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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.
Remake "aggiornatta" of the film that mixing blaxploitation and zombies in 1974, became a cult film. Sugar's boyfriend Langston is ordered by a thug to sell to him "Haiti" nightclub. As he refuses, he receives a fatal beating from the henchmen of the real brains behind the blackmail; the gangster Morgan and his even more aggressive, cruel and racist girlfriend, Celeste. Then Morgan pressures Sugar to give up the business, who resist and being aware that he and his lover are responsible for Lansgton's death, seeks help from Mama Maitrese, a Voodoo priestess who summons the Lord of the dead, Baron Samedi, . and Mamam Brigitt, his wife, mistress of the cycle of life and death, to revenge her boyfriend death. The different gangsters involved begin to suffer the consequences and generate to the distrust of Detective Valentine (an ex-boyfriend of Sugar). Obviously the greatest punishment is reserved for Morgan and, above all for Celeste who will be rescued from the swamp where she and her partner sink when they try to flee helplessly from the persecution of the zombies, but she discovers that the rescue is only to be taken to the underworld, as Samedi's harem slave.
