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.
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The Long Shadow
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Gods of Tennis
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Britain's Notorious Prisons
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Dampyr
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Sherwood
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The Colour Room
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The Singapore Grip
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Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
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A Separate Peace
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Good Omens
2019
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Two Tribes
2019
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The City and the City
2018
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
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The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
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Britannia
2018
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Lion Country: Night and Day
2017
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The Ones Below
2016
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National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
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Ronaldo
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Rock 'n' Roll America
2015
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The Missing
2014
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The Driver
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Extant
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The 7.39
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Doctor Who Explained
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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
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Welcome to the Punch
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The Hollow Crown
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True Love
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Earthbound
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London's Burning
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The Field of Blood
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Macbeth
2011
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South Riding
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Around The World In 60 Mins
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Gee Gee
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Thorne: Scaredycat
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The Walking Dead
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Cooked
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Mrs Mandela
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Nowhere Boy
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Doctor Who Greatest Moments
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
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Meet The Immigrants
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The Water Horse
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2007
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2007
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Taking Liberties
2007
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Viva Blackpool
2006
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Basic Instinct 2
2006
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Stoned
2005
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Derailed
2005
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The Year London Blew Up
2005
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Doctor Who
2005
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Blackpool
2004
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Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004
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Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
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This World
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The Deal
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State of Play
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This Little Life
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Murder
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Born Romantic
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Some Voices
2000
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Clocking Off
2000
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2000
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Fanny & Elvis
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Pure Wickedness
1999
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Hilary and Jackie
1998
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Our Mutual Friend
1998
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The Commissioner
1998
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Holding On
1997
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The One That Got Away
1996
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Out of the Blue
1995
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1994
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1994
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1988
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Out of Town
1988
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Cause Célèbre
1987
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