David Morrissey
Acting • Born 1964-06-21
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
Filmography
134 credits
A Separate Peace
Movie • 2020
John Brown
The Reaping
Movie • 2007
Doug
Basic Instinct 2
Movie • 2006
Michael Glass
Robin Hood
Movie • 1991
Little John
Centurion
Movie • 2010
Bothos
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie • 2008
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Doctor Who Explained
Movie • 2013
Self
Derailed
Movie • 2005
Sam Griffin
Taking Liberties
Movie • 2007
Narration
Nowhere Boy
Movie • 2009
Bobby Dykins
Drowning by Numbers
Movie • 1988
Bellamy
Out of Control
Movie • 2002
Mike
The Deal
Movie • 2003
Gordon Brown
Slingshot
Movie • 2024
Sam Napier
U Be Dead
Movie • 2009
Dr. Jan Falkowski
Stoned
Movie • 2005
Tom Keylock
Clubland
Movie • 1991
DC Judd
Hilary and Jackie
Movie • 1998
Kiffer Finzi
Thorne: Scaredycat
Movie • 2010
DI Tom Thorne
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Movie • 2003
Self
The Water Horse
Movie • 2007
Captain Thomas Hamilton
Blitz
Movie • 2011
Dunlop
Welcome to the Punch
Movie • 2013
Thomas Geiger
Cause Célèbre
Movie • 1987
George Bowman
Mrs Mandela
Movie • 2010
Theunis Swanepoel
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
Movie • 2004
Self-Narrator(voice)
The Suicide Club
Movie • 2000
Henry Joyce
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
Viva Blackpool
Movie • 2006
Ripley Holden
Earthbound
Movie • 2012
Bill Norman
Is Anybody There?
Movie • 2009
Dad
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Movie • 2009
Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Movie • 2009
Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie • 2009
Maurice Jobson
Black and Blue
Movie • 1992
DC Norman Mills
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
Jackson Lake
Around The World In 60 Mins
Movie • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Movie • 2013
Self
Born Romantic
Movie • 2000
Fergus
The Walking Dead: The Return
Movie • 2024
The Governor (archive footage)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Available Light
Movie • 1990
Marcus
The Widowmaker
Movie • 1990
Rob
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Movie • 2016
Harry
The Ones Below
Movie • 2016
Jon
Six Inches of Soil
Movie • 2024
Narrator (animated sequence)
Some Voices
Movie • 2000
Pete
Disaster at Chernobyl
Movie • 2004
Self - Narrator (voice)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Being Human
Movie • 1994
Cyprion's Man
Gee Gee
Movie • 2011
Michael
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Movie • 2001
Captain Günther Weber
Ronaldo
Movie • 2015
Dramatic VO (voice)
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Movie • 2018
Mark Antony
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Movie • 2016
Narrator (voice)
Fanny & Elvis
Movie • 1999
Rob
Cooked
Movie • 2010
(voice)
The Year London Blew Up
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Waterland
Movie • 1992
Dick Crick
Dampyr
Movie • 2022
Gorka
The One That Got Away
Movie • 1996
Andy "Mac" McNab
Macbeth
Movie • 2011
Macbeth
The Commissioner
Movie • 1998
Murray Lomax
Klopp: The Inside Story
Movie • 2020
Narrator
London's Burning
Movie • 2011
Borough Commander
Two Tribes
Movie • 2019
Self
Out of Town
Movie • 1988
The Traveller
The Colour Room
Movie • 2021
Fred Ridgeway
This Little Life
Movie • 2003
Richie MacGregor
The Woman in Cabin 10
Movie • 2025
Thomas Heatherley
Big Cat
Movie • 1998
Leo
The Walking Dead
TV • 2010
Philip Blake
Soccer AM
TV • 1995
Self
Blackpool
TV • 2004
Ripley Holden
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
State of Play
TV • 2003
Stephen Collins
Five Days
TV • 2007
DI Mal Craig
Meadowlands
TV • 2007
Danny Brogan
Extant
TV • 2014
Tobias Shepherd
Sense and Sensibility
TV • 2008
Colonel Brandon
Out of the Blue
TV • 1995
D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
Holding On
TV • 1997
Shaun
One Summer
TV • 1983
Meet The Immigrants
TV • 2008
Thorne
TV • 2010
DI Tom Thorne
Framed
TV • 1992
Sgt. Larry Jackson
The 7.39
TV • 2014
Carl Matthews
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV • 2018
Self - Guest
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
TV • 2023
Narrator
The Field of Blood
TV • 2011
Murray Devlin
True Love
TV • 2012
Adrian
The Driver
TV • 2014
Vince McKee
Gods of Tennis
TV • 2023
Narrator
South Riding
TV • 2011
Robert Carne
Sherwood
TV • 2022
DCS Ian St Clair
The Missing
TV • 2014
Sam Webster
Ellie & Natasia
TV • 2022
Dentist
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
TV • 2009
Self
Rock 'n' Roll America
TV • 2015
Narrator
Britannia
TV • 2018
General Aulus Plautius
The Long Shadow
TV • 2023
DCS George Oldfield
This World
TV • 2004
Between the Covers
TV • 2020
Self
Lion Country: Night and Day
TV • 2017
Narrator (voice)
The City and the City
TV • 2018
Tyador Borlú
Pure Wickedness
TV • 1999
Frank Healy
The Long Shadow
TV • 2023
ACC George Oldfield
Daddy Issues
TV • 2024
Malcolm
Linda Green
TV • 2001
Pete
Murder
TV • 2002
Dave Dewston
Finney
TV • 1994
Stephen Finney
9mm: Guns and Gangs
TV • 2003
Narrator
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Earl of Northumberland
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
TV • 2024
Self - Guest
Good Omens
TV • 2019
Captain Vincent
Britain's Notorious Prisons
TV • 2023
Narrator
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Martin
Devil's Advocate
TV • 1995
Matthew Salt
The Singapore Grip
TV • 2020
Walter Blackett
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
John Arbuthnot
Manhunt
TV • 2025
Narrator
Prime Target
TV • 2025
Professor Robert Mallinder
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV • 1991
Theseus
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Bradley Headstone
Gone
TV • 2026
Michael Polly
Red Riding
TV • 2009
DS Maurice Jobson
The Knock
TV • 1994
Gerry Birch
The Siege
TV • 2026
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self - Panellist
Zero Hour
TV • 2004
Narrator (Voice)
Tip Toe
TV
Clive