David Morrissey
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
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Prime Target as
- 2024 · Slingshot as Sam Napier
- 2024 · Daddy Issues as Malcolm
- 2024 · Rob Beckett's Smart TV as Self - Guest
- 2024 · The Walking Dead: The Return as The Governor (archive footage)
- 2023 · Gods of Tennis as Narrator
- 2023 · Turkey: Empire of Erdogan as Narrator
- 2023 · Britain's Notorious Prisons as Narrator
- 2022 · Ellie & Natasia as Dentist
- 2021 · The Colour Room as Fred Ridgeway
- 2020 · The Singapore Grip as Walter Blackett
- 2016 · National Theatre Live: Hangmen as Harry
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead as Self
- 2012 · Earthbound as Bill Norman
- 2011 · The Field of Blood as Murray Devlin
- 2011 · South Riding as Robert Carne
- 2007 · Taking Liberties as Narration
- 2006 · Viva Blackpool as Ripley Holden
- 2005 · The Year London Blew Up as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Disaster at Chernobyl as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · 9mm: Guns and Gangs as Narrator
- 2003 · The Deal as Gordon Brown
- 2002 · Murder as Dave Dewston
- 2000 · Some Voices as Pete
- 1999 · Pure Wickedness as Frank Healy
- 1998 · The Commissioner as Murray Lomax
- 1995 · Out of the Blue as
- 1995 · Devil's Advocate as Matthew Salt
- 1994 · Finney as Stephen Finney
- 1994 · Being Human as Cyprion's Man
- 1992 · Framed as Sgt. Larry Jackson
- 1992 · Black and Blue as DC Norman Mills
- 1992 · Waterland as Dick Crick
- 1983 · One Summer as
- Future · The Woman in Cabin 10 as
- 2024 · Six Inches of Soil as Narrator (animated sequence)
- 2023 · The Long Shadow as DCS George Oldfield
- 2023 · The Long Shadow as ACC George Oldfield
- 2022 · Dampyr as Gorka
- 2022 · Sherwood as DCS Ian St Clair
- 2020 · Between the Covers as
- 2020 · Klopp: The Inside Story as Narrator
- 2020 · Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · A Separate Peace as John Brown
- 2019 · Good Omens as Captain Vincent
- 2019 · Two Tribes as Self
- 2018 · The City and the City as Tyador Borlú
- 2018 · National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
- 2018 · The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Britannia as General Aulus Plautius
- 2017 · Lion Country: Night and Day as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · The Ones Below as Jon
- 2015 · Ronaldo as Dramatic VO (voice)
- 2015 · Rock 'n' Roll America as Narrator
- 2015 · Secrets of Mexico's Drug War as Narrator
- 2014 · The Missing as Sam Webster
- 2014 · The Driver as Vince McKee
- 2014 · Extant as Tobias Shepherd
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Martin
- 2014 · The 7.39 as Carl Matthews
- 2013 · Doctor Who Explained as Self
- 2013 · Welcome to the Punch as Thomas Geiger
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Earl of Northumberland
- 2012 · True Love as Adrian
- 2011 · London's Burning as Borough Commander
- 2011 · Blitz as Dunlop
- 2011 · Macbeth as Macbeth
- 2011 · Gee Gee as Michael
- 2011 · Around The World In 60 Mins as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · The Walking Dead as Philip Blake
- 2010 · Thorne: Scaredycat as DI Tom Thorne
- 2010 · Thorne as Tom Thorne
- 2010 · Cooked as (voice)
- 2010 · Centurion as Bothos
- 2010 · Mrs Mandela as Theunis Swanepoel
- 2009 · Nowhere Boy as Bobby Dykins
- 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · U Be Dead as Dr. Jan Falkowski
- 2009 · Is Anybody There? as Dad
- 2009 · Red Riding as Maurice Jobson
- 2009 · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Maurice Jobson
- 2009 · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Maurice Jobson
- 2009 · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 as Maurice Jobson
- 2008 · Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as Jackson Lake
- 2008 · Meet The Immigrants as
- 2008 · The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
- 2008 · Sense and Sensibility as Colonel Brandon
- 2007 · The Water Horse as Captain Thomas Hamilton
- 2007 · Meadowlands as
- 2007 · The Reaping as Doug
- 2007 · Five Days as DI Mal Craig
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · Basic Instinct 2 as Michael Glass
- 2005 · Stoned as Tom Keylock
- 2005 · Derailed as Sam Griffin
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Jackson Lake
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Blackpool as Ripley Holden
- 2004 · Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo as Self-Narrator(voice)
- 2004 · Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High as Narrator
- 2004 · Zero Hour as Narrator
- 2004 · This World as
- 2003 · State of Play as Stephen Collins
- 2003 · This Little Life as Richie MacGregor
- 2003 · Trust Me - I'm a Politician as Self
- 2002 · Out of Control as Mike
- 2002 · Murder as Dave Dewston
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Linda Green as Pete
- 2001 · Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Captain Günther Weber
- 2000 · Born Romantic as Fergus
- 2000 · Clocking Off as
- 2000 · The Suicide Club as Henry Joyce
- 1999 · Fanny & Elvis as Rob
- 1998 · Hilary and Jackie as Kiffer Finzi
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as Bradley Headstone
- 1997 · Holding On as Shaun
- 1996 · The One That Got Away as Andy "Mac" McNab
- 1995 · Soccer AM as Self
- 1992 · Between the Lines as
- 1991 · Clubland as DC Judd
- 1991 · Robin Hood as Little John
- 1990 · The Widowmaker as Rob
- 1990 · Available Light as Marcus
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as John Arbuthnot
- 1988 · Drowning by Numbers as Bellamy
- 1988 · Out of Town as The Traveller
- 1987 · Cause Célèbre as George Bowman