10 Highly Successful Actors Who Don't Actually Act

2. Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is a treasure of modern cinema, having played countless loved characters, and narrated pretty much everything that has ever required a voice over in order to feel warm and homely. But the trouble here is that he has only ever played three characters: the President, God or a slightly grumpy, but well meaning old man. Another, slightly more unsettling thought is that Morgan Freeman, to the majority of film viewers, has never appeared to be any younger than fifty. Seriously, at no point in his film career does Morgan Freeman convincingly look like he is younger than a man approaching old age. This disconcerting revelation can therefore logically only mean one thing: Morgan Freeman actually is God. How else can he appear to be so free of the ravages of time, albeit beginning from an older age? More than this, seemingly every role Freeman has appeared in, he oozes a sense that he knows exactly what is going to happen, even in movies such as Se7en, where all around him are losing their heads (sorry), Freeman remains cool and calm. And why is that? Because if God is omnipotent, it must be extremely difficult for him to act in a convincing manner, given that he already knows the spoilers, and probably has done since the beginning of time. The only other acceptable theory must be that Freeman is just an ageing dude who likes his delta blues, and is enjoying his old age with a smile on his face. You only need to look at him in The Shawshank Redemption and The Bucket List to see him happily living out his life with a wizened head on his shoulders that is only ticked into being grumpy when something that disrupts his enjoyment stands in his way.