Morgan Freeman: What You Don’t Know About The Beloved Actor

Turned Down A Drama Scholarship

Many people would kill to win a drama scholarship. You may be surprised to hear that Morgan Freeman actually turned down his drama scholarship.

After he graduated from Broad Street in 1955, he was offered a partial scholarship to study drama at Jackson State University. Freeman chose instead to join the US Air Force. Actually, he was an automatic tracking radar repairman and even rose to 1st Class Airman.