David Morrissey

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	Acting
Most Rating	14.178
Birthday	1964-06-21
Place of Birth	Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Also Known As	David Mark Morrissey, Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ, دیوید موریسی,

A Separate Peace

The Reaping

Basic Instinct 2

Robin Hood

Centurion

The Other Boleyn Girl

Doctor Who Explained

Derailed

Taking Liberties

Nowhere Boy

Drowning by Numbers

Out of Control

The Deal

Slingshot

U Be Dead

Stoned

Clubland

Hilary and Jackie

Thorne: Scaredycat

Trust Me - I'm a Politician

The Water Horse

Blitz

Welcome to the Punch

Cause Célèbre

Mrs Mandela

Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo

The Suicide Club

Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export

Viva Blackpool

Earthbound

Is Anybody There?

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

Black and Blue

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Around The World In 60 Mins

The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

Born Romantic

The Walking Dead: The Return

Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

Available Light

The Widowmaker

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

The Ones Below

Six Inches of Soil

Some Voices

Disaster at Chernobyl

Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High

Being Human

Gee Gee

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Ronaldo

Murder

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

Fanny & Elvis

Cooked

The Year London Blew Up

Waterland

Dampyr

The One That Got Away

Macbeth

The Commissioner

Klopp: The Inside Story

London's Burning

Two Tribes

Out of Town

The Colour Room

This Little Life

The Woman in Cabin 10