl bailey and cab callaway
his first film appearance was in who says i can't ride a rainbow in 1971. he became a familiar face
in america through both work on the soap opera another world and appearances on the electric
company at pbs kids show he continued his theater work and in 1980 received the obi award for
his starring role in coriolanus he nabbed his second obi in 1984 for the gospel at columbus
and in 1989 was given the award again for his lead role in driving miss daisy later adapted for the
screen which he starred in the late 80s and early 90s was an upward climb for freeman who began
playing prominent roles in big budget films he was cast in the 1987 film street smart as fast black
and the role earned him an oscar nomination for best supporting actor in 1994 he won the role of
red in the shawshank redemption which catapulted him into a-list fame he went on to star in several
other big budget films like 7 robin hood prince of thieves deep impact and unforgiven 2005 was
a big year for freeman after three previous nominations morgan finally won the best supporting
actor oscar for his work in clint eastwood's million-dollar baby at the 77th academy awards
in 2005 he was chosen to play the role of god in the blockbuster film bruce almighty and later the
sequel evan almighty he appeared in christopher nolan's dark knight trilogy batman begins in 2005
as well he later went on to reprise his role in the two sequels after starring in 2007's the
bucket list freeman made a big return to the stage and co-starred with peter gallagher and francis
mcdormand in the broadway hit the country girl he teamed up with director clint eastwood in 2009 to
play nelson mandela in invictus which earned him an academy award nomination for best actor in 2013
he appeared in olympus's fallen and in 2016 the sequel london has fallen and oblivion in 1993
morgan made his debut as a director with paramount pictures bofa to date the only other directing
endeavor he has undertaken was for three episodes of madame secretary known for his distinctive
booming voice morgan is frequently picked for narration work in 2005 he narrated war of the
worlds and the documentary march of the penguins and later did voice work for 2014's lego movie
he replaced walter cronkite as the voice intro to the cbs evening news in 2010 he's also the host
and narrator for through the wormhole a discovery channel physics show freeman did the narration for
many popular visa commercials until 2018 morgan freeman's business ventures in 1997 freeman and
business partner lori mccreary founded revelations entertainment a film production company they also
founded clickstar in 2006 a film download company with investments from the intel corporation
clickstar ceased operations in 2008. freeman owns and operates ground zero a blues club in
clarksdale mississippi and is a former co-owner of media a fine dining restaurant in the same city
morgan freeman's car collection morgan enjoys driving some of his cars from his car collection
the collection has a gmc denali worth forty nine thousand dollars which is an eight cylinder suv
he has a toyota tundra pickup truck that he paid around forty seven thousand dollars for
and a chevrolet silverado he got for thirty five thousand dollars he also has a red 1966
ford mustang gt350 with white racing stripes in the collection that's worth a hundred and forty
thousand dollars he bought an electric motor tesla model x for about seventy nine thousand dollars
the crown jewel of the car collection though is a lamborghini aventador worth about four hundred
thousand dollars morgan freeman's private jets freeman has a private pilot's license which he
got when he was 65. he owns or has owned three private planes that he became certified to fly
which include a cessna citation 501 private jet a cessna 414 twin engine prop and an emivest sj30
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