Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr.,
one of the greatest actors of our time . . .
Actor, narrator, director, production company owner, humanitarian. . . he is a man of many talents, but perhaps most well-known for the Oscar-winning brilliance of his work on the big screen.
"I like being ecclectic," he has said about his film choices. "The more varied the better; the wider the range. I've been sucked into a kind of mold of a good guy and that's actually almost beyond my ability to control. But other than that, a good story and an interesting character is all I am looking for."
His climb to stardom was uphill; and while it may have been a late-blooming success, it's nothing he's at all bitter about. "Success comes when it comes," he has said. "I had a career for 30 years; a 30-year career is not bad. I often think I'm probably lucky that I wasn't a wild success early on, coming up through the 1970s. I could have very easily burned out."
Freeman has lent his face, his voice and his fame to a host of charitable endeavors. The actor, who resides in the Mississippi Delta, raised money for Katrina victims not long after the devastating hurricane ripped through the area. Through Rock River Foundation, an organization he started, Freeman's group has donated millions to educational programs. And in 2004 he helped organize relief funds for hurricane victims in Grenada.
While Freeman's personal life has experienced a bit of turbulence in recent years—with a split from his second wife in 2007, and his near-fatal car accident in Charlestown, Mississippi—the actor shows no signs of slowing down. In 2009, Freeman teamed up with Clint Eastwood again, playing the role of South African President Nelson Mandela in Invictus. Have you seen it yet? It is a crowning jewel to such a lifetime of achievement. We, The Morgan Freeman Fan Club, are proud to be here to celebrate his successes!
And there's more to come! Much, much more to come.