Morgan Freeman Just Turned 85 And You Are Now Reading This In His Voice

As Fox 13 reported, this plan soon changed when he caught the acting bug.

And while he would catch his first claim to fame during the 1970s as Easy Rider in the educational children's show The Electric Company, trouble loomed for the actor by the early '80s.

As he put it, "I thought my 15 minutes were up [...] I needed to get a job."

He credited Hollywood legend Paul Newman for restarting his career and by the end of the decade, he would secure two Oscar nominations for the 1987 movie Street Smart and the 1989 hit Driving Miss Daisy.

Five years later, he would receive yet another nomination for perhaps his most celebrated role, Red in the massively acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption.

And by the time 2010 rolled around, Freeman would receive his fourth Academy Award nomination for playing Nelson Mandela in Invictus a year prior.

Although he's hardly finished yet, he can already say he's entered his 85th birthday having achieved an enviable amount in his career.

h/t: Fox 13