Morgan Freeman Age, Height, Net Worth & Biography

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer and narrator who has been one of the most respected performers in film for more than six decades. Born on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman, 89, is known for his deep, authoritative voice, his calm screen presence, and roles in Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Million Dollar Baby, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Morgan Freeman
Age	89 years old
Date of Birth	June 1, 1937
Birthplace	Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Partner	Not publicly in a relationship (as of 2026); previously married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw and Myrna Colley-Lee
Net Worth	Approx. $250 million (Celebrity Net Worth, 2025)
Known For	The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Baby, Se7en, The Dark Knight

Who Is Morgan Freeman?

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer and narrator, widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation. In a career spanning six decades, he has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In a 2022 readers’ poll by Empire magazine, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

Freeman is known for playing wise, authoritative characters, and for his voice work as a narrator, including the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins (2005) and the science series Through the Wormhole (2010-2017). His films have grossed more than $5.3 billion worldwide. Like Denzel Washington, Freeman is one of the most acclaimed Black actors in Hollywood history, and like Tom Hanks, he has become known for playing decent, dependable men in films that families return to again and again.

Early Life & Background

Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna, a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. He was raised in Mississippi by his grandmother in Charleston, and later lived in Chicago with his mother. As a child, Freeman won a statewide drama competition at the age of 12, and he discovered his love of acting in school plays, though he also enjoyed music and joined the school band.

After graduating from Broad Street High School in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1955, Freeman turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University and instead joined the United States Air Force, where he served as a radar repairman from 1955 to 1959. He then moved to Los Angeles to take acting lessons, and later to New York, where he worked as a dancer and in the theatre. He made his Broadway debut in 1967 in an all-Black production of Hello, Dolly! and appeared in the children’s television series The Electric Company from 1971 to 1975, which made him known to a generation of American children.

Morgan Freeman’s Career

Freeman’s first significant film roles came in the late 1980s: Street Smart (1987), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, and Driving Miss Daisy (1989), in which he played a chauffeur to Jessica Tandy’s Southern widow and earned a Golden Globe Award. He followed it with Glory (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Unforgiven (1992). In 1994 he played Ellis “Red” Redding in The Shawshank Redemption, opposite Tim Robbins, a film that has become one of the most beloved films of all time.

Freeman followed Shawshank with the crime thriller Se7en (1995), the disaster film Deep Impact (1998), in which he played the President of the United States, and Along Came a Spider (2001). In 2004 he played the boxer Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also played God in Bruce Almighty (2003) and Evan Almighty (2007), and Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012).

Freeman continued to work steadily into his 80s, with Invictus (2009), in which he played Nelson Mandela and earned his fifth Oscar nomination, The Bucket List (2007), Now You See Me (2013) and its sequel, and Going in Style (2017). He also narrated the documentary March of the Penguins, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2024 he starred in the Taylor Sheridan series Lioness, and he has continued to host and narrate documentaries about science, history and the world around him.

Facts About Morgan Freeman

• Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee, and is 89 years old.
• He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby in 2005.
• He played Ellis “Red” Redding in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
• He served in the United States Air Force from 1955 to 1959 before becoming an actor.
• He has narrated the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins and the science series Through the Wormhole.

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