David Morrissey

Known for ActingBorn 1964-06-21 (age 61)Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

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 WikipediaRead more

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Turkey: Empire of Erdogan

Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

The Widowmaker

Manhunt

Rock 'n' Roll America

The Year London Blew Up

Black and Blue

Doctor Who Explained

Six Inches of Soil

Good Omens

Inside No. 9

The Walking Dead

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

Passer By

Sweet Revenge

Out of the Blue

Finney

Out of Town

Our Mutual Friend

Lion Country: Night and Day

Would I Lie to You?

The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

The Long Shadow

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

Sense and Sensibility

The Hollow Crown

The Walking Dead: The Return

Viva Blackpool

Disaster at Chernobyl

Holding On

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Zero Hour

State of Play

The Missing

One Summer

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

The Driver

Nowhere Boy

Linda Green

True Love

Sherwood

Ronaldo

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

Prime Target

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