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BIRTHDAY

December 05, 1969

Long Beach, California, USA

RECENT CREDITS

16 & Pregnant: Life After Labor (TV) Jul. 23, 2009

Homecoming (FILM) Jul. 17, 2009

16 & Pregnant (TV) Jul. 16, 2009

MTV / Nick Lachey Reality Project (TV) May. 7, 2009

Taking the Stage (TV) May. 7, 2009

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BIOGRAPHY

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Like many future filmmakers, Morgan J Freeman began making home movies while still in his teens. In his case, these included shorts based on the popular 1980s NBC TV series "Miami Vice". The native California studied film at UC Santa Barbara where he got to make his first short films. A sojourn in Paris, which included courses in film theory at the Sorbonne and a stint as a production assistant for Why Not Productions, followed before Freeman landed at NYU. While in the graduate program, he wrote and directed six short films and also made the acquaintance of Todd Solondz, who hired him as second assistant director on 1996's "Welcome to the Dollhouse". Based on the success of his short "Boom" (1996), Freeman was able to find investors for his first feature, "Hurricane Streets/Hurricane" (1997), a coming-of-age tale about a Manhattan teen caught up in gang activities. When it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, it won three prizes, including two for its writer-director. Although it had a good buzz based on the festival screening, the film barely registered when it debuted theatrically nearly a year later. By then, Freeman had moved on to his second feature, "Desert Blue" (1999), an off-beat look at teenagers in a small California town.

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News Roundup, Dec. 24: Decomposed Body Is Dr. Laura's Mother

Dec. 24, 2002

Officials confirmed Monday that the badly-decomposed body of a woman thought to have been murdered in her home last week was the estranged mother of ultra conservative talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Also: Matt Damon Odessa Whitmire Catherine Zeta-Jones Michael Douglas Anthony Pellicano Steven Seagal The Big Bounce George Armitage Venice Film Festival Ben-Hur Rolling S...

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"Brown Sugar," "Barbershop" Top NAACP Image Noms

Posted: Dec. 6, 2002

News Roundup, Dec. 3: Sundance Fest Announces 2003 Films

Posted: Dec. 3, 2002

All-Star Reading for Charity

Posted: Oct. 25, 2002

News Roundup: August 1

Posted: Aug. 1, 2002

Box Office Analysis: July 7

Posted: Jul. 7, 2002

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