Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an Afro-American actor and movie producer.
Early life
Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 1, 1937.[2] He started acting when he was nine years old in a school play and at age 12 won a drama competition in his home State. Morgan worked many acting jobs until 1968 when he got his first role on Broadway in a Musical called Hello, Dolly!. He is known for his soft-spoken voice. He has donated several amounts of money to the Democratic Party. Once he stated that "Republicans scare me."[3]
Some movies
Some movies that Freeman has been in include:
- Unforgiven as Ned Logan (1992)
- The Shawshank Redemption as Red (1994)
- Se7en as Detective Lt. William Somerset (1995)
- Bruce Almighty as God (2002)
- Batman Begins as Lucius Fox (2005)
- Evan Almighty as God (2007)
- The Dark Knight as Lucius Fox (2008)
- Invictus as Nelson Mandela (2009)
- RED as Joe (2010)
- The Dark Knight Rises as Lucius Fox (2012)
- Olympus Has Fallen as Speaker of the House Allan Trumbull (2013)
- The Lego Movie as Vitruvius (2014)
- Transcendence as Joseph Tagger (2014)
- Ted 2 as Patrick Meighan (2015)
- London Has Fallen as Vice President Allan Trumbull (2016)
References
- ↑ www.mnn.com
- ↑ Morgan Freeman Biography (1937-)
- ↑ Caitlin McDevitt (June 20, 2012). "Morgan Freeman: Republicans 'scare me'". Politico.
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