All All. Sign In. List activity. Arsenio Hall. Producer Actor Writer Coming to America Morgan Freeman. Actor Producer Director Se7en With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. His first dramatic arts exposure was on the stage including appearing in an all-African American production of the exuberant musical Hello, Dolly!.
Throughout the s, he continued his work on stage, winning Drama Desk and Clarence Derwent Awards and receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance in The Mighty Gents in Next, there was a small role in the thriller Blade ; then he played Casca in Julius Caesar and the title role in Coriolanus Regular work was coming in for the talented Freeman and he appeared in the prison dramas Attica and Brubaker , Eyewitness , and portrayed the final 24 hours of slain Malcolm X in Death of a Prophet For most of the s, Freeman continued to contribute decent enough performances in films that fluctuated in their quality.
However, he really stood out, scoring an Oscar nomination as a merciless hoodlum in Street Smart and, then, he dazzled audiences and pulled a second Oscar nomination in the film version of Driving Miss Daisy opposite Jessica Tandy.
The same year, Freeman teamed up with youthful Matthew Broderick and fiery Denzel Washington in the epic Civil War drama Glory about freed slaves being recruited to form the first all-African American fighting brigade. Freeman's next role was as gunman Ned Logan, wooed out of retirement by friend William Munny to avenge several prostitutes in the wild west town of Big Whiskey in Clint Eastwood 's de-mythologized western Unforgiven The film was a sh and scored an acting Oscar for Gene Hackman , a directing Oscar for Eastwood, and the Oscar for best picture.
In , Freeman made his directorial debut on Bopha! More strong scripts came in, and Freeman was back behind bars depicting a knowledgeable inmate and obtaining his third Oscar nomination , befriending falsely accused banker Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption He was then back out hunting a religious serial killer in Se7en , starred alongside Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction , and was pursuing another serial murderer in Kiss the Girls Now highly popular, he was much in demand with cinema audiences, and he co-starred in the terrorist drama The Sum of All Fears , was a military officer in the Stephen King -inspired Dreamcatcher , gave divine guidance as God to Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty , and played a minor role in the comedy The Big Bounce First, he he teamed up with good friend Clint Eastwood to appear in the drama, Million Dollar Baby Freeman's on-screen performance is simply world-class as ex-prize fighter Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris, who works in a run-down boxing gym alongside grizzled trainer Frankie Dunn, as the two work together to hone the skills of never-say-die female boxer Hilary Swank.
