David Morrissey

David Morrissey

59 · Born: Jun 21, 1964

Personal Details

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Height 6' 2"
Born Jun 21, 1964 Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Parents
  • Joe Morrissey
  • Joan 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

Career

2024
Slingshot
Slingshot as Sam Napier
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Walking Dead: The Return as The Governor (archive footage)
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2022
Sherwood
Sherwood as DCS Ian St Clair
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2021
The Colour Room
The Colour Room as Fred Ridgeway
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2020
The Singapore Grip
The Singapore Grip as Walter Blackett
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Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 as Martin
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2019
Good Omens
Good Omens as Captain Vincent
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2018
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
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Britannia
Britannia as General Aulus Plautius
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The City and the City
The City and the City as Tyador Borlú
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2017
Lion Country: Night and Day
Lion Country: Night and Day as Narrator (voice)
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2016
The Ones Below
The Ones Below as Jon
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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
The Missing
The Missing as Sam Webster
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2015
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War as Narrator
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Rock 'n' Roll America
Rock 'n' Roll America as Narrator
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Extant
Extant as Tobias Shepherd
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This World
This World
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2014
The 7.39
The 7.39 as Carl Matthews
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The Driver
The Driver as Vince McKee
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2013
Welcome to the Punch
Welcome to the Punch as Thomas Geiger
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2012
Earthbound
Earthbound as Bill Norman
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True Love
True Love as Adrian
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The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead as Philip Blake
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2011
London's Burning
London's Burning as Borough Commander
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Blitz
Blitz as Dunlop
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The Field of Blood
The Field of Blood as Murray Devlin
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South Riding
South Riding as Robert Carne
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2010
Centurion
Centurion as Bothos
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Thorne: Scaredycat
Thorne: Scaredycat as DI Tom Thorne
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Cooked
Cooked as (voice)
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Mrs Mandela
Mrs Mandela as Theunis Swanepoel
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Thorne: Sleepyhead
Thorne: Sleepyhead as Tom Thorne
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Poirot
Poirot as John Arbuthnot
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2009
Is Anybody There?
Is Anybody There? as Dad
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Maurice Jobson
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 as Maurice Jobson
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Maurice Jobson
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Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy as Bobby Dykins
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U Be Dead
U Be Dead as Dr. Jan Falkowski
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Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop
Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop as Narrator
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Red Riding
Red Riding
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2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who as Jackson Lake
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Sense & Sensibility
Sense & Sensibility as Colonel Brandon
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2007
Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties as Narration
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The Water Horse
The Water Horse as Captain Thomas Hamilton
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The Reaping
The Reaping as Doug
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Meadowlands
Meadowlands
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Five Days
Five Days as DI Mal Craig
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2006
Viva Blackpool
Viva Blackpool as Ripley Holden
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Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2 as Michael Glass
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2005
The Year London Blew Up: 1974
The Year London Blew Up: 1974 as Narrator (voice)
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Derailed
Derailed as Sam Griffin
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Stoned
Stoned as Tom Keylock
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2004
Blackpool
Blackpool as Ripley Holden
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Zero Hour
Zero Hour as Narrator
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2003
This Little Life
This Little Life as Richie MacGregor
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The Deal
The Deal as Gordon Brown
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State of Play
State of Play as Stephen Collins
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2002
Out of Control
Out of Control as Mike
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2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Captain Günther Weber
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2000
Born Romantic
Born Romantic as Fergus
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The Game of Death
The Game of Death as Henry Joyce
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Some Voices
Some Voices as Pete
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Clocking Off
Clocking Off
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1999
Fanny and Elvis
Fanny and Elvis as Rob
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1998
Hilary and Jackie
Hilary and Jackie as Kiffer Finzi
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The Commissioner
The Commissioner as Murray Lomax
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend as Bradley Headstone
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1997
Holding On
Holding On as Shaun
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1996
The One That Got Away
The One That Got Away as Andy "Mac" McNab
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1992
Waterland
Waterland as Dick Crick
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Framed
Framed
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1991
Robin Hood
Robin Hood as Little John
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1990
The Widowmaker
The Widowmaker as Rob
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1988
Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers as Bellamy
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1987
Cause célèbre
Cause célèbre as George Bowman
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1983
One Summer
One Summer
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2023
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C
2020
2019
Two Tribes
Two Tribes
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2011
Around the World in 60 Minutes
2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2004
Zero Hour
Zero Hour
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2009
Don't Worry About Me
Don't Worry About Me as Director
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2010
Thorne: Sleepyhead
Thorne: Sleepyhead as Creator
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