1964-06-21 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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Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export | Self / Narrator | 2020-08-03 |
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A Separate Peace | John Brown | 2020-05-01 |
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Klopp: The Inside Story | Narrator | 2020-08-03 |
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Two Tribes | Self | 2019-03-25 |
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | 2018-03-22 |
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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On | Narrator (voice) | 2016-02-15 |
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The Ones Below | Jon | 2016-03-11 |
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National Theatre Live: Hangmen | Harry | 2016-03-03 |
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Ronaldo | Dramatic VO (voice) | 2015-11-09 |
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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War | Narrator | 2015-03-11 |
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Doctor Who Explained | Self | 2013-11-01 |
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Welcome to the Punch | Thomas Geiger | 2013-03-15 |
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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead | 2013-10-11 | |
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Earthbound | Bill Norman | 2012-02-06 |
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Blitz | Dunlop | 2011-05-20 |
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Gee Gee | Michael | 2011-01-01 |
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Around The World In 60 Mins | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2011-01-01 |
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London's Burning | Borough Commander | 2011-12-22 |
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Macbeth | Macbeth | 2011-05-06 |
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Centurion | Bothos | 2010-02-15 |
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Thorne: Sleepyhead | Tom Thorne | 2010-10-31 |
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Thorne: Scaredycat | DI Tom Thorne | 2010-10-31 |
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Cooked | (voice) | 2010-05-21 |
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Mrs Mandela | Theunis Swanepoel | 2010-01-25 |
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Is Anybody There? | Dad | 2009-04-17 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 | Maurice Jobson | 2009-02-28 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 | Maurice Jobson | 2009-02-28 |
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U Be Dead | Dr. Jan Falkowski | 2009-09-25 |
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Nowhere Boy | Bobby Dykins | 2009-12-25 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Maurice Jobson | 2009-02-28 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl | Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk | 2008-02-28 |
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | Jackson Lake | 2008-12-25 |
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The Reaping | Doug | 2007-04-05 |
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The Water Horse | Captain Thomas Hamilton | 2007-12-25 |
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Taking Liberties | Narration | 2007-01-01 |
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Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Glass | 2006-03-29 |
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Viva Blackpool | Ripley Holden | 2006-06-10 |
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The Year London Blew Up | Narrator (voice) | 2005-09-01 |
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Derailed | Sam Griffin | 2005-11-11 |
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Stoned | Tom Keylock | 2005-11-18 |
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Disaster at Chernobyl | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2004-01-01 |
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Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High | Narrator | 2004-09-12 |
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Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo | Self-Narrator(voice) | 2004-09-19 |
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The Deal | Gordon Brown | 2003-09-28 |
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This Little Life | Richie MacGregor | 2003-03-19 |
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician | Self | 2003-02-08 |
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Murder | Dave Dewston | 2002-05-01 |
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Out of Control | Mike | 2002-08-18 |
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Captain Günther Weber | 2001-04-18 |
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The Suicide Club | Henry Joyce | 2000-01-13 |
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Born Romantic | Fergus | 2000-09-14 |
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Some Voices | Pete | 2000-08-25 |
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Fanny & Elvis | Rob | 1999-11-19 |
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The Commissioner | Murray Lomax | 1998-02-22 |
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Hilary and Jackie | Kiffer Finzi | 1998-12-30 |
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The One That Got Away | Andy "Mac" McNab | 1996-02-18 |
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Being Human | Cyprion's Man | 1994-05-06 |
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Black and Blue | DC Norman Mills | 1992-09-27 |
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Waterland | Dick Crick | 1992-08-21 |
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Clubland | DC Judd | 1991-08-28 |
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Robin Hood | Little John | 1991-05-13 |
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The Widowmaker | Rob | 1990-12-29 |
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Available Light | Marcus | 1990-09-05 |
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Out of Town | The Traveller | 1988-01-01 |
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Drowning by Numbers | Bellamy | 1988-09-10 |
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Cause célèbre | George Bowman | 1987-08-23 |
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Slingshot | Sam Napier |
