American actor and producer Morgan Freeman has had a prolific career on film, television and on the stage. His film debut was as an uncredited character in the Sidney Lumet–directed drama The Pawnbroker in 1964. Freeman also made his stage debut in the same year by appearing in the musical Hello, Dolly! He followed this with further stage appearances in The Niggerlovers (1967), The Dozens (1969), Exhibition (1969), and the musical Purlie (1970–1971). He played various characters on the children's television series The Electric Company (1971–1977). Freeman subsequently appeared in the films Teachers in 1984, and Marie in 1985 before making his breakthrough with 1987's Street Smart. His role earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later he appeared in war film Glory (1989), and starred as Hoke Coleburn in the comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Freeman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in the latter and also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In the 1990s, he was cast in numerous films, including the adventure film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) opposite Kevin Costner, drama The Shawshank Redemption (1994) with Tim Robbins, psychological thriller Seven (1995), historical drama Amistad (1997), crime thriller Kiss the Girls (1997), and science fiction disaster film Deep Impact (1998). His role in The Shawshank Redemption earned him a second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2003, he played God in the comedy Bruce Almighty opposite Jim Carrey. The following year Freeman played Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris in Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby (2004), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Freeman played Lucius Fox in a trilogy of Batman films: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). During that time, Freeman also appeared in The Bucket List (2007) opposite Jack Nicholson, Wanted (2008) with Angelina Jolie, and Invictus (2009) with Matt Damon. In 2011, Freeman received the AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Two years later he starred in action thriller Olympus Has Fallen (2013), science fiction film Oblivion (2013), caper Now You See Me (2013), and comedy Last Vegas. In 2014, Freeman appeared in the science fiction films Transcendence and Lucy.

Freeman has also narrated several documentaries and television series, including Cosmic Voyage (1996), Slavery and the Making of America (2004), March of the Penguins (2005), and Breaking the Taboo (2011). He was also the host and narrator for the series Through the Wormhole from 2010 to 2017.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1964	The Pawnbroker	Man on Street	Uncredited
1966	A Man Called Adam	Party guest	Uncredited
1968	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	Grand Central Commuter	Uncredited
1971	Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!	Afro
1973	Blade	Chris
1980	Brubaker	Walter
1981	Eyewitness	Lieutenant Black
1984	Teachers	Lewis
1984	Harry & Son	Siemanowski
1985	Marie	Charles Traughber
1985	That Was Then... This Is Now	Charlie
1987	Street Smart	Fast Black
1988	Clean and Sober	Craig
1989	Glory	John Rawlins
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Hoke Colburn
1989	Lean on Me	Joe Louis Clark
1989	Johnny Handsome	Lt. Drones
1990	The Civil War	Frederick Douglass	Voice
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Judge White
1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir
1992	Unforgiven	Ned Logan
1992	The Power of One	Geel Piet
1993	Bopha!	—	Director only
1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator
1995	Outbreak	General Billy Ford
1995	Seven	Detective Lieutenant William Somerset
1996	Chain Reaction	Paul Shannon
1996	Moll Flanders	Hibble
1997	Amistad	Theodore Joadson
1997	Kiss the Girls	Alex Cross
1998	Deep Impact	President Beck
1998	Hard Rain	Jim
2000	Nurse Betty	Charlie
2000	Under Suspicion	Victor Benezet	Also executive producer
2001	Along Came a Spider	Alex Cross	Also executive producer
2002	The Sum of All Fears	DCI William Cabot
2002	High Crimes	Charlie Grimes
2003	Bruce Almighty	God
2003	Dreamcatcher	Col. Abraham Curtis
2003	Levity	Pastor Miles Evans	Also executive producer
2003	Guilty by Association	Lt. Redding
2004	The Big Bounce	Walter Crewes
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris
2005	An Unfinished Life	Mitch
2005	Batman Begins	Lucius Fox
2005	Unleashed	Sam
2005	Edison	Ashford
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Neil Armstrong	Documentary
2006	The Contract	Frank Carden
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	The Boss
2006	10 Items or Less	Himself	Also executive producer
2007	Evan Almighty	God
2007	Feast of Love	Harry Stevenson
2007	Gone Baby Gone	Jack Doyle
2007	The Bucket List	Carter Chambers
2008	Wanted	Sloan
2008	The Dark Knight	Lucius Fox
2009	Thick as Thieves	Keith Ripley	Also known as The Code
2009	The Maiden Heist	Charles Peterson
2009	Invictus	Nelson Mandela	Also executive producer
2010	RED	Joe Matheson
2011	Dolphin Tale	Dr. McCarthy
2012	The Magic of Belle Isle	Monte Wildhorn
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Lucius Fox
2013	Olympus Has Fallen	Allan Trumbull, Speaker of the House
2013	Oblivion	Beech
2013	Now You See Me	Thaddeus Bradley
2013	Last Vegas	Archie
2014	The Lego Movie	Vitruvius	Voice
2014	Transcendence	Joseph Tagger
2014	Lucy	Professor Norman
2014	Dolphin Tale 2	Dr. McCarthy
2014	5 Flights Up	Alex	Also executive producer
2014	Lennon or McCartney	Himself	Short documentary film; interview clip
2015	Last Knights	Bartok
2015	Ted 2	Patrick Meighan
2015	Momentum	Senator
2016	London Has Fallen	Vice President Allan Trumbull
2016	Now You See Me 2	Thaddeus Bradley
2016	Ben-Hur	Sheikh Ilderim
2017	Going in Style	Willie
2017	Just Getting Started	Duke Diver
2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Drosselmeyer
2018	Brian Banks	Jerome Johnson	Uncredited
2019	Princess of the Row	—	Executive producer only
2019	The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain	—	Executive producer only
2019	The Poison Rose	Doc
2019	Angel Has Fallen	President Allan Trumbull
2020	The Comeback Trail	Reggie Fontaine
2021	Coming 2 America	Himself
2021	Vanquish	Damon
2021	Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	Michael Bryce Sr./Senior
2022	Paradise Highway	Gerick
2022	The Minute You Wake Up Dead	Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
2023	The Ritual Killer	Dr. Mackles
2023	A Good Person	Daniel
2023	57 Seconds	Anton Burrell
2024	My Dead Friend Zoe	Dr. Cole
TBA	Gunner †	Kendrick Ryker	Post-production

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1971–1977	The Electric Company	Easy Reader / Mel Mounds / Dracula / Vincent the Vegetable Vampire / Mark	Main role
1978	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Uncle Hammer Logan	Television film
1979	Hollow Image	Ralph Simmons "Sweet Talk"	Television film
1980	Attica	Hap Richards	Television film
1981	Ryan's Hope	Cicero Murphy	2 episodes
1981	The Marva Collins Story	Clarence Collins	Television film
1981	Death of a Prophet	Malcolm X	Television film
1983	Another World	Dr. Roy Bingham	5 episodes
1985	The Atlanta Child Murders	Ben Shelter	Miniseries
1985	The Twilight Zone	Tony	Episode: "Dealer's Choice"
1986	Resting Place	Luther Johnson	Television film
1987	Fight For Life	Dr. Sherard	Television film
1988	Clinton and Nadine	Dorsey Pratt	Television film
1990	The Earth Day Special	Walter Samson	TV special
2008	Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution	Himself (host)	TV documentary
2008	Stephen Fry in America	Himself	Episode: "Mississippi"
2010	Saturday Night Live	Himself (cameo)	Episode: "Bryan Cranston/Kanye West"
2014–2019	Madam Secretary	Chief Justice Frawley	3 episodes; also executive producer
2016	2017 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony	Himself (host)	TV special
2016–2019	The Story of God with Morgan Freeman	Himself (host)	Also executive producer
2017	The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman	Himself (host)	Also executive producer
2017	2018 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony	Himself (host)	TV special
2020	Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?	Himself	Episode: "The Last Inmate!"
2021	Solos	Stuart	7 episodes
2021	The Kominsky Method	Himself	2 episodes
2023–present	Special Ops: Lioness	Edwin Mullins	Main role

Key

†	Denotes series that have not yet been released

Narrator

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1994	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Segment: "Amos, the Story of an Old Dog and His Couch"
1996	Cosmic Voyage	Documentary
1997	The Long Way Home	Documentary
2003	A Tale of Two Schools	Documentary
2004	The Hunting of the President	Documentary
2004	A Remarkable Promise	Short film
2004	Slavery and the Making of America	Documentary
2005	March of the Penguins	Documentary
2005	War of the Worlds	Narrative Feature
2008	The Love Guru	Narrative Feature
2008	A New Birth of Freedom	Documentary
2009	Prom Night in Mississippi	Documentary
2010–2017	Through the Wormhole	TV series (62 episodes)
2011	Curiosity	Episode: "Is There a Parallel Universe?"
2011	Born to Be Wild	Documentary
2011	Breaking the Taboo	Documentary
2011	Conan the Barbarian	Narrative Feature
2014	Island of Lemurs: Madagascar	Documentary
2014	The Mona Lisa Myth	Documentary
2016–2019	The Story of God with Morgan Freeman	TV series (15 episodes)
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
2018	Alpha	Narrative Feature
2020	Savage Mode II	Album (& album trailer)
2021	Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman	TV documentary
2022	Our Universe	Documentary
2023	100 Years of Warner Bros	Television documentary
2023	Life on Our Planet	Documentary

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Ref.
2002	"Waitin' on Joe"	Steve Azar	Narrator

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Ref.
2005	Batman Begins	Lucius Fox
2009	Wanted: Weapons of Fate	Sloan

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1964–1970	Hello, Dolly!	Rudolph	St. James Theatre
1967	The Niggerlovers	Creampuff	Orpheum Theatre
1969	The Dozens	Kgaravu	Booth Theatre
1969	Exhibition	David	Actors' Playhouse
1970–1971	Purlie	Purlie	Broadway Theatre / Winter Garden Theatre / August Wilson Theatre
1978	The Mighty Gents	Zeke	Ambassador Theatre
1978	White Pelicans	Winston	Lucille Lortel Theatre
1979	Coriolanus	Caius Martius / Coriolanus	Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theater/Delacorte Theater
1979	Julius Caesar	Casca	Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
1980	Mother Courage and Her Children	Chaplain	Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater
1983	Buck	Fred Milly	American Place Theatre
1984	Medea and the Doll	Dr. Winston Crews	Samuel Beckett Theatre
1987–1990	Driving Miss Daisy	Hoke Coleburn	John Houseman Theatre
1988	The Gospel at Colonus	Messenger	Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1990	The Taming of the Shrew	Petruchio	Delacorte Theater
2008	The Country Girl	Frank Elgin	Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
2011	8	David Boies	Eugene O'Neill Theatre

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Morgan Freeman