Morgan Freeman's Net Worth

What’s Morgan Freeman’s Net Worth? Morgan Freeman, born on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee, is an American actor who has starred in many Hollywood movies throughout his career as an actor. Morgan Freeman’s net worth as of 2016 was approximately $170 million; however, this can change based on the success of his future projects and investments. Let’s look at how Morgan Freeman got here and what he has planned next!

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Early Life

Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. As a child he was so interested in space that his mother thought of it as a phobia. He states, My mother says I started asking about space when I was two years old. I’d look at stars and talk about how if you went straight long enough you’d come back to where you started. When he was 10 years old he suffered from pneumonia.

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Career Beginning

He began acting in TV commercials when he was 9, and first appeared on screen as a teenager in a short film titled The Story of Lefty Brown. It was shown at select theaters in Kansas City, Missouri. He later enrolled at Los Angeles City College to study acting and continued acting while attending. His breakthrough role came when he played tenor saxophonist Bigard in 1973’s The Mackintosh Man, with Henry Fonda playing a secret agent out to uncover Nazi war criminals who have assumed new identities after World War II. Freeman has since gone on to play several more significant roles that have garnered him popular acclaim.

What he did before acting

Before becoming an actor, Freeman was a veteran of The United States Air Force. He completed his AFROTC (Air Force ROTC) training at Grambling State University before being stationed at March Air Force Base in California and Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. While on active duty, he attained his pilot wings and received a crash rescue fireman rating. Later on, he spent time working as a garbage collector before officially changing careers to acting.

His earnings from movies and TV shows

$27.8 million. In 2018, he starred in two movies: The Nutcracker and The Four Realms and Going in Style. His former co-star Michael Caine said that Freeman has a good number of offers for a new project. However, his most popular role is still as Lucius Fox from The Dark Knight trilogy. Since 1989, he has earned $25 million from these movies alone.

Award And Achievement

Morgan Freeman won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Million Dollar Baby, along with two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also received a nomination for Best Actor at both of these awards ceremonies. In addition to his acting accolades, he has been awarded four Grammy Awards for narrating God and His Thoughts, The Holy Qur’an, The Bible (Parts I-XII) and seven Grammy nominations overall. All in all, he is one of only 10 people who have achieved what is known as EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony wins). Most recently, he was awarded a Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2013.

Property And Cars Collection

Among his fleet of cars, Morgan has a number of Ferraris, Rolls Royces and several Porches. The most expensive car from his collection is most likely to be Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III Landaulette, worth around $50K. The list also features Lamborghini Aventador worth more than $400K, Ferrari 458 Italia Spider with an estimated cost of $260K and BMW M3 Coupe at a price tag of over $40K. His real estate portfolio includes four villas in New York City; three units in Atlanta; one condo in Los Angeles; houseboat on Lake Lanier near Atlanta and a yacht called The Sixteen Tons which he uses while filming in Italy and Africa.