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David Morrissey

David Morrissey

Birthday: 1964-06-21 | Place of Birth: Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Sherwood

as    DCS Ian St Clair

2021
The Colour Room

as    Fred Ridgeway

2020
The Singapore Grip

as    Walter Blackett

2018
Britannia

as    General Aulus Plautius

2018
The City and the City

as    Tyador Borlú

2016
The Ones Below

as    Jon

2015
Ronaldo

as    Dramatic VO (voice)

2015
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

as    Narrator

2014
The 7:39

as    Carl Matthews

2014
The 7.39

as    Carl Matthews

2014
The Missing

as    Sam Webster

2014
The Driver

as    Vince McKee

2013
The Dead Hour

as    Murray Devlin

2013
Welcome to the Punch

as    Thomas Geiger

2012
Earthbound

as    Bill Norman

2011
Blitz

as    Dunlop

2011
The Field of Blood

as    Murray Devlin

2011
South Riding

as    Robert Carne

2011
Around The World In 60 Mins

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2010
Nowhere Boy

as    Bobby Dykins

2010
Centurion

as    Bothos

2010
Murder on the Orient Express

as    John Arbuthnot

2010
Mrs Mandela

as    Theunis Swanepoel

2010
Thorne: Sleepyhead

as    Tom Thorne

2010
Thorne: Scaredycat

as    Tom Thorne

2010
Thorne

as    Tom Thorne

2009
Is Anybody There?

as    Dad

2009
U Be Dead

as    Dr. Jan Falkowski