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Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory, the biographical drama Lean on Me, and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (all 1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1992, Freeman starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the western revenge film Unforgiven; this would be the first of several collaborations with Eastwood. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Freeman also starred in David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en (1995), and Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997). Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama Million Dollar Baby. In 2009, he received his fifth Oscar nomination for playing former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood's Invictus. Freeman is also known for his performance as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). In addition to acting, Freeman has directed the drama Bopha! (1993). He also founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre.
A series of murders of former spies unsettles secret services. M summons Program 00, active agents with a license to kill. Bond finds himself alongside men he has only heard of in whispers. He must uncover a secret organization that is attacking MI6. There is rivalry between some of the agents. But everyone knows that the world is facing something MI6 has never experienced. The 00 group is split up around the world. Each of them is a target. The trail leads to an agent who officially never existed. MI6 locates the base. No one suspects that Dr. Julius No is not only a new villain, but also the first 00. No is code for N°0, so he was originally a super agent with the code 000. He has begun his revenge. Using the Spectre network, former Soviet scientists, and an artificial intelligence named OMEGA, he aims to destroy MI6 and dismantle the 00 system. One by one, the 00 agents die. Bond reaches the base and comes face to face with Dr. No. Flashbacks show Dr. No, who was once Operative Zero, the prototype super agent. When MI6 discovered that there was great evil within him, he was erased, but survived. 003 freezes to death in a Siberian bunker. 004 sacrifices himself with an explosive to save the others. 005 is betrayed by his own protégé. 002 stays behind to hold off the Spectre army. 006 Travelayne dies while inputting a sequence into the central server core. 008 dies at the hands of 000 in a brutal, personal scene. 009 falls like a tank, a sacrifice that allows Bond to succeed
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