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Who Is Morgan Freeman?

Morgan Freeman joined the Air Force after high school to become a fighter pilot. He later realized it wasn't what he'd wanted and thus, began his acting career.

After years of small parts and limited success, he began to land big roles and win critical and popular acclaim.

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He's now one of Hollywood's most respected stars.

Early Life

Freeman was born on June 1, , in Memphis, Tennessee. The youngest of five children born to barber Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Sr. and schoolteacher Mayme Edna, Freeman was raised in Chicago and Mississippi in a low-income home.

Not long after he was born, Morgan's parents, like so many other African Americans struggling under the pressures of the Jim Crow South, relocated to Chicago to find work. While his parents looked for jobs, Freeman remained with his maternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi.

At the age of 6, Freeman's grandmother died and he moved north to be with his mother, who had already