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. He grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. Learning to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At age 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 (RADA) 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). Returning to the stage in 2008, he did a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011. As 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 novelist Esther Freud, has three children, and is a patron of numerous charities. THEATRE includes Hangmen at the Royal Court; and The Lover / The Collection at Theatre Royal Bath; The End of History at The Royal Court; King John at The Barbican; The School for Scandal and Peer Gynt at The National Theatre; Twelfth Night and Three Days of Rain at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; Much Ado About Nothing in The West End; In a Dark Dark House at The Almedia; Julius Caesar at The Bridge. TELEVISION includes Gone, Daddy Issues, Tip Toe, The Siege, The Walking Dead, Prime Target, Sherwood, Red Riding, State of Play (BAFTA nomination for Best Actor), The Missing, The City and The City, Britannia, Extant, and The Driver (also Executive Producer), The Long Shadow, Inside No.9, The Singapore Grip, Good Omens, The 7.39, Our Mutual Friend, Clocking Off, Holding On, State of Play, The Deal, Viva Blackpool, Doctor Who, Sense and Sensibility, The Hollow Crown, True Love, The Field of Blood, South Riding, Thorne: Sleepyhead/Scaredy Cat, One Summer. FILM includes the upcoming The Beatles biopics, Welcome to the Punch, Nowhere Boy, Centurion, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Woman in Cabin 10, The Colour Room, Slingshot, Dampyr, Blitz, The One’s Below, Hilary & Jackie, Some Voices, Born Romantic, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Derailed, Stoned, The Reaping, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
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 (5)
Movies (60)
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
The Woman in Cabin 10
Thomas Heatherley
Slingshot
Sam Napier
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Günther Weber
Basic Instinct 2
Michael Glass
The Reaping
Doug
Derailed
Sam Griffin
The Water Horse
Captain Thomas Hamilton
Nowhere Boy
Bobby Dykins
Blitz
Dunlop
Welcome to the Punch
Thomas Geiger
Centurion
Bothos
Drowning by Numbers
Bellamy
Dampyr
Gorka
Hilary and Jackie
Kiffer Finzi
Waterland
Dick Crick
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Jackson Lake
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Harry
Viva Blackpool
Ripley Holden
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Maurice Jobson
Robin Hood
Little John
The Ones Below
Jon
Being Human
Cyprion's Man
The Oresteia
Christopher Middleton
Fanny & Elvis
Rob
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Governor (archive footage)
Ronaldo
(voice)
Is Anybody There?
Steve
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Maurice Jobson
Earthbound
Bill Norman
Some Voices
Pete
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
Theseus
Stoned
Tom Keylock
The Deal
Gordon Brown
Cause Célèbre
George Bowman
Thorne: Scaredycat
DI Tom Thorne
The Colour Room
Fred Ridgeway
The One That Got Away
Andy "Mac" McNab
Born Romantic
Fergus
Macbeth
Macbeth
Out of Town
The Traveller
This Little Life
Richie MacGregor
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Narrator
The Commissioner
Murray Lomax
U Be Dead
Dr. Jan Falkowski
Mrs Mandela
Theunis Swanepoel
The Suicide Club
Henry Joyce
The Year London Blew Up
Narrator (voice)
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Narrator (voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
Narrator
Out of Control
Mike
The Widowmaker
Rob
London's Burning
Borough Commander
Too Far Gone
Philip Blake (The Govenor)
Six Inches of Soil
Narrator (animated sequence)
Taking Liberties
Narration
Cooked
(voice)
Clubland
DC Judd
TV Shows (53)
The Walking Dead
Philip Blake · 33 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
John Arbuthnot · 1 eps
Good Omens
Captain Vincent · 1 eps
Inside No. 9
Martin · 1 eps
Extant
Tobias Shepherd · 10 eps
The Missing
Sam Webster · 8 eps
The Hollow Crown
Earl of Northumberland · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Marcus · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Judd · 1 eps
Britannia
General Aulus Plautius · 27 eps
Gone
Michael Polly · 6 eps
Prime Target
Professor Robert Mallinder · 3 eps
Between the Lines
1 eps
Screen One
DC Norman Mills · 1 eps
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon · 3 eps
Sherwood
DCS Ian St Clair · 12 eps
This World
9 eps
Tip Toe
Clive Goss · 5 eps
Daddy Issues
Malcolm · 12 eps
Five Days
DI Mal Craig · 10 eps
State of Play
Stephen Collins · 6 eps
The Long Shadow
DCS George Oldfield · 1 eps
The Long Shadow
ACC George Oldfield · 5 eps
Thorne
Tom Thorne · 6 eps
Out of the Blue
DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn · 6 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Bradley Headstone · 3 eps
Blackpool
Ripley Holden · 6 eps
Zero Hour
Narrator (Voice) · 4 eps
The Knock
Gerry Birch · 7 eps
Red Riding
DS Maurice Jobson · 3 eps
The Driver
Vince McKee · 3 eps
The Singapore Grip
Walter Blackett · 6 eps
South Riding
Robert Carne · 3 eps
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Theseus · 1 eps
The 7.39
Carl Matthews · 2 eps
Meadowlands
Danny Brogan · 8 eps
Linda Green
Pete · 1 eps
Gods of Tennis
Narrator · 3 eps
True Love
Adrian · 1 eps
The City and the City
Tyador Borlú · 4 eps
Ellie & Natasia
Dentist · 1 eps
One Summer
Billy Rizley · 5 eps
Holding On
Shaun · 8 eps
The Field of Blood
Murray Devlin · 4 eps
Murder
Dave Dewston · 4 eps
Framed
DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson · 4 eps
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
Narrator · 2 eps
Finney
Stephen Finney · 6 eps
Lion Country: Night and Day
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Rock 'n' Roll America
Narrator · 3 eps
Manhunt
Narrator · 3 eps
Britain's Notorious Prisons
Narrator · 2 eps
9mm: Guns and Gangs
Narrator · 1 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
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
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
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Self
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Self - Narrator (voice)
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self - Narrator (voice)
Two Tribes
Self
