Acting
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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Also known as | David Mark Morrissey |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | MALE |
Birthday | June 21, 1964 (61 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
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2024 | Slingshot as Sam Napier |
2020 | A Separate Peace as John Brown |
2013 | Doctor Who Explained as Self |
2010 | Centurion as Bothos |
2010 | Thorne: Scaredycat as DI Tom Thorne |
2009 | Nowhere Boy as Bobby Dykins |
2009 | U Be Dead as Dr. Jan Falkowski |
2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk |
2007 | The Reaping as Doug |
2007 | Taking Liberties as Narration |
2006 | Basic Instinct 2 as Michael Glass |
2005 | Derailed as Sam Griffin |
2005 | Stoned as Tom Keylock |
2003 | The Deal as Gordon Brown |
2003 | Trust Me - I'm a Politician as Self |
2002 | Out of Control as Mike |
1998 | Hilary and Jackie as Kiffer Finzi |
1991 | Robin Hood as Little John |
1991 | Clubland as DC Judd |
1988 | Drowning by Numbers as Bellamy |