Morgan Freeman’s Career In Pictures, From ‘Electric Company’ to ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ And ‘Million Dollar Baby’

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Morgan Freeman’s Career In Pictures, From ‘Electric Company’ to ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ And ‘Million Dollar Baby’

It turns out that Morgan Freeman’s first big break in show business was just kid’s stuff. After working in a few unmemorable productions, Freeman caught on with PBS’s The Electric Company, a show from the Children’s Television Workshop designed to teach basic reading skills to kids from 7 to 10 years old. The gig ran for six seasons and 780 episodes. He next grabbed attention in 1980 with performances in Brubaker with Robert Redford and TV movie…