Morgan Freeman is the father of four adult children: his sons Alfonso and Saifoulaye and his daughters Deena and Morgana.
By Lynsey Eidell Morgan Freeman is one of the most recognizable names in Hollywood, thanks to his legendary acting career that spans five decades, but the Oscar winner is also the father of four children. Freeman became a father for the first time in the early 1960s, having his sons, Alfonso and Saifoulaye, with two different women. Over the years, Freeman has been open to dedicating his youth to acting.
“I’m not sure that fatherhood changed me,” Freeman admitted to the Telegraph in 2014. “It took me a while to become a father. I was busy trying to be an actor and the two didn’t really go together. my youth.”
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Freeman’s first marriage to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw in 1967 produced two more children: he adopted Bradshaw’s daughter from a previous relationship, Deena, and the couple had another daughter named Morgana. He also helped raise Deena’s daughter, E’dena Hines, with his second wife, Myrna Colley-Lee.
The well-known actor told the Telegraph that he is more “involved” with his daughters. However, it was becoming a grandfather that Freeman felt really shined. “Now that I’m old enough, I’m a grandfather. I have 14 grandchildren,” he said. One of Freeman’s grandchildren, Morgana’s daughter Alexis Freeman, shared a similar sentiment about her grandfather when she accompanied him to the 2016 Chaplin Awards in New York. “It makes you a really humble person,” she told PEOPLE. “It makes you realize that you have to work to get what you want. I work hard at everything I do.”
Here’s everything you need to know about Morgan Freeman’s children and grandchildren.