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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 21, 1964
Place of Birth
Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Also Known As
- David Mark Morrissey
- Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ
- دیوید موریسی
David Morrissey
1.9 Popularity
Biography
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
6.2
Thomas Heatherley
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
6.8
Professor Robert Mallinder
Prime Target
2025
9.0
Narrator
Manhunt
2025
6.2
Sam Napier
Slingshot
2024
6.7
Malcolm
Daddy Issues
2024
5.4
Self - Guest
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
7.3
The Governor (archive footage)
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
0.0
Narrator (animated sequence)
Six Inches of Soil
2024
7.5
DCS George Oldfield
The Long Shadow
2023
7.5
ACC George Oldfield
The Long Shadow
2023
Credits
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Thomas Heatherley
2025
6.2
Prime Target
as Professor Robert Mallinder
2025
6.8
Manhunt
as Narrator
2025
9.0
Slingshot
as Sam Napier
2024
6.2
Daddy Issues
as Malcolm
2024
6.7
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
as Self - Guest
2024
5.4
The Walking Dead: The Return
as The Governor (archive footage)
2024
7.3
Six Inches of Soil
as Narrator (animated sequence)
2024
0.0
The Long Shadow
as DCS George Oldfield
2023
7.5
The Long Shadow
as ACC George Oldfield
2023
7.5
Gods of Tennis
as Narrator
2023
0.0
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
as Narrator
2023
10.0
Britain's Notorious Prisons
as Narrator
2023
0.0
Dampyr
as Gorka
2022
6.2
Ellie & Natasia
as Dentist
2022
6.3
Sherwood
as DCS Ian St Clair
2022
7.0
The Colour Room
as Fred Ridgeway
2021
6.2
Between the Covers
as Self
2020
5.5
The Singapore Grip
as Walter Blackett
2020
5.7
Klopp: The Inside Story
as Narrator
2020
6.5
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
10.0
🎬
A Separate Peace
as John Brown
2020
0.0
Good Omens
as Captain Vincent
2019
8.0
Two Tribes
as Self
2019
6.0
The City and the City
as Tyador Borlú
2018
6.0
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
as Mark Antony
2018
7.5
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.4
Britannia
as General Aulus Plautius
2018
6.9
Lion Country: Night and Day
as Narrator (voice)
2017
7.7
The Ones Below
as Jon
2016
6.0
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
as Harry
2016
8.0
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
as Narrator (voice)
2016
6.3
Ronaldo
as Dramatic VO (voice)
2015
7.0
Rock 'n' Roll America
as Narrator
2015
9.0
🎬
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
as Narrator
2015
5.0
The Missing
as Sam Webster
2014
7.2
The Driver
as Vince McKee
2014
7.1
Extant
as Tobias Shepherd
2014
6.3
Inside No. 9
as Martin
2014
8.0
The 7.39
as Carl Matthews
2014
6.6
Doctor Who Explained
as Self
2013
8.5
🎬
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
as Self
2013
7.6
Welcome to the Punch
as Thomas Geiger
2013
5.9
The Hollow Crown
as Earl of Northumberland
2012
7.4
True Love
as Adrian
2012
7.0
Earthbound
as Bill Norman
2012
4.4
London's Burning
as Borough Commander
2011
0.0
Blitz
as Dunlop
2011
6.2
The Field of Blood
as Murray Devlin
2011
6.3
Macbeth
as Macbeth
2011
6.0
South Riding
as Robert Carne
2011
6.9
🎬
Gee Gee
as Michael
2011
0.0
🎬
Around The World In 60 Mins
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
6.0
The Walking Dead
as Philip Blake
2010
8.1
Thorne: Scaredycat
as DI Tom Thorne
2010
6.3
Thorne
as Tom Thorne
2010
6.5
Cooked
as (voice)
2010
0.0
Centurion
as Bothos
2010
6.2
Mrs Mandela
as Theunis Swanepoel
2010
4.0
Nowhere Boy
as Bobby Dykins
2009
7.2
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as Maurice Jobson
2009
6.7
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Maurice Jobson
2009
6.9
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as Maurice Jobson
2009
7.0
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
as Self
2009
7.0
U Be Dead
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
2009
5.2
Is Anybody There?
as Dad
2009
6.3
Red Riding
as DS Maurice Jobson
2009
6.7
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
as Jackson Lake
2008
7.4
🎬
Meet The Immigrants
2008
0.0
The Other Boleyn Girl
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
2008
6.7
Sense and Sensibility
as Colonel Brandon
2008
7.5
The Water Horse
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
2007
6.5
Meadowlands
as Danny Brogan
2007
6.3
The Reaping
as Doug
2007
5.7
Five Days
as DI Mal Craig
2007
5.9
Taking Liberties
as Narration
2007
6.2
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Viva Blackpool
as Ripley Holden
2006
7.5
Basic Instinct 2
as Michael Glass
2006
5.0
Stoned
as Tom Keylock
2005
5.1
Derailed
as Sam Griffin
2005
6.4
The Year London Blew Up
as Narrator (voice)
2005
8.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
Blackpool
as Ripley Holden
2004
6.8
🎬
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
as Self-Narrator(voice)
2004
0.0
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
as Narrator
2004
8.1
Zero Hour
as Narrator (voice)
2004
7.3
This World
2004
6.0
Disaster at Chernobyl
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
7.5
9mm: Guns and Gangs
as Narrator
2003
0.0
The Deal
as Gordon Brown
2003
6.7
State of Play
as Stephen Collins
2003
7.4
This Little Life
as Richie MacGregor
2003
0.0
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
as Self
2003
0.0
Out of Control
as Mike
2002
1.0
Murder
as Dave Dewston
2002
3.3
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2001
6.0
Linda Green
as Pete
2001
7.0
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as Captain Günther Weber
2001
6.0
Born Romantic
as Fergus
2000
5.9
Some Voices
as Pete
2000
6.0
The Suicide Club
as Henry Joyce
2000
5.3
Fanny & Elvis
as Rob
1999
6.2
🎬
Pure Wickedness
as Frank Healy
1999
2.0
Hilary and Jackie
as Kiffer Finzi
1998
6.5
🎬
Big Cat
as Leo
1998
0.0
Our Mutual Friend
as Bradley Headstone
1998
7.8
The Commissioner
as Murray Lomax
1998
5.7
Holding On
as Shaun
1997
8.0
The One That Got Away
as Andy "Mac" McNab
1996
5.8
Soccer AM
as Self
1995
6.0
Out of the Blue
as D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
1995
0.0
🎬
Devil's Advocate
as Matthew Salt
1995
1.0
Finney
as Stephen Finney
1994
7.0
Being Human
as Cyprion's Man
1994
5.1
Framed
as Sgt. Larry Jackson
1992
6.6
🎬
Black and Blue
as DC Norman Mills
1992
0.0
Between the Lines
1992
5.2
Waterland
as Dick Crick
1992
6.3
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Theseus
1991
8.2
Clubland
as DC Judd
1991
0.0
Robin Hood
as Little John
1991
5.7
The Widowmaker
as Rob
1990
0.0
🎬
Available Light
as Marcus
1990
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as John Arbuthnot
1989
8.2
Drowning by Numbers
as Bellamy
1988
7.0
Out of Town
as The Traveller
1988
6.0
Cause Célèbre
as George Bowman
1987
5.2
One Summer
1983
7.7
🎬
Gone
as Michael Polly
N/A
0.0