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Morgan Freeman

American actor and producer (born 1937)

  • Fame77.5
  • Momentum28.3
  • Actors rank#222
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  • Fame77.5
  • Momentum28.3
  • Actors rank#222
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Born 1937 · age 89United States
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    110 languages
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  • Age
    89
    Born 1937
  • Known for
    The Shawshank Redemption
    1994
Summary
Updated 2026-09-03

That voice — low, warm, unshakable — has narrated penguins crossing ice and mysteries threading the cosmos, but it belongs to an actor who spent decades proving he could carry a scene without saying a word.

Biography

About

Born June 1, 1937, in Memphis and raised in Mississippi, Freeman began acting in school plays, studied theater in Los Angeles, and spent his early career on stage. He gained recognition in the 1970s on the children's show The Electric Company, then earned an Obie for Coriolanus and a Tony nomination in 1978 for The Mighty Gents. His first Oscar nomination came with Street Smart in 1987; two more followed for Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption before he won Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby in 2004, playing a former boxer in Clint Eastwood's corner. The decades since ha…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman
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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
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To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck!
Morgan Freeman
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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Morgan Freeman
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You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman
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We have 7 billion people on this planet.
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • National Medal of Arts
  • AFI Life Achievement Award
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
77.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum28.3
Historical38.6
Now attention34.5
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
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Country rank
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Category rank
#222
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence