My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

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.