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David Morrissey
Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born June 21, 1964 (60 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2025 | Prime Target (TV Series) |
| 2024 | Prince William: We Can End Homelessness (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2024 | Slingshot · as Sam Napier |
| 2024 | Daddy Issues (TV Series) · as Malcolm |
| 2024 | The Walking Dead: The Return · as The Governor (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Six Inches of Soil · as Narrator (animated Sequence) |
| 2023 | The Long Shadow (TV Series) · as Acc George Oldfield |
| 2023 | Gods of Tennis (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2023 | Turkey: Empire of Erdogan (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2023 | Britain's Notorious Prisons (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2022 | Dampyr · as Gorka |
| 2022 | Sherwood (2022) (TV Series) · as Dcs Ian St Clair |
| 2021 | The Colour Room · as Fred Ridgeway |
| 2020 | Between the Covers (2020) (TV Series) |
| 2020 | Klopp: The Inside Story · as Narrator |
| 2020 | The Singapore Grip (TV Series) · as Walter Blackett |
| 2020 | A Separate Peace · as John Brown |
| 2019 | Ellie & Natasia (TV Series) · as Dentist |
| 2019 | Good Omens (TV Series) · as Captain Vincent |
| 2018 | The City & The City (TV Series) · as Tyador Borlú |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar · as Mark Antony |
| 2017 | Britannia (TV Series) · as General Aulus Plautius |
| 2017 | Lion Country: Night and Day (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | National Theatre Live: Hangmen · as Harry |
| 2016 | The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Ronaldo · as Dramatic Vo (voice) |
| 2015 | The Ones Below · as Jon |
| 2014 | The Missing (TV Series) · as Sam Webster |
| 2014 | The Driver (TV Series) · as Vince Mckee |
| 2014 | Extant (TV Series) · as Tobias Shepherd |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 (TV Series) · as Martin |
| 2014 | The 7.39 (TV Series) · as Carl Matthews |
| 2014 | Ebola Exposed: The Terrifying Modern Plague · as Narrator |
| 2013 | Welcome to the Punch · as Thomas Geiger |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown (TV Series) · as Earl Of Northumberland |
| 2012 | True Love (TV Series) · as Adrian |
| 2012 | Earthbound · as Bill Norman |
| 2012 | The Making of Richard II · as Earl Of Northumberland |
| 2011 | The Field of Blood (TV Series) · as Murray Devlin |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | South Riding (TV Series) · as Robert Carne |
| 2010 | Thorne: Scaredycat · as Di Tom Thorne |
| 2010 | The Walking Dead (TV Series) · as Philip Blake |
| 2010 | Thorne (TV Series) · as Tom Thorne |
| 2010 | Centurion · as Bothos |
| 2010 | Mrs Mandela · as Theunis Swanepoel |
| 2009 | Nowhere Boy · as Bobby Dykins |
| 2009 | Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop · as Narrator |
| 2009 | U Be Dead · as Dr. Jan Falkowski |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 · as Maurice Jobson |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 · as Maurice Jobson |
| 2009 | Red Riding (TV Series) · as Maurice Jobson |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 · as Maurice Jobson |
| 2008 | Is Anybody There? · as Dad |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor · as Jackson Lake |
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl · as Thomas Howard - Duke Of Norfolk |
| 2008 | Sense & Sensibility (2008) (TV Series) · as Colonel Brandon |
| 2007 | The Water Horse · as Captain Thomas Hamilton |
| 2007 | Cape Wrath (Meadowlands) (TV Series) |
| 2007 | Taking Liberties · as Narration |
| 2007 | The Reaping · as Doug |
| 2007 | Five Days (TV Series) · as Di Mal Craig |
| 2006 | Viva Blackpool · as Ripley Holden |
| 2006 | Basic Instinct 2 · as Michael Glass |
| 2005 | Stoned · as Tom Keylock |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Jackson Lake |
| 2004 | Blackpool (TV Series) · as Ripley Holden |
| 2004 | Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High · as Narrator |
| 2004 | Zero Hour (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2004 | This World (TV Series) |
| 2003 | The Deal · as Gordon Brown |
| 2003 | State of Play (TV Series) · as Stephen Collins |
| 2003 | This Little Life · as Richie Macgregor |
| 2002 | Out of Control · as Mike |
| 2002 | Murder (TV Series) · as Dave Dewston |
| 2001 | Linda Green (TV Series) · as Pete |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin · as Captain Günther Weber |
| 2000 | Born Romantic · as Fergus |
| 2000 | Some Voices · as Pete |
| 2000 | Clocking Off (TV Series) |
| 2000 | The Game of Death · as Henry Joyce |
| 1999 | Fanny and Elvis · as Rob |
| 1999 | Pure Wickedness (TV Series) · as Frank Healy |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen (TV Series) · as Gareth Chapman |
| 1998 | Hilary and Jackie · as Kiffer Finzi |
| 1998 | Our Mutual Friend (TV Series) · as Bradley Headstone |
| 1998 | The Commissioner · as Murray Lomax |
| 1997 | Holding On (TV Series) · as Shaun |
| 1996 | The One That Got Away · as Andy "mac" Mcnab |
| 1995 | Out of the Blue (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Devil's Advocate (TV Series) · as Matthew Salt |
| 1995 | Devil's Advocate · as Matthew Salt |
| 1994 | Finney (TV Series) · as Stephen Finney |
| 1994 | Being Human · as Cyprion's Man |
| 1994 | The Knock (TV Series) · as Gerry Birch |
| 1992 | Framed (TV Series) · as Sgt. Larry Jackson |
| 1992 | Between the Lines (TV Series) |
| 1992 | Waterland · as Dick Crick |
| 1992 | Live the Life You Love · as Cast |
| 1991 | Robin Hood · as Little John |
| 1991 | The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series) · as Theseus |
| 1990 | The Widowmaker · as Rob |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as John Arbuthnot |
| 1988 | Drowning by Numbers · as Bellamy |
| 1987 | Cause célèbre · as George Bowman |
| 1987 | Cause Célèbre (TV Series) · as George Bowman |
| 1986 | Screenplay (1986) (TV Series) · as Judd |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Dc Norman Mills |
| 1983 | One Summer (TV Series) |