David Morrissey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

130

Gender

Male

Birthday

1964-06-21 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

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

  • The Woman in Cabin 10

    The Woman in Cabin 10

  • The Walking Dead

    The Walking Dead

  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

  • Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

  • The One Show

    The One Show

  • Good Omens

    Good Omens

  • Inside No. 9

    Inside No. 9

  • Soccer AM

    Soccer AM

  • Prime Target

    Prime Target

  • Extant

    Extant

  • Blackpool

    Blackpool

  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

  • The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

  • The Other Boleyn Girl

    The Other Boleyn Girl

  • Britannia

    Britannia

  • Blitz

    Blitz

  • The Missing

    The Missing

  • Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

  • Between the Lines

    Between the Lines

  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  • Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

  • The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

    The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

  • Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

  • Between the Covers

    Between the Covers

  • Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility

  • The Suicide Club

    The Suicide Club

  • Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High

    Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High

  • Cause Célèbre

    Cause Célèbre

  • Derailed

    Derailed

  • Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

    Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

  • Basic Instinct 2

    Basic Instinct 2

  • Sherwood

    Sherwood

  • The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

  • The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

  • The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

    The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

  • Nowhere Boy

    Nowhere Boy

  • Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

  • State of Play

    State of Play

  • Thorne

    Thorne

  • Drowning by Numbers

    Drowning by Numbers

  • The Water Horse

    The Water Horse

  • Centurion

    Centurion

  • National Theatre Live: Hangmen

    National Theatre Live: Hangmen

  • The Ones Below

    The Ones Below

  • Five Days

    Five Days

  • The Walking Dead: The Return

    The Walking Dead: The Return

  • Macbeth

    Macbeth

  • Cooked

    Cooked

  • U Be Dead

    U Be Dead

  • The Year London Blew Up

    The Year London Blew Up

  • London's Burning

    London's Burning

  • The Reaping

    The Reaping

  • Rob Beckett's Smart TV

    Rob Beckett's Smart TV

  • Dampyr

    Dampyr

  • Slingshot

    Slingshot

  • Daddy Issues

    Daddy Issues

  • This World

    This World

  • Taking Liberties

    Taking Liberties

  • The Widowmaker

    The Widowmaker

  • Is Anybody There?

    Is Anybody There?

  • Waterland

    Waterland

  • Meadowlands

    Meadowlands

  • Zero Hour

    Zero Hour

  • The Deal

    The Deal

  • Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

  • National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

    National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

  • Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

  • South Riding

    South Riding

  • Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend

  • Being Human

    Being Human

  • Earthbound

    Earthbound

  • Two Tribes

    Two Tribes

  • Hilary and Jackie

    Hilary and Jackie

  • Red Riding

    Red Riding

  • Linda Green

    Linda Green

  • Ellie & Natasia

    Ellie & Natasia

  • Ronaldo

    Ronaldo

  • Mrs Mandela

    Mrs Mandela

  • True Love

    True Love

  • Holding On

    Holding On

  • The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

    The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

  • Trust Me - I'm a Politician

    Trust Me - I'm a Politician

  • Viva Blackpool

    Viva Blackpool

  • The 7.39

    The 7.39

  • Born Romantic

    Born Romantic

  • The Driver

    The Driver

  • The Singapore Grip

    The Singapore Grip

  • Doctor Who Greatest Moments

    Doctor Who Greatest Moments

  • The Field of Blood

    The Field of Blood

  • This Little Life

    This Little Life

  • Murder

    Murder

  • Doctor Who Explained

    Doctor Who Explained

  • The Commissioner

    The Commissioner

  • The Storyteller: Greek Myths

    The Storyteller: Greek Myths

  • The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away

  • Fanny & Elvis

    Fanny & Elvis

  • Welcome to the Punch

    Welcome to the Punch

  • The City and the City

    The City and the City

  • Finney

    Finney

  • The Colour Room

    The Colour Room

  • Big Cat

    Big Cat

  • Some Voices

    Some Voices

  • Framed

    Framed

  • One Summer

    One Summer

  • Disaster at Chernobyl

    Disaster at Chernobyl

  • Devil's Advocate

    Devil's Advocate

  • Clubland

    Clubland

  • Out of Control

    Out of Control

  • Rock 'n' Roll America

    Rock 'n' Roll America

  • A Separate Peace

    A Separate Peace

  • Manhunt

    Manhunt

  • Pure Wickedness

    Pure Wickedness

  • Lion Country: Night and Day

    Lion Country: Night and Day

  • Six Inches of Soil

    Six Inches of Soil

  • Britain's Notorious Prisons

    Britain's Notorious Prisons

  • Gods of Tennis

    Gods of Tennis

  • 9mm: Guns and Gangs

    9mm: Guns and Gangs

  • Thorne: Scaredycat

    Thorne: Scaredycat

  • Stoned

    Stoned

  • Turkey: Empire of Erdogan

    Turkey: Empire of Erdogan

  • Out of Town

    Out of Town

  • Klopp: The Inside Story

    Klopp: The Inside Story

  • Available Light

    Available Light

  • Meet The Immigrants

    Meet The Immigrants

  • Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo

    Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo

  • Around The World In 60 Mins

    Around The World In 60 Mins

  • Gee Gee

    Gee Gee

  • Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

    Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

  • Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

    Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express