×
Loading in progress
  • BIRTH 21/06/1964
  • Country United Kingdom
  • SHOWS 32
  • MOVIES 34

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

David Morrissey

Shows (32)

Prime Target
Prime Target
Professor Robert Mallinder
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead
Philip Blake
Good Omens
Good Omens
Captain Vincent
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot
John Arbuthnot
Daddy Issues
Daddy Issues
Malcolm
The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow
ACC George Oldfield / DCS George Oldfield
Britannia
Britannia
General Aulus Plautius
Extant
Extant
Tobias Shepherd
The Missing
The Missing
Sam Webster
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9
Martin
Sherwood (2022)
Sherwood (2022)
DCS Ian St Clair
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown
Earl of Northumberland
Manhunt (2025)
Manhunt (2025)
Narrator
State of Play
State of Play
Stephen Collins
Blackpool
Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Five Days
Five Days
DI Mal Craig
Sense & Sensibility (2008)
Sense & Sensibility (2008)
Colonel Brandon
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Self - Guest
Thorne
Thorne
Tom Thorne
South Riding
South Riding
Robert Carne
The Field of Blood
The Field of Blood
Murray Devlin
True Love
True Love
Adrian
The 7.39
The 7.39
Carl Matthews
The Driver
The Driver
Vince McKee
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend
Bradley Headstone
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Himself
Zero Hour
Zero Hour
Narrator
Linda Green
Linda Green
Pete
The City & The City
The City & The City
Tyador Borlú
The Singapore Grip
The Singapore Grip
Walter Blackett

Movies (34)

Slingshot
Slingshot
Sam Napier
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Blitz
Blitz
Dunlop
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Jackson Lake
Centurion
Centurion
Bothos
Derailed
Derailed
Sam Griffin
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2
Michael Glass
The Water Horse
The Water Horse
Captain Thomas Hamilton
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Maurice Jobson
Welcome to the Punch
Welcome to the Punch
Thomas Geiger
The Woman in Cabin 10
The Woman in Cabin 10
Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy
Bobby Dykins
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Maurice Jobson
Ronaldo
Ronaldo
Dramatic VO (voice)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Maurice Jobson
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Governor (archive footage)
Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Little John
Dampyr
Dampyr
Gorka
The Reaping
The Reaping
Doug
The Ones Below
The Ones Below
Jon
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Günther Weber
Thorne: Scaredycat
Thorne: Scaredycat
DI Tom Thorne
Some Voices
Some Voices
Pete
Doctor Who Explained
Doctor Who Explained
Self
Waterland
Waterland
Dick Crick
Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers
Bellamy
Viva Blackpool
Viva Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Disaster at Chernobyl
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self - Narrator (voice)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Narrator
The Deal
The Deal
Gordon Brown
U Be Dead
U Be Dead
Dr. Jan Falkowski
Stoned
Stoned
Tom Keylock
Klopp: The Inside Story
Klopp: The Inside Story
Narrator
The Colour Room
The Colour Room
Fred Ridgeway