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    Morgan Freeman has had an extensive career as an actor and director. He made his directorial debut in 1993 with the film Bopha! and has since directed episodes of television shows. Freeman has hosted television shows focused on physics outreach and history. He has also narrated television programs, films, and commercials. In his personal life, Freeman has been married twice and has children from previous relationships. He also adopted his step-granddaughter and raised her with his second wife. In recent years, Freeman has taken up beekeeping to help support declining honeybee populations on his ranch.

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    Morgan Freeman has had an extensive career as an actor and director. He made his directorial debut in 1993 with the film Bopha! and has since directed episodes of television shows. Freeman has hosted television shows focused on physics outreach and history. He has also narrated television programs, films, and commercials. In his personal life, Freeman has been married twice and has children from previous relationships. He also adopted his step-granddaughter and raised her with his second wife. In recent years, Freeman has taken up beekeeping to help support declining honeybee populations on his ranch.

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    Morgan Freeman has had an extensive career as an actor and director. He made his directorial debut in 1993 with the film Bopha! and has since directed episodes of television shows. Freeman has hosted television shows focused on physics outreach and history. He has also narrated television programs, films, and commercials. In his personal life, Freeman has been married twice and has children from previous relationships. He also adopted his step-granddaughter and raised her with his second wife. In recent years, Freeman has taken up beekeeping to help support declining honeybee populations on his ranch.

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    Freeman made his directorial debut in 1993 with Bopha! for Paramount Pictures.


    In July 2009, Freeman was one of the presenters at the 46664 Concert celebrating Nelson
    Mandela's birthday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
    Effective January 4, 2010, Freeman replaced Walter Cronkite as the voiceover introduction to
    the CBS Evening News featuring Katie Couric as news anchor.[30] CBS cited the need for consistency
    in introductions for regular news broadcasts and special reports as the basis for the change. [30] As of
    2010, Freeman is the host and narrator of the Discovery Channel television show, focused
    on physics outreach, Through the Wormhole.[31] He was featured on the opening track to B.o.B's
    second album Strange Clouds. The track "Bombs Away" features a prologue and epilogue (which
    leads into a musical outro) spoken by Freeman.
    In 2015, Freeman directed "The Show Must Go On", the season two premiere of Madam Secretary.
    In 2017, he hosted The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman.
    Up until May 2018, Freeman also served as the narrator of a series of Visa commercials.[32]

    Personal life

    Freeman and daughter Morgana Freeman at the 1990 Academy Awards

    From his early life, Freeman has two extramarital children; one of them is Alfonso Freeman.[33]
    Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967 until November 18, 1979.
    [34]

    Freeman married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984. [34] The couple separated in December
    2007[35] and divorced on September 15, 2010. [35] Freeman and Colley-Lee adopted Freeman's
    stepgranddaughter from his first marriage, E'dena Hines, and raised her together. [36] On August 16,
    2015, Hines was murdered in New York City at age 33. [37]
    In 2008, the TV series African American Lives 2 revealed that some of Freeman's great-great-
    grandparents were slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. Freeman discovered
    that his Caucasian maternal great-great-grandfather had lived with, and was buried beside,
    Freeman's African-American great-great-grandmother (in the segregated South, the two could not
    marry legally at the time).[6] A DNA test on the series stated that he is descended in part from
    the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.[8]

    Beekeeping
    After becoming concerned with the decline of honeybees, Freeman decided to turn his 124-acre
    ranch into a sanctuary for them in July 2014, starting with 26 bee hives. [38]

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