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 Professor Robert Mallinder
- 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 · The Long Shadow as DCS George Oldfield
- 2023 · The Long Shadow as ACC George Oldfield
- 2023 · Britain's Notorious Prisons as Narrator
- 2022 · Dampyr as Gorka
- 2022 · Ellie & Natasia as Dentist
- 2022 · Sherwood as DCS Ian St Clair
- 2021 · The Colour Room as Fred Ridgeway
- 2020 · Between the Covers as Self
- 2020 · The Singapore Grip as Walter Blackett
- 2019 · Good Omens as Captain Vincent
- 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
- 2016 · National Theatre Live: Hangmen as Harry
- 2015 · Ronaldo as Dramatic VO (voice)
- 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 · The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead as Self
- 2013 · Welcome to the Punch as Thomas Geiger
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Earl of Northumberland
- 2012 · True Love as Adrian
- 2011 · Blitz as Dunlop
- 2011 · The Field of Blood as Murray Devlin
- 2011 · South Riding as Robert Carne
- 2010 · The Walking Dead as Philip Blake
- 2010 · Thorne as Tom Thorne
- 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 1980 as Maurice Jobson
- 2009 · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 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 · 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 · Viva Blackpool as Ripley Holden
- 2006 · Basic Instinct 2 as Michael Glass
- 2005 · Stoned as Tom Keylock
- 2005 · Derailed as Sam Griffin
- 2005 · The Year London Blew Up as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Jackson Lake
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Blackpool as Ripley Holden
- 2004 · Zero Hour as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · This World as
- 2004 · Disaster at Chernobyl as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · 9mm: Guns and Gangs as Narrator
- 2003 · The Deal as Gordon Brown
- 2003 · State of Play as Stephen Collins
- 2003 · This Little Life as Richie MacGregor
- 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 · Some Voices as Pete
- 2000 · Clocking Off as
- 1999 · Fanny & Elvis as Rob
- 1999 · Pure Wickedness as Frank Healy
- 1998 · Hilary and Jackie as Kiffer Finzi
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as Bradley Headstone
- 1998 · The Commissioner as Murray Lomax
- 1997 · Holding On as Shaun
- 1996 · The One That Got Away as Andy "Mac" McNab
- 1995 · Soccer AM as Self
- 1995 · Out of the Blue as D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
- 1994 · Being Human as Cyprion's Man
- 1992 · Framed as Sgt. Larry Jackson
- 1992 · Black and Blue as DC Norman Mills
- 1992 · Between the Lines as
- 1992 · Waterland as Dick Crick
- 1991 · Robin Hood as Little John
- 1990 · The Widowmaker as Rob
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as John Arbuthnot
- 1987 · Cause Célèbre as George Bowman
- 1983 · One Summer as
- Future · The Woman in Cabin 10 as
- 2025 · Manhunt as Narrator
- 2024 · Six Inches of Soil as Narrator (animated sequence)
- 2023 · Gods of Tennis as Narrator
- 2023 · Turkey: Empire of Erdogan as Narrator
- 2020 · Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Klopp: The Inside Story as Narrator
- 2020 · A Separate Peace as John Brown
- 2019 · Two Tribes as Self
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Rock 'n' Roll America as Narrator
- 2015 · Secrets of Mexico's Drug War as Narrator
- 2012 · Earthbound as Bill Norman
- 2011 · London's Burning as Borough Commander
- 2011 · Macbeth as Macbeth
- 2011 · Gee Gee as Michael
- 2011 · Around The World In 60 Mins as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Thorne: Scaredycat as DI Tom Thorne
- 2010 · Cooked as (voice)
- 2008 · Meet The Immigrants as
- 2007 · Taking Liberties as Narration
- 2004 · Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo as Self-Narrator(voice)
- 2004 · Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High as Narrator
- 2003 · Trust Me - I'm a Politician as Self
- 2002 · Out of Control as Mike
- 2000 · The Suicide Club as Henry Joyce
- 1995 · Devil's Advocate as Matthew Salt
- 1994 · Finney as Stephen Finney
- 1991 · Clubland as DC Judd
- 1990 · Available Light as Marcus
- 1988 · Drowning by Numbers as Bellamy
- 1988 · Out of Town as The Traveller