Morgan Freeman biography
Morgan Freeman is an American actor and producer (born 1937), born on 1 June 1937 in Memphis.
Morgan Freeman's screen career began in 1964 with The Pawnbroker, playing Man on Street.
Morgan Freeman has appeared in 155 films and 18 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are The Dinosaurs (2026), Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025), The Power of Chi (2025).
Honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Kennedy Center Honors and AFI Life Achievement Award.
Coming up next: Rode to Ruin (2027).
- Born
- 1 June 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Memphis
- Work
- Film producer, Television actor, Film director, Aircraft pilot, Character actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1964 to present
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Kennedy Center Honors
- AFI Life Achievement Award
- Golden Globes
- Silver Bear
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Morgan Freeman filmography
156 films and 18 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Rode to Ruin | Joseph Mulberry | Completed | |
| 2026 | The Dinosaurs | Documentary | ||
| 2025 | Now You See Me: Now You Don't | Thaddeus Bradley | ||
| 2025 | The Power of Chi | Documentary | ||
| 2024 | Gunner | Kendrick Ryker | ||
| 2024 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Dr. Cole | ||
| 2024 | In Our Blood | , N/a | Executive producer only | |
| 2023 | A Good Person | Daniel | ||
| 2023 | The Ritual Killer | Dr. Mackles | ||
| 2023 | Life on Our Planet | Documentary | ||
| 2023 | 57 Seconds | Anton Burrell | ||
| 2023 | 100 Years of Warner Bros | Television documentary | ||
| 2022 | Paradise Highway | Gerick | ||
| 2022 | Betty White: A Celebration | English | ||
| 2022 | The Minute You Wake Up Dead | Sheriff Thurmond Fowler | ||
| 2022 | Our Universe | Documentary | ||
| 2021 | Vanquish | Damon | ||
| 2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | Michael Bryce Sr./Senior | ||
| 2021 | Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman | TV documentary | ||
| 2020 | The Comeback Trail | Reggie Fontaine | ||
| 2020 | Savage Mode II | Album (& album trailer) | ||
| 2019 | The Poison Rose | Doc | ||
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | President Allan Trumbull | ||
| 2019 | The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain | , N/a | Executive producer only | |
| 2019 | Princess of the Row | , N/a | Executive producer only |
Show all 156 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Drosselmeyer | ||
| 2018 | Alpha | Narrative Feature | ||
| 2018 | Brian Banks | Jerome Johnson | Uncredited | |
| 2017 | Just Getting Started | Duke Diver | ||
| 2017 | Going in Style | Willie | ||
| 2017 | The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium | Stand-up special | ||
| 2017 | Deep in the Heart of Texas: Dave Chappelle Live at Austin City Limits | Stand-up special | ||
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Sheikh Ilderim | ||
| 2016 | The Story of God with Morgan Freeman | TV series (15 episodes) | ||
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Vice President Allan Trumbull | ||
| 2016 | Now You See Me 2 | Thaddeus Bradley | ||
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Patrick Meighan | ||
| 2015 | Momentum | Senator | ||
| 2015 | Last Knights | Bartok | ||
| 2014 | Lennon or McCartney | English | ||
| 2014 | Lucy | Professor Norman | ||
| 2014 | Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | Documentary | ||
| 2014 | Transcendence | Joseph Tagger | ||
| 2014 | Dolphin Tale 2 | Dr. McCarthy | ||
| 2014 | 5 Flights Up | Alex | Also executive producer | |
| 2014 | The Mona Lisa Myth | Documentary | ||
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Vitruvius | Voice | |
| 2013 | Last Vegas | Archie | ||
| 2013 | Now You See Me | Thaddeus Bradley | ||
| 2013 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley | German | ||
| 2013 | Oblivion | Beech | ||
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Allan Trumbull, Speaker of the House | ||
| 2013 | JFK: A President Betrayed | Documentary | ||
| 2012 | Casting By | English | ||
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Lucius Fox | ||
| 2012 | The Magic of Belle Isle | Monte Wildhorn | ||
| 2011 | Dolphin Tale | Dr. McCarthy | ||
| 2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Narrative Feature | ||
| 2011 | Born to Be Wild | Documentary | ||
| 2011 | Curiosity | Episode: "Is There a Parallel Universe?" | ||
| 2011 | Breaking the Taboo | Documentary | ||
| 2011 | 8 | David Boies | ||
| 2010 | RED | Joe Matheson | ||
| 2010 | Through the Wormhole | TV series (62 episodes) | ||
| 2009 | Invictus | Nelson Mandela | Also executive producer | |
| 2009 | Thick as Thieves | Keith Ripley | Also known as The Code | |
| 2009 | The People Speak | English | ||
| 2009 | The Maiden Heist | Charles Peterson | ||
| 2009 | Wanted: Weapons of Fate | Sloan | ||
| 2009 | Prom Night in Mississippi | Documentary | ||
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Lucius Fox | ||
| 2008 | Wanted | Sloan | ||
| 2008 | The Love Guru | Narrative Feature | ||
| 2008 | The Country Girl | Frank Elgin | ||
| 2008 | A New Birth of Freedom | Documentary | ||
| 2007 | Feast of Love | Harry Stevenson | ||
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | God | ||
| 2007 | The Bucket List | Carter Chambers | ||
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Jack Doyle | ||
| 2006 | 10 Items or Less | English | ||
