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{{Infobox person
| name               = Morgan Freeman
| image              = Morgan Freeman at The Pentagon on 2 August 2023 - 230802-D-PM193-3363 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Morgan Freeman in August 2023 
| birth_name         = Morgan Porterfield Freeman Jr.
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1937|6|1}}
| birth_place        = [[Memphis, Tennessee]], [[USA]]
| death_date         =
| death_place        =
| education          = [[Broad Street High School]]
| organization       = [[Revelations Entertainment]]
| spouse             = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Jeanette Adair Bradshaw|1967|1979|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Myrna Colley-Lee|1984|2010|end=divorced}}}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|director|producer|narrator}}
| years_active       = 1964–present
| works              = [[Morgan Freeman on screen and stage|Full list]]
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Morgan Freeman|Full list]]
| module2            = [[File:Morgan freeman bbc radio4 film programme 12 09 2008 b00dbcdn.flac|center]]Morgan Freeman's voice from BBC Radio 4's ''[[The Film Programme]]'', September 12, 2008.<ref name="TheFilmProgramme">{{cite episode | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dbcdn | title=12/09/2008 | date=September 12, 2008 | access-date=January 18, 2014 | series=The Film Programme | station=BBC Radio 4 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204180033/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dbcdn | archive-date=February 4, 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref>
| children           = 4
| module             = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
| allegiance         = [[United States|United States of America]]
| branch             = {{flag|United States Air Force}}
| serviceyears       = 1955–1959
| rank               = [[File:E3 USAF AM1.svg|25px]] [[Airman first class|Airman First Class]]
}}
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'''Morgan Porterfield Freeman Jr.''' (born June 1, 1937) is an [[Afro-American]] [[actor]], [[director]], [[producer]] and [[narrator]].

He is also a [[beekeeper]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nace|first=Trevor|title=Morgan Freeman Converted His 124-Acre Ranch Into A Giant Honeybee Sanctuary To Save The Bees|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/03/20/morgan-freeman-converted-his-124-acre-ranch-into-a-giant-honeybee-sanctuary-to-save-the-bees/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Freeman was born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] on June 1, 1937.<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/24/Morgan-Freeman.html Morgan Freeman Biography (1937-)]</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/06/morgan-freeman-republicans-scare-me-126766|title=Morgan Freeman: Republicans 'scare me'|date=June 20, 2012|newspaper=Politico|author=Caitlin McDevitt}}</ref> 

==Some movies==
Some movies that Freeman has been in include:
*''[[Brubaker]]'' as Walter (1980)
*''[[Unforgiven]]'' as Ned Logan (1992)
*''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' as Red (1994)
*''[[Outbreak (movie)|Outbreak]]'' as Gen. Billy Ford (1995)
*''[[Seven (movie)|Se7en]]'' as Detective Lt. William Somerset (1995)
* ''[[Deep Impact (movie)|Deep Impact]]'' (1998)
*''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' as God (2002)
*''[[Batman Begins]]'' as [[Lucius Fox]] (2005)
*''[[Evan Almighty]]'' as God (2007)
*''[[The Dark Knight (movie)|The Dark Knight]]'' as Lucius Fox (2008)
*''[[Invictus (movie)|Invictus]]'' as [[Nelson Mandela]] (2009)
*''[[RED (movie)|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 (movie)|Transcendence]]'' as Joseph Tagger (2014)
*''[[Ted 2]]'' as Patrick Meighan (2015)
*''[[London Has Fallen]]'' as Vice President Allan Trumbull (2016)
*''[[The Nutcracker and the Four Realms]]'' as Drosselmeyer (2018)

==References==
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== Other websites ==
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