Morgan Freeman
Biography
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angele…
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Filmography
Acting (265)
Movies (198)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025as Thaddeus Bradley
The Power of Chi
2025as (narrator)
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025as Self
How to Rob a Bank
2024as Azeem (archive footage)
Gunner
2024as Kendrick Ryker
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024as Dr. Cole
Odysseus Returns
2024as Narrator
From the Balkans
2024as (narrator)
57 Seconds
2023as Anton Burrell
The Ritual Killer
2023as Dr. Mackles
A Good Person
2023as Daniel
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023as Self
Power of Chi
2022as Narrator (voice)
Betty White: A Celebration
2022as Self
Paradise Highway
2022as Gerick
Sidney
2022as Self
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022as Self (archive footage)
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022as Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
2021as Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021as Senior
Vanquish
2021as Damon
Coming 2 America
2021as Morgan Freeman
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021as Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021as Self
Into Nature's Wild
2020as Narrator (voice)
The Comeback Trail
2020as Reggie Fontaine
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020as Narrator (voice)
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020as Self
Angel Has Fallen
2019as Alan Trumbull
Brian Banks
2019as Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
The Poison Rose
2019as Doc
Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United
2019as Self
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018as Drosselmeyer
Die Clint Eastwood Story
2018as Self
America's Musical Journey
2018as Narrator (voice)
Going in Style
2017as Willie Davis
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017as Narrator (English voice)
Just Getting Started
2017as Duke
The Words That Built America
2017as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017as Self
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017as Self
London Has Fallen
2016as Alan Trumbull
Now You See Me 2
2016as Thaddeus Bradley
The C Word
2016as Narrator (voice)
Ben-Hur
2016as Sheik Ilderim
Ted 2
2015as Patrick Meighan
Last Knights
2015as Bartok
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
2015as Narrator (voice)
Momentum
2015as Senator
Lucy
2014as Professor Norman
The Lego Movie
2014as Vitruvius (voice)
Transcendence
2014as Joseph Tagger
Wish Wizard
2014as Maxwell Omni
Dolphin Tale 2
2014as Dr. Cameron McCarthy
5 Flights Up
2014as Alex Carver
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
2014as Narrator (voice)
We the People
2014as Narrator (voice)
Now You See Me
2013as Thaddeus Bradley
Oblivion
2013as Beech
Olympus Has Fallen
2013as Alan Trumbull
JFK: A President Betrayed
2013as Narrator (voice)
Last Vegas
2013as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013as Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013as Self
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
2013as Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
2012as Fox
The Magic of Belle Isle
2012as Monte Wildhorn
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012as Narrator (voice)
Ending the Knight
2012as Self
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
2012as Narratore
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012as Self
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
2012as Self
Conan the Barbarian
2011as Narrator (voice)
Dolphin Tale
2011as Dr. McCarthy
Breaking the Taboo
2011as Narrator (voice)
Born to Be Wild
2011as Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood's West
2011as Self
RED
2010as Joe Matheson
The 16th Man
2010as Narrator (voice)
The Eastwood Factor
2010as Self - Narrator (voice)
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
2010as Narrator (voice)
Invictus
2009as Nelson Mandela
Thick as Thieves
2009as Keith Ripley
The Maiden Heist
2009as Charles Peterson
The People Speak
2009as Self
Prom Night in Mississippi
2009as Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight
2008as Lucius Fox
Wanted
2008as Sloan
A Raisin in the Sun
2008as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Where the Water Meets the Sky
2008
Evan Almighty
2007as God
The Bucket List
2007as Carter Chambers
Gone Baby Gone
2007as Jack Doyle
Feast of Love
2007as Harry Stevenson
All About Us
2007as Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007as Self
Lucky Number Slevin
2006as The Boss
The Contract
2006as Frank Carden
10 Items or Less
2006as 'Him'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006as Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
Greasy Rider
2006
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006as Self
Batman Begins
2005as Lucius Fox
War of the Worlds
2005as Narrator (voice)
Unleashed
2005as Sam
Edison
2005as Ashford
March of the Penguins
2005as Narrator
An Unfinished Life
2005as Mitch Bradley
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005as Self (archive footage)
Blues Divas
2005as Self
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005as Neil Armstrong (voice)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005as Self
Born to Fight
2005as Self
James Lipton Takes on Three
2005as Self
Million Dollar Baby
2004as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
The Big Bounce
2004as Walter Crewes
The Hunting of the President
2004as Narrator (voice)
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004as Self
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
2004
Bruce Almighty
2003as God
Dreamcatcher
2003as Col. Abraham Curtis
Levity
2003as Miles Evans
Guilty by Association
2003as Lt. Redding
Declaration of Independence
2003as Self
The Sum of All Fears
2002as DCI William Cabot
High Crimes
2002as Charlie Grimes
Partners of the Heart
2002as Narrator (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002as Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002as Self
Along Came a Spider
2001as Alex Cross
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001as Self
Under Suspicion
2000as Captain Victor Benezet
Nurse Betty
2000as Charlie
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000as Narrator (voice)
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999as Self
Hard Rain
1998as Jim
Deep Impact
1998as President Tom Beck
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998as Self
Kiss the Girls
1997as Det. Alex Cross
Amistad
1997as Theodore Joadson
The Long Way Home
1997as Narrator (voice)
The Making of Se7en
1997as Self
Chain Reaction
1996as Paul Shannon
Moll Flanders
1996as Hibble
Cosmic Voyage
1996as Narrator (voice)
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996as Edward G. Robinson
Inside the White House
1996as Narrator (voice)
Se7en
1995as Somerset
Outbreak
1995as General Billy Ford
The Shawshank Redemption
1994as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Unforgiven
1992as Ned Logan
The Power of One
1992as Geel Piet
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992as Self
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991as Azeem
The True Story of Glory Continues
1991as Narrator (voice)
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991as Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991as Self
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990as Judge Leonard White
The Earth Day Special
1990as Walter Samson
Night of 100 Stars III
1990as Self
Follow the Drinking Gourd
1990as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
1990as Narrator (voice)
Glory
1989as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Driving Miss Daisy
1989as Hoke Colburn
Lean On Me
1989as Principal Joe Clark
Johnny Handsome
1989as Lt. A.Z. Drones
Clean and Sober
1988as Craig
Clinton and Nadine
1988as Dorsey Pratt
Street Smart
1987as Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.
