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.
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Filmography
all 138
Movies 73
TV Shows 65
self 22
Narrator 11
Director 3
Voice 2
Producer 1
Slingshot (2024)
Parish (2024)
The Walking Dead: The Return (2024)
The Long Shadow (2023)
Gods of Tennis (2023)
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan (2023)
Britain's Notorious Prisons (2023)
Dampyr (2022)
Ellie & Natasia (2022)
Sherwood (2022)
The Colour Room (2021)
Between the Covers (2020)
The Singapore Grip (2020)
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export (2020)
Jurgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export (2020)
Klopp: The Inside Story (2020)
A Separate Peace (2020)
Good Omens (2019)
Missing or Murdered (2019)
Two Tribes (2019)
The City and the City (2018)
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
Dinnerladies Diaries (2018)
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer (2018)
Britannia (2018)
Lion Country: Night and Day (2017)
The Ones Below (2016)
National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On (2016)
Ronaldo (2015)
Rock 'n' Roll America (2015)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War (2015)
The Missing (2014)
The Driver (2014)
Extant (2014)
Inside No. 9 (2014)
The 7.39 (2014)
Doctor Who Explained (2013)
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead (2013)
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
The Hollow Crown (2012)
True Love (2012)
Earthbound (2012)
London's Burning (2011)
Blitz (2011)
The Field of Blood (2011)
Macbeth (2011)
South Riding (2011)
Gee Gee (2011)
Around The World In 60 Mins (2011)
The Walking Dead (2010)
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Thorne (2010)
Cooked (2010)
Centurion (2010)
Mrs Mandela (2010)
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Coastline Cops (2009)
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop (2009)
Doctor Who Greatest Moments (2009)
U Be Dead (2009)
Is Anybody There? (2009)
Red Riding (2009)
Don't Worry About Me (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)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
Meet The Immigrants (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
The Water Horse (2007)
Meadowlands (2007)
The Reaping (2007)
Five Days (2007)
Warlords (2007)
Taking Liberties (2007)
The One Show (2006)
Viva Blackpool (2006)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Stoned (2005)
Derailed (2005)
The Year London Blew Up (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
Blackpool (2004)
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo (2004)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High (2004)
Zero Hour (2004)
Passer By (2004)
This World (2004)
Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
9mm: Guns and Gangs (2003)
The Deal (2003)
State of Play (2003)
This Little Life (2003)
Trust Me - I'm a Politician (2003)
Out of Control (2002)
Murder (2002)
Murder (2002)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
Linda Green (2001)
Sweet Revenge (2001)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Born Romantic (2000)
Some Voices (2000)
Clocking Off (2000)
The Suicide Club (2000)
Pattali (1999)
Fanny & Elvis (1999)
Pure Wickedness (1999)
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
The Commissioner (1998)
Holding On (1997)
The One That Got Away (1996)
Soccer AM (1995)
Out of the Blue (1995)
Devil's Advocate (1995)
Finney (1994)
Being Human (1994)
Framed (1992)
Black and Blue (1992)
Between the Lines (1992)
Waterland (1992)
Clubland (1991)
Robin Hood (1991)
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
The Widowmaker (1990)
Available Light (1990)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Out of Town (1988)
Cause célèbre (1987)
One Summer (1983)
Prime Target
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daddy Issues
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1964-06-21 (59 years old)
Birth PlaceKensington, United Kingdom
Height188-centimeter
SpouseEsther Freud
ChildrenAnna Morrissey, Albie Morrissey
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsDavid Mark Morrissey, Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ
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