person

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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A Separate Peace

May 01, 2020

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The Reaping

Apr 05, 2007

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Basic Instinct 2

Mar 29, 2006

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Robin Hood

May 13, 1991

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Centurion

Feb 15, 2010

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The Other Boleyn Girl

Feb 28, 2008

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Doctor Who Explained

Nov 01, 2013

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Derailed

Nov 11, 2005

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Taking Liberties

Jan 01, 2007

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Nowhere Boy

Dec 25, 2009

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Drowning by Numbers

Sep 10, 1988

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Out of Control

Aug 18, 2002

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The Deal

Sep 28, 2003

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Slingshot

Aug 30, 2024

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U Be Dead

Jul 05, 2009

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Stoned

Nov 18, 2005

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Clubland

Aug 28, 1991

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Hilary and Jackie

Dec 30, 1998

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Thorne: Scaredycat

Oct 31, 2010

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Trust Me - I'm a Politician

Feb 08, 2003

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The Water Horse

Dec 25, 2007

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Blitz

May 20, 2011

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Welcome to the Punch

Mar 15, 2013

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Cause Célèbre

Aug 23, 1987

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Mrs Mandela

Jan 25, 2010

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Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo

Sep 19, 2004

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The Suicide Club

Jan 13, 2000

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Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

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Viva Blackpool

Jun 10, 2006

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Earthbound

Feb 06, 2012

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Is Anybody There?

Apr 17, 2009

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Nov 11, 2009

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

Nov 11, 2009

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Black and Blue

Sep 27, 1992

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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Dec 25, 2008

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Around The World In 60 Mins

Jan 01, 2011

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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

Oct 11, 2013

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Born Romantic

Sep 14, 2000

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The Walking Dead: The Return

Feb 15, 2024

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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

Mar 11, 2015

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Available Light

Sep 05, 1990

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The Widowmaker

Dec 29, 1990

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National Theatre Live: Hangmen

Mar 03, 2016

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The Ones Below

Mar 11, 2016

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Six Inches of Soil

Jan 04, 2024

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Some Voices

Aug 25, 2000

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Disaster at Chernobyl

Jan 01, 2004

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Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High

Sep 12, 2004

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Being Human

May 06, 1994

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Gee Gee

Jan 01, 2011

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Apr 18, 2001

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Ronaldo

Nov 09, 2015

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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

Mar 22, 2018

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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

Feb 15, 2016

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Fanny & Elvis

Nov 19, 1999

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Cooked

May 21, 2010

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The Year London Blew Up

Sep 01, 2005

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63

Waterland

Aug 21, 1992

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Dampyr

Oct 28, 2022

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The One That Got Away

Feb 18, 1996

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Macbeth

May 06, 2011

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The Commissioner

Feb 22, 1998

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Klopp: The Inside Story

Aug 03, 2020

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London's Burning

Dec 22, 2011

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Two Tribes

Mar 25, 2019

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Out of Town

Jan 01, 1988

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The Colour Room

Nov 12, 2021

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This Little Life

Mar 19, 2003

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The Woman in Cabin 10

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81

The Walking Dead

Oct 31, 2010

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Soccer AM

Aug 12, 1995

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Blackpool

Nov 11, 2004

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The One Show

Aug 14, 2006

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59

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Nov 02, 2001

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72

Zero Hour

Aug 29, 2004

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56

Between the Lines

Sep 04, 1992

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75

State of Play

May 18, 2003

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57

Five Days

Jan 23, 2007

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63

Meadowlands

Jun 17, 2007

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74

Clocking Off

Jan 23, 2000

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63

Extant

Jul 09, 2014

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75

Sense and Sensibility

Jan 01, 2008

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Out of the Blue

May 23, 1995

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80

Holding On

Sep 08, 1997

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77

One Summer

Aug 07, 1983

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Meet The Immigrants

Apr 14, 2008

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Red Riding

Mar 05, 2009

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Thorne

Oct 10, 2010

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Framed

Nov 27, 1992

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The 7.39

Jan 06, 2014

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The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Mar 06, 2018

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Turkey: Empire of Erdogan

May 10, 2023

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The Field of Blood

May 08, 2011

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True Love

Jun 17, 2012

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The Driver

Sep 23, 2014

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Gods of Tennis

Jun 04, 2023

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South Riding

Feb 20, 2011

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Our Mutual Friend

Mar 09, 1998

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Sherwood

Jun 13, 2022

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The Missing

Oct 28, 2014

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Ellie & Natasia

Jun 21, 2022

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Jan 03, 2005

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Doctor Who Greatest Moments

Aug 20, 2009

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Rock 'n' Roll America

Jul 03, 2015

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Britannia

Jan 18, 2018

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The Long Shadow

Sep 25, 2023

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This World

Jan 04, 2004

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Between the Covers

Oct 09, 2020

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Lion Country: Night and Day

Feb 05, 2017

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The City and the City

Apr 06, 2018

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Pure Wickedness

Sep 14, 1999

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The Long Shadow

Sep 25, 2023

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Daddy Issues

Aug 15, 2024

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Linda Green

Oct 30, 2001

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Murder

May 29, 2002

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Finney

Nov 17, 1994

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9mm: Guns and Gangs

Dec 14, 2003

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The Hollow Crown

Jun 30, 2012

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Rob Beckett's Smart TV

Feb 29, 2024

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Good Omens

May 31, 2019

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Britain's Notorious Prisons

Jan 12, 2023

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Inside No. 9

Feb 05, 2014

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Devil's Advocate

Jan 04, 1995

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The Singapore Grip

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Jan 08, 1989

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Manhunt

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Prime Target

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The Storyteller: Greek Myths

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