Morgan Freeman

By LLLLLLeroy

  • The birth of a legend

    The birth of a legend
    Morgan Freeman was born to Morgan Freeman (senior) and Mamie Edna Revere in Memphis, Tenessee
  • Period: to

    young life

    Morgan was handed off to his paternal grandmother moving often going from Tenessee to Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois

  • Lights, Camera, Action!

    Lights, Camera, Action!
    Morgan debuts with the lead role in a school play

  • Early recognition

    Early recognition
    Morgan Freeman happened to win the statewide drama competition at this time

  • Deadly Encounter

    Deadly Encounter
    Morgan Freeman contracted pneumonia which by the way kills 4 million yearly, so he was quite lucky to survive

  • drama, college, graduation, and enlistment

    drama, college, graduation, and enlistment
    Mr.Morgan graduates from high school and gets offered a drama scholarship at Jackson State University but rejects their offer and enlists in the Air Force

  • off duty and off to the races

    off duty and off to the races
    Morgan Freeman moved to Los Angeles and took acting classes at Pasadena Playhouse and studied theater arts at Los Angeles City College.
    (by the way, that photo is of Pasadena Playhouse)

  • the opera ring musical theater group

    the opera ring musical theater group
    suddenly after a few years, he appeared as a part of a theater group in San Francisco. he was at the World's Fair, and he did a rendition of [The Royal Hunt Of The Sun].

  • Debut #2

    Debut #2
    Morgan Freeman debuts off-broadway. Before our lovely professor asks like she probably will an off-broadway show is like a show on Broadway only difference is it's not on Broadway. How are they the same? they both seat audiences larger than 100 that's it.

  • Wife 1#

    Wife 1#
    Mr.Freeman marries Jeanette Adair Bradshaw

  • Hello, dolly!

    Hello, dolly!
    Guess what he's got on Broadway now in an all-black version of [Hello, Dolly] a story about a matchmaker trying to find a husband for a sad, depressing, unmarried, can't-get-no man, and rich lady named Horace. I'm sure her mother (technically Thornton Wilder) loved her to give her such a....fascinating name

  • Purlie

    Purlie
    morgan freeman is featured in Purlie a musical about a town where Jim Crow laws are still in effect and they need to save a church from being demolished.
  • Period: to

    the not so glamorous [The Electric Company]

    now while this is a PBS production and not a play it's important because it gave Mr.Freeman much financial stability and wide-scale recognition in America, however, he gave up on the show after four years because he was getting worked to the bone by corporate America.

  • Here Comes [THE MIGHTY GENTS]

    Here Comes [THE MIGHTY GENTS]
    Mr.Freeman shows up as a wino (drunkard) in the 1978 production

  • I'm feeling a little Shakespearian

    I'm feeling a little Shakespearian
    Morgan Freeman gets two roles in a rendition of Coriolanus, the man Coriolanus and Julius Cesar. quick summary Coriolanus is about Coriolanus a general who got the last name Coriolanus after winning a battle in Corioli but then gets exiled from Rome, he then runs into the guys he beat in battle earlier they team up to attack Rome negotiates a peace treaty and then they go, "wait a minute, F*#$ Rome this isn't what we wanted" and kill Coriolanus because this is his fault I guess.

  • Divorce

    Divorce
    Mr.Freeman and Jeanette Adair Bradshaw divorced unfortunately I couldn't find many details about this subject
  • Period: to

    A list of a few to many plays

    this is just his early career so we should do a bit of speedrunning, from this point onward Morgan Freeman starred in the Another World soap opera, The Gospel At Colonus(he won an Obie award), and Driving Miss Daisy. He also did movies but I'm under Hippocratic oath not to talk about that

  • Second marriage

    Second marriage
    Morgan Freeman takes his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee

  • The Taming Of The Shrew

    The Taming Of The Shrew
    A play by William Shakespeare about a nobleman who tricks a drunk Tinker (he makes spoons :D) that he also is a nobleman and then the tinker tries to court Katherina (the mentioned shrew in the title) how does he do this you ask? he uses animal-taming techniques, including but not limited to starving her, locking her in a room, and kidnapping (greek mythology style). So like, not so :D more like D: this is also the last play he starred in (that I could find at least)

  • Pilot license

    Pilot license
    so remember how he was in the Air Force? now he owns a plane he can just take around

  • farewell Nissan Maxima

    farewell Nissan Maxima
    on that day Morgan Freeman got into a car crash while drunk (supposedly it was argued in court) he and his passenger were injured and had to be pried out of the car with tools where they were rushed to the hospital via helicopter, Freeman made a full recovery however he now has fibromyalgia which to describe simply, he will have constant pain for the rest of his life alongside hypersensitivity and damaged blood circulation

  • Tragedy strikes

    Tragedy strikes
    at 33 years old Mr.Freeman's stepdaughter in murdered in New York City

  • links and the fore such

    links and the fore such
    the Morgan Freeman Wikipedia article-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Freeman#Personal_life
    the royal hunt of the sun wiki-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Hunt_of_the_Sun
    Hell, Dolly wiki-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)
    Pasadena Playhouse wiki-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena_Playhouse
    Coriolanus wiki- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus
    the taming of the shrew wiki- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew