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Won 1 Oscar. See more awards ». Known For. Se7en Somerset. Invictus Nelson Mandela. Driving Miss Daisy Hoke Colburn. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actor credits. A Good Person filming. Paradise Highway post-production. The Round Toes, of the High Shoes Morgan Freeman. Show all 7 episodes. Morgan Freeman voice. Chief Justice Wilbourne uncredited. Chief Justice Frawley uncredited.
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Detective Michaels. Cicero Murphy. Show all episodes. Grand Central Commuter uncredited. It wasn't an easy life. He took acting classes and struggled to find work. In the early s, he moved again, this time to New York City, where more petty day jobs and nighttime auditions followed.
In , the same year he married Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, Freeman's big career break came when he landed a part in an all African American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! Some national exposure followed in when he started appearing regularly on The Electric Company , a public television-produced children's TV show that focused on teaching kids how to read.
But television proved to be a grueling and demanding life for Freeman. Despite some stage work, including a Tony-nominated performance in The Mighty Gents in the late s, Freeman couldn't seem to break into movies like he wanted. When The Electric Company was canceled in , Freeman saw himself staring at a career that was far from grounded.
His personal life was hurting, too. Long before the show ended, Freeman found that his marriage had started to fall apart, and he began drinking too much. Freeman and Jeanette divorced in A year after his divorce, Freeman's career caught a break when he landed a part as a crazed inmate in the Robert Redford film, Brubaker However, the steady stream of film work he hoped would follow did not materialize, and Freeman was forced to retreat back to television for two hard years on the cast of the soap opera Another World.
For much of the rest of the decade, Freeman took on roles that earned him some acclaim — but not the big, powerful jobs that would garner A-list attention. In , Freeman's fortunes changed when he was cast in the film Street Smart , which placed the actor on the screen as the volatile pimp Fast Black.
The role proved to be huge success for Freeman, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he also starred in Edward Zwick's critically acclaimed Glory , a drama about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which was one of the first recognized African American units in the Civil War.
By the s, Freeman was riding high in his career, starring in such big budget films as 's The Shawshank Redemption , Seven and Deep Impact With his booming voice and commanding presence, Freeman was a natural to play God in the comedy Bruce Almighty and its sequel Evan Almighty. DeMille Award for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
I've been sucked into a kind of mold of a good guy and that's actually almost beyond my ability to control. But other than that, a good story and an interesting character is all I am looking for.
Freeman's eloquent, distinctive voice has also made him a natural for narration. His voice can be heard on such memorable films as War of the Worlds and the Academy Award-winning documentary March of the Penguins.
A few years later, he appeared in the action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen , the sci-fi film Oblivion , the comedy Last Vegas , the sci-fi blockbuster Lucy and did voice work for the animation The Lego Movie In , he played the Chief Justice of the United States on the television show Madam Secretary , for which he is also an executive producer.
At the ceremony, President Obama said Freeman was being honored "for his outstanding work as an actor, director, and narrator. His iconic stage and screen performances have brought to life characters from the whole spectrum of the human experience, moving audiences around the world, and influencing countless young artists.
While it may be a late-blooming success, it's nothing he's at all bitter about. I often think I'm probably lucky that I wasn't a wild success early on, coming up through the s.
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