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= = =Morgan Freeman =

Early Life
Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the youngest of five children. While growing up he lived in both Chicago and many places in Mississippi in low-income homes. When he was a kid he spent a lot of time trying to see movies. When he was twelve and in junior high it was by chance that he came upon acting. For pulling a chair out from under a girl he liked he was punished by participating in the school play. He proved to have a natural stage talent.

Freeman loved acting but had declined a partial scholarship for drama, he instead joined the United states Air Force as a fighter pilot after graduating high school in 1955. The Air Force was not what he expected and left it in 1959. He then moved to Hollywood to to see if he could try and be an actor. He took many acting classes but was finding it hard to find work so he then moved to New York City.

In 1967 he married a woman named Jeanette Adair Bradshaw. They eventually got divorced in 1979 and he married Myrna Colley-Lee. Then they got divorced in 2007, but it was made official in 2010. 1967 was also the same year where he had his big break in the African-American Broadway production of // Hello, Dolly!. //

//Hello, Dolly!// //Bruce Almighty//

Acting Career
His first major production was //Hello, Dolly!,// around the same he was also in an off-Broadway play called //The Nigger Lovers//. In the 1970s he continued to work on many theater productions and won many awards and was even nominated for a Tony Award for the play //The Mighty Gents// in 1978.

The first movie that Freeman was in was called //The Pawnbroker// which came out in 1964, his part was Man on Street, he was uncredited for it. The first movie that he was credited in was called //Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!//, which came out in 1971, his role was Afro. He also appeared on many TV shows as characters such as, Easy Reader, Mel Mounds, and Count Dracula. One of the other movies he did was //Blade// in 1973 where he had a small role. The first movie he did where he received an Oscar nomination was called //Street Smart//, which came out in 1987, his role was Fast Black. He then received a second Oscar nomination for the movie //Driving Miss Daisy// where he played Hoke Colburn. In 2004 he won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for //Million Dollar// //Baby//. He has continued to be in many movies and play many roles. One of his most famous movies was //The Shawshank Redemption,// where he played Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding. He has recently been in the new Batman trilogy, which was a huge success. One thing that should have affected his acting career but didn't was when he got in a car accident in 2008; he was injured very badly. Though he still continued doing movies even though he was in a bad car crash. He recovered but is still injured from it. It does not take away from his quality of acting though.

Morgan Freeman has done so many performances on the stage and in front of a camera that I wish that I could name them all, but there are just too many to name. Some of his most famous works that have not already been mentioned are: //Bruce Almighty//, Invictus, //The Bucket List, Se7en, Unforgiven, Glory, Chain Reaction, Unleashed, Red, Dolphin Tale,// and //Oblivion//. Those movies are just a small list of the many things he has done over the years. //The Shawshank Redemption// // Batman Begins //

//Street Smart//



Analysis
Morgan Freeman is a well known actor and a great example of what makes a great actor. He has a presence which demands a persons attention when he is on the screen or stage. His voice is one anyone could recognize. But what makes him great is that he knows what he wants to do. He left the Air Force to become an actor. Even after that horrible car crash he still carried on acting. He never did just one kind of movie. He has done kids movies and very intense movies. He has very strong beliefs in his everyday life and his working life. He is a person that someone is able to look up to not just as an actor but a person. I believe that he is an amazing a ctor but if he was a horrible person that would take aways from that. But he is not, he is a good man. He is always doing something with his career and doing something new.

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Called: Top 10 Morgan Freeman Performances 10 Minutes long

Contains clips from... //Unforgiven// (1992) Ned Logan //Invictus// (2009) Nelson Mandela //Lean on Me// (1989) Joe Louis Clark //Street Smart// (1987) Fast Black Batman "Trilogy" (2005-2012) Lucius Fox //Glory// (1989) Sergeant Major John Rawlins //MIllion Dollar Baby// (2004) Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris //Driving MIss Daisy// (1989) Hoke Colburn //Se7en// (1995) Detective Lt. William Somerset //The Shawshank Redemption// (1994) Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

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