David Morrissey
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Morrissey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movies (63)
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
Slingshot
2024
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
Six Inches of Soil
2024
Dampyr
2022
The Colour Room
2021
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020
Klopp: The Inside Story
2020
Two Tribes
2019
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
The Ones Below
2016
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
Ronaldo
2015
Doctor Who Explained
2013
Welcome to the Punch
2013
Earthbound
2012
London's Burning
2011
Blitz
2011
Macbeth
2011
Thorne: Scaredycat
2010
Cooked
2010
Centurion
2010
Mrs Mandela
2010
Nowhere Boy
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
U Be Dead
2009
Is Anybody There?
2009
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
The Water Horse
2007
The Reaping
2007
Taking Liberties
2007
Viva Blackpool
2006
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Stoned
2005
Derailed
2005
The Year London Blew Up
2005
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004
Disaster at Chernobyl
2004
The Deal
2003
This Little Life
2003
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003
Out of Control
2002
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
Born Romantic
2000
Some Voices
2000
The Suicide Club
2000
Fanny & Elvis
1999
Hilary and Jackie
1998
The Commissioner
1998
The One That Got Away
1996
Being Human
1994
Waterland
1992
Clubland
1991
Robin Hood
1991
The Widowmaker
1990
Drowning by Numbers
1988
Out of Town
1988
Cause Célèbre
1987
Inflicted Kindness
TV Shows (58)
Gone
2026
Prime Target
2025
Manhunt
2025
Daddy Issues
2024
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
The Long Shadow
2023
The Long Shadow
2023
Gods of Tennis
2023
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023
Britain's Notorious Prisons
2023
Ellie & Natasia
2022
Sherwood
2022
Between the Covers
2020
The Singapore Grip
2020
Good Omens
2019
The City and the City
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Britannia
2018
Lion Country: Night and Day
2017
Rock 'n' Roll America
2015
The Missing
2014
The Driver
2014
Extant
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
The 7.39
2014
The Hollow Crown
2012
True Love
2012
The Field of Blood
2011
South Riding
2011
The Walking Dead
2010
Thorne
2010
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
Red Riding
2009
Sense and Sensibility
2008
Meadowlands
2007
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Five Days
2007
The One Show
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Blackpool
2004
Zero Hour
2004
This World
2004
9mm: Guns and Gangs
2003
State of Play
2003
Murder
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Linda Green
2001
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Holding On
1997
Soccer AM
1995
Out of the Blue
1995
Finney
1994
The Knock
1994
Framed
1992
Between the Lines
1992
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
One Summer
1983