Morgan Freeman Net Worth

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Morgan Freeman Net Worth, How did the American actor and director accumulate such huge wealth? Check this article to find out more about Morgan Freeman Net Worth and his career.

Morgan Freeman Early Life

He is an American actor, film director and narrator. Morgan Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College and spent five years serving with the Air Force from 1955 to 1959. He later moved to LA where he started taking acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse before embarking on an acting career.

Morgan Freeman Career

Morgan was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 1, 1937. He started his career on stage, first as a dancer and then as an actor, earning a Tony nomination in 1978. He then transitioned to film work and has since starred or played supporting roles in a string of hits, including ‘Unforgiven’,  ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, and ‘Million Dollar Baby’, for which earned him an Oscar. 

He has enjoyed both an impressive and varied career on stage, television and screen. Morgan worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles City College. Also, he was often traveling in New York City and in San Francisco working as a dancer and as a member of a music theater group. 

In the mid 1960s, he first starred in an off-Broadway production of The Niggerlovers and later went with Pearl Bailey in an all-African-American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. 

Since then, Freeman has continued to have a successful career both on and off-Broadway and eventually on the big and small screen. He also earned an Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Invictus (2009). 

In 2005, he won an Academy Award for Million Dollar Baby. Freeman also won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He has appeared in other notable feature film productions such as Seven, Deep Impact, Unforgiven, Glory, The Sum of All Fears, Along Came a Spider, The Dark Knight trilogy, Bruce Almighty, Kiss the Girls, and March of the Penguins.

Morgan Freeman Net Worth

Morgan Freeman Net Worth as of today is $250 Million. Morgan Freeman Net Worth is earned from his career as an actor.

He revealed in March 2019 that he had converted his 124-acre farm in Mississippi into a bee sanctuary. His net worth reduced after he paid his ex-wife of 26 years, Myrna Colley-Lee $100-200 million in real estate and cash back in 2010. 

At a point, his wife had sought as much as $400 million based on the valuation of their holdings and Freeman’s future earning potential.

Summary:

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director and narrator. He started his career on stage, first as a dancer and then as an actor, earning a Tony nomination in 1978. 

He appeared in an off-Broadway production of The Niggerlovers and then with Pearl Bailey in an all-African-American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. 

Freeman earn himself the Academy Award for Million Dollar Baby.

As of 2020, Morgan Freeman’s net worth is $250 Million.