Amazing acting genius Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to the son of a hairdresser and a nurse's assistant mother. Morgan Freeman was fourth in the family and the last oldest. Morgan Freeman made his debut on stage at the age of 8 and played a leading role in school plays. At the age of 12 he won the Interstate Drama Competition and performed radio plays in Nashville in high school. In 1955, Morgan Freeman declined a scholarship to part of jackson state university for drama and chose to become a mechanic in the U.S. Air Force. After retiring from the army in 1959, he went to Los Angeles Community College to study theater.

In 1967, Morgan Freeman first performed the black version of the cabaret "I Love the Red Lady" on Broadway, and since then he has traveled on Broadway and beyond the stage, from musicals to modern theaters to classical Shakespeare plays, showing Morgan Freeman's acting talents. After making a name for himself on Broadway, Morgan Freeman switched to television in 1971, playing Mr. "Good Reading" on a children's English-teaching program on American Public Television, during which he performed his first film, Who Says I Can't Drive a Rainbow. However, during the 1970s, Morgan Freeman's works were scattered on large and small screens, and the roles he played lacked connotation, did not have shock, did not give full play to Morgan Freeman's talents, and did not have too outstanding results.

Until 1987, he played an underworld villain in "Wandering the Streets", and his superb acting skills earned him two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe award that year. This success allowed Morgan Freeman to completely shift his energy from theater to film. In 1989, Morgan Freeman won him a Golden Globe award and a National Film Critics award for his loyal, honest, kind and brave old driver in "Driving for Miss Daisy", and was nominated for a second Academy Award; in the same year, he played Denzel Washington in "Glory", playing Cao Lin, who became an officer from a gravedigger, and Morgan Freeman considered him to be one of the most important and successful roles he played.

After the 1990s, Morgan Freeman starred in several blockbuster films that were both acclaimed and popular, and his amazing performance was unanimously recognized by the public and became the most popular movie star. In Rogue Robin Hood, Morgan Freeman played a Moorish samurai; in Unforgivable, Morgan Freeman played a good, honest, brave and strong old western gunner; in "Seven Deadly Sins" Morgan Freeman succeeded in portraying a sober, calm, witty, and agile old detective; and "The Shawshank Redemption" made Morgan Freeman nominated for a third Academy Award; in "Spread" with veteran star Film Emperor Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman's performance was also unanimously praised. In 1996, Morgan Freeman made another film on Chain Reaction.

In 2003, Morgan Freeman co-starred with comedian Kim Carey in the blockbuster comedy "The Counterfeit Gods", in which Morgan Freeman played the role of God. The film later topped the North American box office in its first week of release, and the sequel became the week's box office champion again after its release in 2007. In 2005, Morgan Freeman won the 77th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Million Dollar Baby" directed by Clint Eastwood.