David Morrissey
Actor
Born June 21, 1964 in 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.
Filmography
Inflicted Kindness
DS Mark Thompson
Tip Toe
Clive
Tip Toe
Clive Goss
Gone
Michael Polly
The Woman in Cabin 10
Thomas Heatherley
Prime Target
Professor Robert Mallinder
Manhunt
Narrator
Slingshot
Sam Napier
Daddy Issues
Malcolm
Parish
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Self - Guest
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Governor (archive footage)
Six Inches of Soil
Narrator (animated sequence)
The Long Shadow
DCS George Oldfield
Gods of Tennis
Narrator
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
Narrator
Britain's Notorious Prisons
Narrator
Dampyr
Gorka
Ellie & Natasia
Dentist
Sherwood
DCS Ian St Clair
The Colour Room
Fred Ridgeway
Between the Covers
Self
The Singapore Grip
Walter Blackett
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Self - Narrator (voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
Narrator
Good Omens
Captain Vincent
Two Tribes
Self
The City and the City
Tyador Borlú
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Britannia
General Aulus Plautius
Lion Country: Night and Day
Narrator (voice)
The Ones Below
Jon
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Harry
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Narrator (voice)
Ronaldo
Dramatic VO (voice)
Rock 'n' Roll America
Narrator
The Missing
Sam Webster
The Driver
Vince McKee
Extant
Tobias Shepherd
Inside No. 9
Martin
The 7.39
Carl Matthews
Doctor Who Explained
Self
Welcome to the Punch
Thomas Geiger
The Hollow Crown
Earl of Northumberland
True Love
Adrian
Earthbound
Bill Norman
London's Burning
Borough Commander
Blitz
Dunlop
The Field of Blood
Murray Devlin
Macbeth
Macbeth
South Riding
Robert Carne
Thorne: Scaredycat
DI Tom Thorne
The Walking Dead
Philip Blake
Thorne
DI Tom Thorne
Cooked
(voice)
Centurion
Bothos
Mrs Mandela
Theunis Swanepoel
Nowhere Boy
Bobby Dykins
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Maurice Jobson
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self
U Be Dead
Dr. Jan Falkowski
Is Anybody There?
Dad
Red Riding
DS Maurice Jobson
Don't Worry About Me
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Jackson Lake
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon
The Water Horse
Captain Thomas Hamilton
Meadowlands
Danny Brogan
Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist
The Reaping
Doug
Five Days
DI Mal Craig
Taking Liberties
Narration
The One Show
Self
Viva Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Basic Instinct 2
Michael Glass
Stoned
Tom Keylock
Derailed
Sam Griffin
The Year London Blew Up
Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Narrator
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice)
Passer By
This World
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self - Narrator (voice)
9mm: Guns and Gangs
Narrator
The Deal
Gordon Brown
State of Play
Stephen Collins
This Little Life
Richie MacGregor
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Self
Out of Control
Mike
Murder
Dave Dewston
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
Linda Green
Pete
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Günther Weber
Born Romantic
Fergus
Some Voices
Pete
The Suicide Club
Henry Joyce
Fanny & Elvis
Rob
Hilary and Jackie
Kiffer Finzi
Our Mutual Friend
Bradley Headstone
The Commissioner
Murray Lomax
Holding On
Shaun
The One That Got Away
Andy "Mac" McNab
Soccer AM
Self
Out of the Blue
DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Finney
Stephen Finney
Being Human
Cyprion's Man
The Knock
Gerry Birch
Framed
DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson
Between the Lines
Waterland
Dick Crick
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Theseus
Clubland
DC Judd
Robin Hood
Little John
The Widowmaker
Rob
Screen One
DC Norman Mills
Agatha Christie's Poirot
John Arbuthnot
Drowning by Numbers
Bellamy
Out of Town
The Traveller
Cause Célèbre
George Bowman
ScreenPlay
Marcus
One Summer
Billy Rizley