David Morrissey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 21, 1964 (age 62)
- Birthplace
- Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. He grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. Learning to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At age 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). Returning to the stage in 2008, he did a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011. As director, Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to novelist Esther Freud, has three children, and is a patron of numerous charities. THEATRE includes Hangmen at the Royal Court; and The Lover / The Collection at Theatre Royal Bath; The End of History at The Royal Court; King John at The Barbican; The School for Scandal and Peer Gynt at The National Theatre; Twelfth Night and Three Days of Rain at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; Much Ado About Nothing in The West End; In a Dark Dark House at The Almedia; Julius Caesar at The Bridge. TELEVISION includes Gone, Daddy Issues, Tip Toe, The Siege, The Walking Dead, Prime Target, Sherwood, Red Riding, State of Play (BAFTA nomination for Best Actor), The Missing, The City and The City, Britannia, Extant, and The Driver (also Executive Producer), The Long Shadow, Inside No.9, The Singapore Grip, Good Omens, The 7.39, Our Mutual Friend, Clocking Off, Holding On, State of Play, The Deal, Viva Blackpool, Doctor Who, Sense and Sensibility, The Hollow Crown, True Love, The Field of Blood, South Riding, Thorne: Sleepyhead/Scaredy Cat, One Summer. FILM includes the upcoming The Beatles biopics, Welcome to the Punch, Nowhere Boy, Centurion, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Woman in Cabin 10, The Colour Room, Slingshot, Dampyr, Blitz, The One’s Below, Hilary & Jackie, Some Voices, Born Romantic, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Derailed, Stoned, The Reaping, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
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Filmography
Inflicted Kindness
Movie · as DS Mark Thompson
The Siege
TV · 1 ep
The Oresteia
Movie · as Christopher Middleton
Gone
TV · as Michael Polly · 6 eps
Tip Toe
TV · as Clive Goss · 5 eps
The Woman in Cabin 10
Movie · as Thomas Heatherley
Manhunt
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps
Prime Target
TV · as Professor Robert Mallinder · 3 eps
Slingshot
Movie · as Sam Napier
The Walking Dead: The Return
Movie · as The Governor (archive footage)
Six Inches of Soil
Movie · as Narrator (animated sequence)
Daddy Issues
TV · as Malcolm · 12 eps
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Britain's Notorious Prisons - Strangeways
Movie · as Narrator
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
TV · as Narrator · 2 eps
Gods of Tennis
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps
The Long Shadow
TV · as DCS George Oldfield, ACC George Oldfield · 1 ep
Britain's Notorious Prisons
TV · as Narrator · 2 eps
Dampyr
Movie · as Gorka
Sherwood
TV · as DCS Ian St Clair · 12 eps
Ellie & Natasia
TV · as Dentist · 1 ep
The Colour Room
Movie · as Fred Ridgeway
A Separate Peace
Movie · as John Brown
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
Movie · as Narrator
Between the Covers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Singapore Grip
TV · as Walter Blackett · 6 eps
Two Tribes
Movie · as Self
Good Omens
TV · as Captain Vincent · 1 ep
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Movie · as Mark Antony
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Britannia
TV · as General Aulus Plautius · 27 eps
The City and the City
TV · as Tyador Borlú · 4 eps
Lion Country: Night and Day
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Movie · as Harry
The Ones Below
Movie · as Jon
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Movie · as Narrator
Ronaldo
Movie · as (voice)
Rock 'n' Roll America
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps
Extant
TV · as Tobias Shepherd · 10 eps
The 7.39
TV · as Carl Matthews · 2 eps
The Driver
TV · as Vince McKee · 3 eps
The Missing
TV · as Sam Webster · 8 eps
Inside No. 9
TV · as Martin · 1 ep
Doctor Who Explained
Movie · as Self
Welcome to the Punch
Movie · as Thomas Geiger
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Movie · as Self
Earthbound
Movie · as Bill Norman
True Love
TV · as Adrian · 1 ep
The Hollow Crown
TV · as Earl of Northumberland · 1 ep
Blitz
Movie · as Dunlop
Around The World In 60 Mins
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gee Gee
Movie · as Michael
Macbeth
Movie · as Macbeth
London's Burning
Movie · as Borough Commander
The Field of Blood
TV · as Murray Devlin · 4 eps
South Riding
TV · as Robert Carne · 3 eps
Centurion
Movie · as Bothos
Thorne: Scaredycat
Movie · as DI Tom Thorne
Mrs Mandela
Movie · as Theunis Swanepoel
Cooked
Movie · as (voice)
The Walking Dead
TV · as Philip Blake · 33 eps
Thorne
TV · as Tom Thorne · 6 eps
Nowhere Boy
Movie · as Bobby Dykins
U Be Dead
Movie · as Dr. Jan Falkowski
Is Anybody There?
