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Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory, the biographical drama Lean on Me, and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (all 1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1992, Freeman starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the western revenge film Unforgiven; this would be the first of several collaborations with Eastwood. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Freeman also starred in David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en (1995), and Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997). Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama Million Dollar Baby. In 2009, he received his fifth Oscar nomination for playing former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood's Invictus. Freeman is also known for his performance as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). In addition to acting, Freeman has directed the drama Bopha! (1993). He also founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre.
Morgan Freeman
Lucius Fox
for Lucius Fox in Batman: The Last Crusade
Suggested by underworld_stories
20 years after Wayne Tech was shut down and Bruce Wayne committed the rest of his life to being Batman we see a 65 year old Bruce and a 31 year old Dick Grayson ready to go out on one more mission together to stop the Joker's Legion of Gotham including villains like Joker, Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, Penguin, Clayface, Two-Face, Bane, Poison Ivy, Freeze, Riddler, Hush, and Man Bat. After all these years Joker decided that fighting Batman on his own wasn't going to cut it and now his new Legion will finally takeover Gotham. Throughout the movie Bruce pushes himself to his limit to try and stop these villains but even Batman won't be able to stop this alone. Eventually people from Bruce's past that left Gotham will come back to help him like Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Luke Fox, Azrael, Duke Thomas, and Cassandra Cain. This movie will celebrate everything Batman and be a true finale for Bruce's story as in this final battle they will beat all the villains although during the final fight between Batman and Joker both of them will end up killing each other and as Bruce dies Dick will hug him and Bruce tells Dick that the Batman will never end and will be remembered and carried on through his children. Tim tells Bruce that he will take up the mantle while Dick and Damian decide to remain Nightwing and Robin. The movie ends with all of the villains being put back in prison while Tim and Damian take on the roles of Batman and Robin.
