(conceived June 1, 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.), American entertainer whose profound profundity, unobtrusive humor, and flexibility made him one of the most-regarded entertainers of his age. Over a lifelong that remembered various vital exhibitions for stage, screen, and TV, Freeman was one of only a handful of exceptional African American entertainers who reliably got jobs that were not explicitly composed for Dark entertainers.

As a young fellow, Freeman had desires of being a military pilot; notwithstanding, a spell in the air force (1955-59) demonstrated disheartening, and he directed his concentration toward acting. He made his Broadway debut in an all-Dark creation of Hi Cart! in 1967. During the 1970s he kept on working on the stage and furthermore showed up on the instructive youngsters' TV program The Electric Organization as the person Simple Peruser. Freeman's presentation in the film Brubaker (1980) and on the drama A different universe

(1982-84), alongside a few energetic surveys for his dramatic work in the mid 1980s, prompted really testing film jobs. His depiction of a risky hawker in Road Savvy (1987) procured Freeman his most memorable Foundation Grant designation, for best supporting entertainer. He was subsequently designated for a best-entertainer Oscar for his work in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), in which he re-made the job of Hoke after first performing it in front of an audience. He displayed a drill sergeant chief in Rest on Me (1989), a cruel Nationwide conflict warrior in Brilliance (1989),

what's more, a maturing gunman in Unforgiven (1992). He made his first time at the helm with the antiapartheid film Bopha! (1993). A third Oscar selection came for his profound turn as a convict in The Shawshank Recovery (1994).

Freeman later showed up in a few wrongdoing dramatizations, including Se7en (1995), Kiss the Young ladies (1997), and Along Came a Bug (2001) — the last two in light of James Patterson books — as well as The Amount of All Feelings of trepidation (2002). He won a Foundation Grant for best supporting entertainer for his exhibition as a previous fighter in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Child (2004) preceding showing up as Lucius Fox, an innovative work master, in Christopher Nolan's Batman Starts (2005). Freeman repeated the last job in the continuations The Dim Knight (2008) and The Dull Knight Rises (2012). In Loot Reiner's The List of must-dos (2007), he and Jack Nicholson played in critical condition disease patients who take full advantage of their excess time.

In 2008 Freeman got back to Broadway after almost 20 years from the stage, playing the job of Forthright Elgin, a gifted at this point discouraged entertainer who has lost the will to perform, in The Cowgirl. The next year he reteamed with Eastwood on Invictus, a show in which he played Nelson Mandela, who looked to join separated South Africa by supporting the public rugby crew's journey to win the 1995 World Cup. Freeman later showed up as a previous CIA specialist in the activity parody Red (2010); as a high-positioning U.S. legislator in the spine chiller Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its continuations, London Has Fallen (2016) and Heavenly messenger Has Fallen (2019); and as a dystopian survivalist in the sci-fi experience Blankness (2013). He likewise played a performer who uncovered the tradecraft of his confreres in Now You See Me (2013) and its 2016 continuation. Freeman sought after less-emotional passage too with jobs in the nostalgic shows Dolphin Story (2011) and its spin-off, Dolphin Story 2 (2014), and in The Enchantment of Beauty Isle (2012).

Freeman went for snickers in the mate parody Last Vegas (2013), in which he featured inverse Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, and Kevin Kline. He later voiced a wizard in The LEGO Film (2014), a PC enlivened experience that highlighted renderings of LEGO toys as the characters and settings. His different jobs in 2014 remembered an enemy of man-made consciousness extremist for Greatness and a brain science teacher in Lucy. Freeman's later movies incorporated the comedies Ted 2 (2015); Going in Style (2017), a change of the 1979 film about retired people who plan a bank heist; and Simply Beginning (2017), in which two opponents at a retirement local area collaborate to save the lady of both their expressions of warmth from her ruffians.

Freeman later depicted the toy creator Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker and the Four Domains (2018), a transformation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's nineteenth century artful dance. In The Rebound Trail (2020), Freeman featured with De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones and was given a role as a crowd chief. His credits from 2021 incorporated the wrongdoing spine chiller Vanquish, the activity satire The Assassin's Better half's Protector, and the science fiction treasury television series Performances.

Freeman was the beneficiary of various honors, including a Kennedy Community Distinction in 2008 and the Cecil B. DeMille Grant (a Brilliant Globe for lifetime accomplishment) in 2012.