Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

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.