Movie · as Steve
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie · as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Movie · as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Movie · as Maurice Jobson
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Red Riding
TV · as DS Maurice Jobson · 3 eps
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie · as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie · as Jackson Lake
Sense and Sensibility
TV · as Colonel Brandon · 3 eps
Meet The Immigrants
TV · 6 eps
The Reaping
Movie · as Doug
Taking Liberties
Movie · as Narration
The Water Horse
Movie · as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Five Days
TV · as DI Mal Craig · 10 eps
Meadowlands
TV · as Danny Brogan · 8 eps
Would I Lie to You?
TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep
Basic Instinct 2
Movie · as Michael Glass
Viva Blackpool
Movie · as Ripley Holden
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Derailed
Movie · as Sam Griffin
Stoned
Movie · as Tom Keylock
The Year London Blew Up
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
Movie · as Self-Narrator(voice)
Disaster at Chernobyl
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Movie · as Narrator
Blackpool
TV · as Ripley Holden · 6 eps
This World
TV · 9 eps
Zero Hour
TV · as Narrator (Voice) · 4 eps
The Deal
Movie · as Gordon Brown
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Movie · as Self
This Little Life
Movie · as Richie MacGregor
State of Play
TV · as Stephen Collins · 6 eps
9mm: Guns and Gangs
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
Out of Control
Movie · as Mike
Murder
TV · as Dave Dewston · 4 eps
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Movie · as Captain Günther Weber
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Linda Green
TV · as Pete · 1 ep
The Suicide Club
Movie · as Henry Joyce
Born Romantic
Movie · as Fergus
Some Voices
Movie · as Pete
Fanny & Elvis
Movie · as Rob
Pure Wickedness
TV · as Frank Healy · 4 eps
Hilary and Jackie
Movie · as Kiffer Finzi
The Commissioner
Movie · as Murray Lomax
Big Cat
Movie · as Leo
Our Mutual Friend
TV · as Bradley Headstone · 3 eps
Holding On
TV · as Shaun · 8 eps
The One That Got Away
Movie · as Andy "Mac" McNab
Into the Fire
TV · as Michael Ride · 3 eps
Soccer AM
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Devil's Advocate
TV · as Matthew Salt · 2 eps
Out of the Blue
TV · as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn · 6 eps
Being Human
Movie · as Cyprion's Man
Finney
TV · as Stephen Finney · 6 eps
The Knock
TV · as Gerry Birch · 7 eps
Black and Blue
Movie · as DC Norman Mills
Waterland
Movie · as Dick Crick
Between the Lines
TV · 1 ep
Framed
TV · as DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson · 4 eps
Robin Hood
Movie · as Little John
Clubland
Movie · as DC Judd
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
Movie · as Theseus
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV · as Theseus · 1 ep
Available Light
Movie · as Marcus
The Widowmaker
Movie · as Rob
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as John Arbuthnot · 1 ep
Screen One
TV · as DC Norman Mills · 1 ep
Drowning by Numbers
Movie · as Bellamy
Out of Town
Movie · as The Traveller
Cause Célèbre
Movie · as George Bowman
ScreenPlay
TV · as Marcus, Judd · 1 ep
One Summer
TV · as Billy Rizley · 5 eps