David Morrissey
Acting
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
Born: June 21, 1964
Place of Birth: Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Thomas Heatherley
as Professor Robert Mallinder
as Narrator
as Sam Napier
as Malcolm
as Self - Guest
as The Governor (archive footage)
as Narrator (animated sequence)
as DCS George Oldfield
as ACC George Oldfield
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Gorka
as Dentist
as DCS Ian St Clair
as Fred Ridgeway
as Self
as Walter Blackett
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Captain Vincent
as Self
as Tyador Borlú
as Mark Antony
as Self - Guest
as General Aulus Plautius
as Narrator (voice)
as Jon
as Harry
as Narrator (voice)
as Dramatic VO (voice)
as Narrator
as Sam Webster
as Vince McKee
as Tobias Shepherd
as Martin
as Carl Matthews
as Self
as Thomas Geiger
as Earl of Northumberland
as Adrian
as Bill Norman
as Borough Commander
as Dunlop
as Murray Devlin
as Macbeth
as Robert Carne
as Philip Blake
as DI Tom Thorne
as Tom Thorne
as (voice)
as Bothos
as Theunis Swanepoel
as Bobby Dykins
as Maurice Jobson
as Maurice Jobson
as Maurice Jobson
as Self
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
as Dad
as Maurice Jobson
as Jackson Lake
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
as Colonel Brandon
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
as Danny Brogan
as Doug
as DI Mal Craig
as Narration
as Self
as Ripley Holden
as Michael Glass
as Tom Keylock
as Sam Griffin
as Narrator (voice)
as Ripley Holden
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Gordon Brown
as Stephen Collins
as Richie MacGregor
as Self
as Mike
as Dave Dewston
as Self - Guest
as Pete
as Captain Günther Weber
as Fergus
as Pete
as Henry Joyce
as Rob
as Kiffer Finzi
as Bradley Headstone
as Murray Lomax
as Shaun
as Andy "Mac" McNab
as Self
as D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
as Stephen Finney
as Cyprion's Man
as Sgt. Larry Jackson
as Dick Crick
as Theseus
as DC Judd
as Little John
as Rob
as John Arbuthnot
as Bellamy
as The Traveller
as George Bowman