Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 1, 1937. Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912-2000), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), a barber who died of cirrhosis in 1961, are his parents.
He has three older brothers and sisters. Some of his ancestors were Songhai and Tuareg from Niger, according to DNA analysis. Slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi were some of Freeman’s great-great-grandparents. Freeman later discovered that his Caucasian maternal great-great-grandfather had lived with and was buried next to Freeman’s African-American great-great-grandmother in the segregated South because the two could not legally marry at the time. The DNA test revealed that a little more than one-quarter of his African ancestors came from the region that stretches from present-day Senegal to Liberia, and three-quarters came from the Congo-Angola region.
Freeman was sent to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi, as an infant. During his childhood, he lived in Greenwood, Mississippi, Gary, Indiana, and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman contracted pneumonia when he was 16 years old. He made his acting debut at the age of nine when he played the lead in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School in Greenwood, Mississippi, which is now Threadgill Elementary School. He won a statewide drama competition when he was 12 years old, and while settling into school, he discovered music and theater. Freeman graduated from high school in 1955, but he chose to enlist in the US Air Force rather than accept a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University. As he progressed through the ranks, he worked as an airman first class repairing automatic tracking radars. He served in the military from 1955 to 1959 before relocating to Los Angeles, California, where he studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. At Los Angeles City College, where he also studied theatre arts, a teacher urged him to pursue a career in dance.
Morgan Freeman height: How tall is Morgan Freeman?
Morgan Freeman’s current height is 6ft 1.5in (187 cm)
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