David Morrissey

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1964-06-21 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

Also Known As David Mark Morrissey, Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ

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

Known For

Actor

2024
Slingshot

as Sam Napier

2024
The Walking Dead: The Return

as The Governor (archive footage)

2024
Six Inches of Soil

as Narrator (animated sequence)

2024
Daddy Issues

as Malcolm

2024
Rob Beckett's Smart TV

as Self - Guest

2023
The Long Shadow

as DCS George Oldfield

2023
The Long Shadow

as ACC George Oldfield

2023
Gods of Tennis

as Narrator

2022
Dampyr

as Gorka

2022
Ellie & Natasia

as Dentist

2022
Sherwood

as DCS Ian St Clair

2021
The Colour Room

as Fred Ridgeway

2020
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
2020
A Separate Peace

as John Brown

2020
The Singapore Grip

as Walter Blackett

2019
Two Tribes

as Self

2019
Good Omens

as Captain Vincent

2018
The City and the City

as Tyador Borlú

2018
Britannia

as General Aulus Plautius

2017
Lion Country: Night and Day

as Narrator (voice)

2016
2015
Ronaldo

as Dramatic VO (voice)

2015
2014
The Missing

as Sam Webster

2014
The Driver

as Vince McKee

2014
Extant

as Tobias Shepherd

2014
Inside No. 9

as Martin

2014
The 7.39

as Carl Matthews

2013
Welcome to the Punch

as Thomas Geiger

2012
Earthbound

as Bill Norman

2012
The Hollow Crown

as Earl of Northumberland

2012
True Love

as Adrian

2011
London's Burning

as Borough Commander

2011
Blitz

as Dunlop

2011
Macbeth

as Macbeth

2011
Around The World In 60 Mins

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2011
Gee Gee

as Michael

2011
The Field of Blood

as Murray Devlin

2011
South Riding

as Robert Carne

2010
Thorne: Scaredycat

as DI Tom Thorne

2010
Cooked

as (voice)

2010
Centurion

as Bothos

2010
Mrs Mandela

as Theunis Swanepoel

2010
The Walking Dead

as Philip Blake

2010
Thorne

as Tom Thorne

2009
Nowhere Boy

as Bobby Dykins

2009
U Be Dead

as Dr. Jan Falkowski

2009
Red Riding

as Maurice Jobson

2008
2008
The Other Boleyn Girl

as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk

2008
Sense and Sensibility

as Colonel Brandon

2007
The Water Horse

as Captain Thomas Hamilton

2007
The Reaping

as Doug

2007
Taking Liberties

as Narration

2007
Five Days

as DI Mal Craig

2006
Viva Blackpool

as Ripley Holden

2006
Basic Instinct 2

as Michael Glass

2006
The One Show

as Self

2005
Stoned

as Tom Keylock

2005
Derailed

as Sam Griffin

2005
The Year London Blew Up

as Narrator (voice)

2005
Doctor Who

as Jackson Lake

2004
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo

as Self-Narrator(voice)

2004
Disaster at Chernobyl

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2004
Blackpool

as Ripley Holden

2004
Zero Hour

as Narrator

2003
The Deal

as Gordon Brown

2003
This Little Life

as Richie MacGregor

2003
2003
State of Play

as Stephen Collins

2002
2002
Murder

as Dave Dewston

2002
Murder

as Dave Dewston

2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

as Captain Günther Weber

2001
Linda Green

as Pete

2000
Born Romantic

as Fergus

2000
Some Voices

as Pete

2000
The Suicide Club

as Henry Joyce

1999
1999
Pure Wickedness

as Frank Healy

1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Kiffer Finzi

1998
The Commissioner

as Murray Lomax

1998
Our Mutual Friend

as Bradley Headstone

1997
Holding On

as Shaun

1996
The One That Got Away

as Andy "Mac" McNab

1995
Soccer AM

as Self

1995
Devil's Advocate

as Matthew Salt

1994
Being Human

as Cyprion's Man

1994
Finney

as Stephen Finney

1992
Black and Blue

as DC Norman Mills

1992
Waterland

as Dick Crick

1992
Framed

as Sgt. Larry Jackson

1991
Clubland

as DC Judd

1991
Robin Hood

as Little John

1990
1990
Available Light

as Marcus

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as John Arbuthnot

1988
1988
Out of Town

as The Traveller

1987
Cause Célèbre

as George Bowman

Director

2009
2004
Passer By

as Director

2001
Sweet Revenge

as Director

Sound

2004
Zero Hour

as Vocal Coach

Producer

2024
Parish

as Executive Producer

Creator

2010
Thorne

as Creator