David Morrissey
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-06-21
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
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Doctor Who Explained
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Derailed
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The Deal
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Slingshot
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Clubland
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Hilary and Jackie
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Thorne: Scaredycat
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician
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The Water Horse
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Blitz
May 20, 2011
Welcome to the Punch
Mar 15, 2013
Cause Célèbre
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Mrs Mandela
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Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
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The Suicide Club
Jan 13, 2000
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
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Viva Blackpool
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Earthbound
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Is Anybody There?
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
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Black and Blue
Sep 27, 1992
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
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Born Romantic
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The Walking Dead: The Return
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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
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Available Light
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The Widowmaker
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National Theatre Live: Hangmen
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The Ones Below
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Six Inches of Soil
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Some Voices
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Disaster at Chernobyl
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Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
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Being Human
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Gee Gee
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Ronaldo
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
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Fanny & Elvis
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Cooked
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The Year London Blew Up
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Waterland
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Dampyr
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The One That Got Away
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Macbeth
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The Commissioner
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Klopp: The Inside Story
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London's Burning
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Two Tribes
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Out of Town
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The Colour Room
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This Little Life
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The Woman in Cabin 10
The Walking Dead
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Soccer AM
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Blackpool
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The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Nov 02, 2001
Zero Hour
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Between the Lines
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State of Play
May 18, 2003
Five Days
Jan 23, 2007
Meadowlands
Jun 17, 2007
Clocking Off
Jan 23, 2000
Extant
Jul 09, 2014
Sense and Sensibility
Jan 01, 2008
Out of the Blue
May 23, 1995
Holding On
Sep 08, 1997
One Summer
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Meet The Immigrants
Apr 14, 2008
Red Riding
Mar 05, 2009
Thorne
Oct 10, 2010
Framed
Nov 27, 1992
The 7.39
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The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
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Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
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The Field of Blood
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True Love
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The Driver
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Gods of Tennis
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South Riding
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Our Mutual Friend
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Sherwood
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The Missing
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Ellie & Natasia
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
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Rock 'n' Roll America
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Britannia
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The Long Shadow
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This World
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Between the Covers
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Lion Country: Night and Day
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The City and the City
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Pure Wickedness
Sep 14, 1999
The Long Shadow
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Daddy Issues
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Linda Green
Oct 30, 2001
Murder
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Finney
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9mm: Guns and Gangs
Dec 14, 2003
The Hollow Crown
Jun 30, 2012
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
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Good Omens
May 31, 2019
Britain's Notorious Prisons
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Inside No. 9
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The Singapore Grip
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