I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

His family moved frequently during his childhood living in Greenwood Mississippi; Gary Indiana; and finally Chicago Illinois. In 1994 he portrayed Red the redeemed convict in the acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption. Freeman has several horses that he takes there.

Morgan Freeman (born June 1 1937) is an American actor film director and narrator. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.