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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.
This limited series serves as an adaptation of the classic PS2 JRPG Persona 3. Makoto Yuki, a depressed and asocial orphaned teenager, is forced to move to the bustling Tatsumi Port Island and attend school at Gekkoukan High. It is there that he discovers the Dark Hour, a dimensional anomaly that creates an hour in between days where shadows, manifestations of the most repressed aspects of the human psyche, run rampant. The source of the shadows is Tartarus, a massive eldritch tower that takes the place of Gekkoukan during the fabled Dark Hour. After a chance encounter with a particularly deadly shadow on a full moon, he discovers the power to summon a Persona, a concentrated expression of one's psyche. He then learns that some of his schoolmates possess similar abilities, and belong to a club known as SEES, whose purpose is to venture into Tartarus and eliminate shadows, which he promptly joins. The story then revolves around Makoto and his friends hanging out, battling shadows and uncovering a conspiracy regarding the origins of Tartarus that stretches back 10 years with links to his parent's untimely demise. (DISCLAIMER: Since this will be a western retelling of the game's plotline, I've decided to give certain characters english names, listed under aliases. Tatsumi Port Island and Gekkoukan High will retain their name schemes as to give the series a sort of East-Meets-West Aesthetic akin to Big Hero 6)