Fight for Life
1987as Dr. Sherard
Resting Place
1986as Luther Johnson
Marie: A True Story
1985as Charles Traughber
That Was Then... This Is Now
1985as Charlie Woods
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985as Warden Pratt
The Gospel at Colonus
1985as Messenger
Teachers
1984as Lewis
Harry & Son
1984as Siemanowski
Eyewitness
1981as Lieutenant Black
The Marva Collins Story
1981as Clarence Collins
Death of a Prophet
1981as Malcolm X
Attica
1980as Hap Richards
Brubaker
1980as Walter
Hollow Image
1979as Sweet Talk
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978as Uncle Hammer
Out to Lunch
1974as Self / Croupier
Energy Crisis
1974as Self
Blade
1973as Chris
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971as Afro
Caught in the Middle
1970
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968as Grand Central Commuter
A Man Called Adam
1966as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pawnbroker
1965as Man on Street (Uncredited)
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
as Narrator (voice)
Hate to See You Go
as Sonny Bell
CLINT
as Narrator (voice)
Sniff
as Joe Mulwray
The Little Bedroom
Television (67)
The Dinosaurs
2026as Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Revolution
2025as (voice)
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025as Self
Lioness
2023as Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
Lioness
2023as Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
Life on Our Planet
2023as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Muppets Mayhem
2023as Morgan Freeman
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022as Self
Our Universe
2022as Self - Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021as Self
Solos
2021as Narrator (voice)
Solos
2021as Stuart
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
2021as Self - Host
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019as Morgan Freeman (voice)
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
2017as Self - Host
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017as Self
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
2016as Self - Host
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014as Self
Madam Secretary
2014as Chief Justice Frawley
Curiosity
2011as Self - Narrator (voice)
Through the Wormhole
2010as Self - Host
30 for 30
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009as Self
Live from Studio Five
2009as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005as Self
The Reichen Show
2005as Self - Guest
Slavery and the Making of America
2005as Self - Narrator (voice)
America Beyond the Color Line
2004as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003as Self
Mark Twain Prize
1999as Self
Parkinson
1998as Self
The View
1997as Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997
The Daily Show
1996as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
HBO First Look
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992as Narrator (voice)
Pebble Mill
1991as Self
The Civil War
1990as Frederick Douglass
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Experience
1988as Narrator (voice)
American Masters
1986as Narrator (voice)
The Twilight Zone
1985as Tony (segment "Dealer's Choice")
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985as Ben Shelter
Goldene Kamera
1984as Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979as Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978as Self
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978as Uncle Hammer
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Spidey Super Stories
1974as Easy Reader
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973as Self
Great Performances
1971as Messenger
The Electric Company
1971as Count Dracula
60 Minutes
1968as Self
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Performer
The Oscars
1953as Self - Presenter
Today
1952as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Clarence
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self
The Promised Land
as Narrator (voice)
Crew (22)
Movies (17)
In Our Blood
2025Executive Producer
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
2023Executive Producer
Ogun Óla: War is Coming
2022Producer
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
2021Executive Producer
5 Flights Up
2014Producer
The 16th Man
2010Producer
Invictus
2009Executive Producer
Levity
2003Executive Producer
Along Came a Spider
2001Executive Producer
Under Suspicion
2000Executive Producer
Mutiny
1999Executive Producer
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998Thanks
Bopha!
1993Director
Hate to See You Go
Producer
Rendezvous with Rama
Producer
Last Meals
Producer
Break Out
Executive Producer
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