Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman (2006)

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American actor , presenter , director , producer and Oscar winner. He is one of the most prominent character actors in Hollywood.

Life

Freeman grew up in Chicago and Los Angeles . There he attended a community college . From 1955 he served as a mechanic in the US Air Force for four years .

In 2008, he broke his arm and elbow in a car accident in Mississippi, USA , and sustained a shoulder injury.

He has a private pilot license and several aircraft, including a Cessna 414 , a Cessna Citation 501 SP and an Emivest Aerospace SJ30 as of 2010 . He also reserved a space flight on Virgin Galactic's Space Ship Two .

In July 2012, he donated a million dollars to the super-PAC "Priorities USA Action", a lobby group that campaigned for the re-election of Barack Obama . Freeman justified the donation by saying that "Obama did an extraordinary job in this historically difficult time".

Freeman, who has been divorced twice, has four children.

Career

Beginnings and breakthrough

Freeman played in school plays as a child and won a national acting competition at the age of 12.

At the Pasadena Playhouse , he made his stage debut in the early 1960s in the play The Niggerlovers . A short time later he was in an African-American version of the successful musical Hello, Dolly! to see. Freeman became known nationwide in 1971 with the TV show The Electric Company , in which he embodied "Easy Reader" until 1977.

He received four Obie Awards in the 1980s for his performance in the plays Mother Courage and Her Children , The Gospel at Colonus , Coriolanus and Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur . The Broadway musical The Mighty Gents earned him a Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination. In 1980 he was in Stuart Rosenberg's Brubaker , in 1981 in Peter Yates' The Eyewitness and Malcolm X - Death of a Prophet (Death of a Prophet) . In 1987 he received an Oscar nomination for the film Glitzernder Asphalt . In 1989 Morgan Freeman made her international breakthrough with Miss Daisy and her chauffeur . He had previously played the role of old Miss Daisy's chauffeur, which earned him another Oscar nomination, in the theater.

1990 until today

In the following years he worked in numerous films, including the civil war drama Glory , the satire Purgatory of Vanities , the adventure film Robin Hood - King of Thieves and Merciless in the Late West . In 1993 he first directed the film Bopha! - struggle for freedom , which deals with the apartheid in South Africa employed, a subject on which he previously been a year in the film The Power of One , along with Stephen Dorff worked. In 1994, Freeman starred alongside Tim Robbins in the Stephen King film The Condemned and received his third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor . A year later he took on roles in Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak - Silent Killer and the thriller Seven by David Fincher . In 1997 he directed the drama Amistad - The Slave Ship and the disaster film Deep Impact, directed by Steven Spielberg .

Other films include The Attack , Dreamcatcher and the comedies Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty , in which he can be seen as God. For Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby , he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005. He was also seen in the more recent Batman films Batman Begins , The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises as Lucius Fox, an important ally of the title character.

A frequently recurring theme of his films are the rights of blacks and their oppression (including In the Shine of the Sun , Malcolm X - Death of a Prophet , Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur , Bopha! - The Fight for Freedom , Amistad - The Slave Ship ) . In 2009, he portrayed the former South African president and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's drama Invictus . In 1990 he repeated the quotations of the former slave and later abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the original English version of the television series The American Civil War .

Together with a friend and business partner, Freeman runs the Ground Zero blues club . The Madidi restaurant in Clarksdale (Mississippi), which is also jointly operated , was closed in 2012 after ten years of existence.

Since 2010 he has worked as executive producer , presenter and speaker on the documentary series Morgan Freeman: Mysteries of the Universe . The series deals with the secrets of the universe.

In May 2012, a complaint was made at Time Warner's general meeting of shareholders that Freeman had accused the tea party movement of racism during a promotional appearance for The Dark Knight Rises . Allegedly that reduced the commercial success of the movie My Friend the Dolphin . The filing shareholder runs a right-wing think tank . The film company's board of directors declined to reprimand Freeman.

Dubbing voice

Since The Condemned , Freeman has been dubbed alternately by Klaus Sonnenschein († 2019) and Jürgen Kluckert . Other speakers were Reinhard Brock ( Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty ) or Helmut Krauss († 2019).

Filmography

actor

Executive Producer

Director

  • 1993: Bopha! - fight for freedom (Bopha!)

Awards and nominations (selection)

Result category Award
1988 Nominated Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Awards
Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globes
1990 Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards
Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Golden Globes
Nominated Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) American Comedy Awards
Won Best acting team Berlin International Film Festival
1995 Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards
Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes
Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Awards
2001 Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical Satellite Awards
2003 Nominated Choice Movie Chemistry Teen Choice Awards
Won Star on the Walk of Fame (Motion Picture) Walk of Fame
2004 Nominated Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Box Office Movie BET Comedy Awards
2005 Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Awards
Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globes
Won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Awards
Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Awards
2009 Won Favorite Cast People's Choice Awards
2010 Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards
Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes
Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Awards
2012 Won Favorite Movie Icon People's Choice Awards
2015 Won Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film Behind the Voice Actors Awards
Nominated Best Male Vocal Performance in a Feature Film in a Supporting Role Behind the Voice Actors Awards
Nominated Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film Behind the Voice Actors Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Morgan Freeman  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Morgan Freeman  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Title not visible in the online preview . Interview with Morgan Freeman. In: The New Yorker . tape 54 , no. 20-28 , 1978, pp. 20 (English, snippet view in Google Book Search [accessed September 1, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car accident. In: faz.net. August 5, 2008, accessed August 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ $ 7.25 million baby. In: arabianaerospace.aero. April 30, 2010, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  4. Jump into space - A spaceport is being built in New Mexico. In: spiegel.de. December 13, 2005, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Morgan Freeman donates one million dollars to Obama. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 23, 2012, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Portrait of a star - Morgan Freeman. In: gala.de. May 19, 2018, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Morgan Freeman closing Madidi Restaurant in Mississippi. In: thegrio.com. February 29, 2012, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Morgan Freeman: Mysteries of the Universe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  9. ↑ Ben Child: Dark Knight Rises imperilled by Morgan Freeman's politics, claims Time Warner shareholder. In: theguardian.com . May 16, 2012, accessed October 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Freeman, Morgan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freeman, Morgan Porterfield Junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director, producer and Oscar winner
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis , Tennessee