Celebrity Biographies
Morgan Freeman
This screen veteran has been active for three decades, although recognition came to him when he was already 50. He plays guys with moral authority, life experience, and wisdom. He is ideal to be “the guardian”, a character that the script manuals define as the one who has traveled the path that the hero is going to do.
Interviewing Morgan Freeman is quite an adventure. When he doesn’t like a question he is able to blurt out a rudeness, which further proves that he is right. The author of this article confesses that he committed the sovereign idiocy of asking him how he had prepared his character as CIA director in Nuclear Panic . “I didn’t have to do anything. My character spoke and I know how to speak, he walked and I know how to do that too ”. And yet, he inspires respect and deep down is charming.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 1, 1937, at age 18 he enlisted in the Air Force to become a pilot. When he got out, he had all kinds of occupations, while studying theater at the Pasadena Playhouse. He made his Broadway debut in 1967 with Hello, Dolly!, and four years later in the film production of Say I Can’t Ride a Rainbow? From then on, secondary characters rain down on him, among which Brubaker ‘s solitary prisoner stands out . For his marginal character in The 42nd Street Reporter he receives his first Oscar nomination. The bell is given in 1989, as the patient and understanding driver of Driving Miss Daisy, a role for which he is also up for an Academy Award. Shortly after, he established himself as Kevin Costner ‘s Muslim friend , in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves , and above all for his role as Ned Logan, Clint Eastwood ‘s faithful companion , and the only positive character in Unforgiven , a twilight western that undoubtedly part of the best of the 90s. While his friend Munny searches for redemption, Logan joins him in search of adventure, to recapture the good times. In 1994 he again escaped the Oscar, for the prisoner of Life Sentence . And curiously because of the police about him about to retire from Seven they didn’t even nominate him, despite the noise that this thriller madeDavid Fincher . The rest of the decade was spent starring in smaller but interesting titles, such as Moll Flanders , The Collector of Lovers , Amistad , Deep Impact , and especially Chasing Betty . He even had time to cap off his golden decade by debuting as a producer on the television series Mutiny , about the rebellion of 300 black sailors, who were wiped out. He also touched on race in his directorial debut, Bopha! , on the consequences of apartheid in South Africa.
In the new millennium Morgan Freeman has not stopped, specializing in increasingly powerful characters. From CIA director, in Nuclear panic , he went on to colonel in charge of everything in the failed Dreamcatcher , and from there to play the Supreme Being, in Like God , a celestial comedy at the service of Jim Carrey .
A big fan of animals, the actor has a hobby raising horses on his farm outside of Charleston. There he lives with his second wife, a costume designer, and his four children. He has finished shooting The Big Bounce , a thriller adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel . He is currently preparing Danny the Dog , the story of an oriental slave, and has several projects for the future.