| 2006 | The Contract | Frank Carden | ||
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | The Boss | ||
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | Narrative Feature | ||
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Lucius Fox | ||
| 2005 | Edison | Ashford | ||
| 2005 | Unleashed | Sam | ||
| 2005 | Blues Divas | English | ||
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Mitch | ||
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | Documentary | ||
| 2005 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D | Neil Armstrong | Documentary | |
| 2004 | The Big Bounce | Walter Crewes | ||
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris | ||
| 2004 | The Hunting of the President | Documentary | ||
| 2004 | Slavery and the Making of America | Documentary | ||
| 2004 | A Remarkable Promise | Short film | ||
| 2003 | Guilty by Association | Lt. Redding | ||
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | God | ||
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Col. Abraham Curtis | ||
| 2003 | Levity | Pastor Miles Evans | Also executive producer | |
| 2003 | A Tale of Two Schools | Documentary | ||
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | DCI William Cabot | ||
| 2002 | High Crimes | Charlie Grimes | ||
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Alex Cross | Also executive producer | |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Victor Benezet | Also executive producer | |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Charlie | ||
| 1998 | Deep Impact | President Beck | ||
| 1998 | Hard Rain | Jim | ||
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Alex Cross | ||
| 1997 | The Long Way Home | Documentary | ||
| 1997 | Amistad | Theodore Joadson | ||
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Hibble | ||
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Paul Shannon | ||
| 1996 | Cosmic Voyage | Documentary | ||
| 1995 | Seven | Detective Lieutenant William Somerset | ||
| 1995 | Outbreak | General Billy Ford | ||
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator | ||
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | English | ||
| 1994 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | Segment: "Amos, the Story of an Old Dog and His Couch" | ||
| 1993 | Bopha! | , N/a | Director only | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Ned Logan | ||
| 1992 | The Power of One | Geel Piet | ||
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir | ||
| 1990 | The Civil War | Frederick Douglass | Voice | |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Judge White | ||
| 1990 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | ||
| 1989 | Glory | John Rawlins | ||
| 1989 | Lean on Me | Joe Louis Clark | ||
| 1989 | Johnny Handsome | Lt. Drones | ||
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn | ||
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Craig | ||
| 1988 | The Gospel at Colonus | Messenger | ||
| 1987 | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Coleburn | ||
| 1987 | Street Smart | Fast Black | ||
| 1985 | That Was Then... This Is Now | Charlie | ||
| 1985 | Marie | Charles Traughber | ||
| 1984 | Teachers | Alan Lewis | ||
| 1984 | Harry & Son | Siemanowski | ||
| 1984 | Medea and the Doll | Dr. Winston Crews | ||
| 1983 | Buck | Fred Milly | ||
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Lieutenant Black | ||
| 1980 | Brubaker | Walter | ||
| 1980 | Mother Courage and Her Children | Chaplain | ||
| 1979 | Julius Caesar | Casca | ||
| 1979 | Coriolanus | Caius Martius / Coriolanus | ||
| 1978 | White Pelicans | Winston | ||
| 1978 | The Mighty Gents | Zeke | ||
| 1973 | Blade | Chris | ||
| 1971 | Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! | Afro | ||
| 1970 | Purlie | Purlie | ||
| 1969 | The Dozens | Kgaravu | ||
| 1969 | Exhibition | David | ||
| 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Grand Central Commuter | Uncredited | |
| 1967 | The Niggerlovers | Creampuff | ||
| 1967 | Hello, Dolly! | Rudolph | ||
| 1966 | A Man Called Adam | Party guest | Uncredited | |
| 1964 | The Pawnbroker | Man on Street | Uncredited |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Special Ops: Lioness | Edwin Mullins | Main role | |
| 2021 | Solos | Stuart | 1 episode | |
| 2014 | Madam Secretary | Chief Justice Frawley | 3 episodes; also executive producer | |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Walter Samson | TV special | |
| 1988 | Clinton and Nadine | Dorsey Pratt | Television film | |
| 1987 | Fight For Life | Dr. Sherard | Television film | |
| 1986 | Resting Place | Luther Johnson | Television film | |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Ben Shelter | Miniseries | |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Tony | Episode: "Dealer's Choice" | |
| 1985 | The Execution of Raymond Graham | Warden Pratt | TV Movie | |
| 1983 | Another World | Dr. Roy Bingham | 5 episodes | |
| 1981 | Death of a Prophet | Malcolm X | Television film | |
| 1981 | The Marva Collins Story | Clarence Collins | Television film | |
| 1981 | Ryan's Hope | Cicero Murphy | 2 episodes | |
| 1980 | Attica | Hap Richards | Television film | |
| 1979 | Hollow Image | Ralph Simmons "Sweet Talk" | Television film | |
| 1978 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Uncle Hammer Logan | Television film | |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Easy Reader / Mel Mounds / Dracula / Vincent the Vegetable Vampire / Mark | Main role |