David Morrissey
Acting
Born: June 21, 1964 (age 62) · Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
The Walking Dead
2010
Good Omens
2019
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
Blitz
2011
Centurion
2010
The Water Horse
2007
Derailed
2005
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
The Reaping
2007
Nowhere Boy
2009
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Welcome to the Punch
2013
Photos (4)
Movies (57)
The Woman in Cabin 10
Thomas Heatherley
Basic Instinct 2
Michael Glass
Blitz
Dunlop
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Centurion
Bothos
Derailed
Sam Griffin
The Reaping
Doug
Slingshot
Sam Napier
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Günther Weber
Welcome to the Punch
Thomas Geiger
Robin Hood
Little John
The Water Horse
Captain Thomas Hamilton
Macbeth
Macbeth
Nowhere Boy
Bobby Dykins
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Maurice Jobson
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Governor (archive footage)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Maurice Jobson
Ronaldo
Dramatic VO (voice)
Hilary and Jackie
Kiffer Finzi
Being Human
Cyprion's Man
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Maurice Jobson
The Ones Below
Jon
Dampyr
Gorka
Fanny & Elvis
Rob
Drowning by Numbers
Bellamy
The Deal
Gordon Brown
Waterland
Dick Crick
Earthbound
Bill Norman
The Colour Room
Fred Ridgeway
Born Romantic
Fergus
Mrs Mandela
Theunis Swanepoel
Stoned
Tom Keylock
Some Voices
Pete
Is Anybody There?
Steve
The Commissioner
Murray Lomax
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Jackson Lake
The Widowmaker
Rob
Cause Célèbre
George Bowman
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
The One That Got Away
Andy "Mac" McNab
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Narrator
Taking Liberties
Narration
Viva Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Klopp: The Inside Story
Narrator
This Little Life
Richie MacGregor
Thorne: Scaredycat
DI Tom Thorne
U Be Dead
Dr. Jan Falkowski
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Harry
Out of Town
The Traveller
The Suicide Club
Henry Joyce
Cooked
(voice)
London's Burning
Borough Commander
Out of Control
Mike
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Narrator (voice)
Six Inches of Soil
Narrator (animated sequence)
The Year London Blew Up
Narrator (voice)
Clubland
DC Judd
TV Shows (53)
The Walking Dead
Philip Blake · 33 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
John Arbuthnot · 1 eps
Inside No. 9
Martin · 1 eps
Good Omens
Captain Vincent · 1 eps
Extant
Tobias Shepherd · 10 eps
ScreenPlay
Marcus · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Judd · 1 eps
Between the Lines
1 eps
Tip Toe
Clive Goss · 5 eps
The Hollow Crown
Earl of Northumberland · 1 eps
Prime Target
Professor Robert Mallinder · 3 eps
Gone
Michael Polly · 6 eps
Screen One
DC Norman Mills · 1 eps
Britannia
General Aulus Plautius · 27 eps
Sherwood
DCS Ian St Clair · 12 eps
The Long Shadow
DCS George Oldfield · 1 eps
The Long Shadow
ACC George Oldfield · 5 eps
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon · 3 eps
Daddy Issues
Malcolm · 12 eps
Five Days
DI Mal Craig · 10 eps
The Knock
Gerry Birch · 7 eps
The Missing
Sam Webster · 8 eps
This World
9 eps
State of Play
Stephen Collins · 6 eps
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice) · 4 eps
The City and the City
Tyador Borlú · 4 eps
Thorne
Tom Thorne · 6 eps
Out of the Blue
DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn · 6 eps
Framed
DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson · 4 eps
True Love
Adrian · 1 eps
Blackpool
Ripley Holden · 6 eps
Meadowlands
Danny Brogan · 8 eps
The Singapore Grip
Walter Blackett · 6 eps
Red Riding
DS Maurice Jobson · 3 eps
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Theseus · 1 eps
Ellie & Natasia
Dentist · 1 eps
The 7.39
Carl Matthews · 2 eps
The Driver
Vince McKee · 3 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Bradley Headstone · 3 eps
Linda Green
Pete · 1 eps
South Riding
Robert Carne · 3 eps
The Field of Blood
Murray Devlin · 4 eps
One Summer
Billy Rizley · 5 eps
Murder
Dave Dewston · 4 eps
Finney
Stephen Finney · 6 eps
Holding On
Shaun · 8 eps
Gods of Tennis
Narrator · 3 eps
Manhunt
Narrator · 3 eps
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
Narrator · 2 eps
Britain's Notorious Prisons
Narrator · 2 eps
Lion Country: Night and Day
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
9mm: Guns and Gangs
Narrator · 1 eps
Rock 'n' Roll America
Narrator · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (14)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · 1 eps
The One Show
Self · 1 eps
Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist · 1 eps
Soccer AM
Self · 1 eps
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Between the Covers
Self · 1 eps
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self · 2 eps
Doctor Who Explained
Self
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self - Narrator (voice)
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Self
Two Tribes
Self
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Self - Narrator (voice)
