David Morrissey
Acting
Born 1964-06-21
Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
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David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 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 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). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011.
As a 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 the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities.
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Acting
57 credits
The Walking Dead
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The One Show
Good Omens
Inside No. 9
Soccer AM
Would I Lie to You?
Extant
ScreenPlay
The Woman in Cabin 10
Gone
The Hollow Crown
Britannia
Prime Target
Tip Toe
The Missing
Sense and Sensibility
Screen One
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Sherwood
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Basic Instinct 2
Five Days
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Long Shadow
The Reaping
Daddy Issues
The Knock
The Water Horse
Between the Covers
State of Play
Centurion
Blitz
Slingshot
Nowhere Boy
The Singapore Grip
Red Riding
Thorne
Zero Hour
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Derailed
Out of the Blue
True Love
The Driver
Blackpool
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Meadowlands
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Ellie & Natasia
Linda Green
Our Mutual Friend
The City and the City
Ronaldo
South Riding
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
The 7.39
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