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.
as DS Mark Thompson
as Christopher Middleton
as Clive Goss(5 eps)
as Michael Polly(6 eps)
as Thomas Heatherley
as Professor Robert Mallinder(3 eps)
as Narrator(3 eps)
as Sam Napier
as Malcolm(12 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as The Governor (archive footage)
as Narrator (animated sequence)
as DCS George Oldfield(1 ep)
as ACC George Oldfield(5 eps)
as Narrator(3 eps)
as Narrator(2 eps)
as Narrator
as Narrator(2 eps)
as Gorka
as Dentist(1 ep)
as DCS Ian St Clair(12 eps)
as Fred Ridgeway
as Self(1 ep)
as Walter Blackett(6 eps)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as John Brown
as Captain Vincent(1 ep)
as Self
as Tyador Borlú(4 eps)
as Mark Antony
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as General Aulus Plautius(27 eps)
as Narrator (voice)(3 eps)
as Jon
as Harry
as Narrator (voice)
as (voice)
as Narrator(3 eps)
as Narrator
as Sam Webster(8 eps)
as Vince McKee(3 eps)
as Tobias Shepherd(10 eps)
as Martin(1 ep)
as Carl Matthews(2 eps)
as Self
as Thomas Geiger
as Earl of Northumberland(1 ep)
as Adrian(1 ep)
as Bill Norman
as Borough Commander
as Dunlop
as Murray Devlin(4 eps)
as Macbeth
as Robert Carne(3 eps)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Michael
as DI Tom Thorne
as Philip Blake(33 eps)
as Tom Thorne(6 eps)
as (voice)
as Bothos
as Theunis Swanepoel
as Bobby Dykins
as Maurice Jobson
as Maurice Jobson
as Maurice Jobson
as Self(2 eps)
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
as Steve
as DS Maurice Jobson(3 eps)
as Jackson Lake
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
as Colonel Brandon(3 eps)
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
as Danny Brogan(8 eps)
as Self - Panellist(1 ep)
as Doug
as DI Mal Craig(10 eps)
as Narration
as Self(1 ep)
as Ripley Holden
as Michael Glass
as Tom Keylock
as Sam Griffin
as Narrator (voice)
as Self(1 ep)
as Ripley Holden(6 eps)
as Self-Narrator(voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator (Voice)(4 eps)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator(1 ep)
as Gordon Brown
as Stephen Collins(6 eps)
as Richie MacGregor
as Self
as Mike
as Dave Dewston(4 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Pete(1 ep)
as Captain Günther Weber
as Fergus
as Pete
as Henry Joyce
as Rob
as Frank Healy(4 eps)
as Kiffer Finzi
as Leo
as Bradley Headstone(3 eps)
as Murray Lomax
as Shaun(8 eps)
as Andy "Mac" McNab
as Michael Ride(3 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn(6 eps)
as Matthew Salt(2 eps)
as Stephen Finney(6 eps)
as Cyprion's Man
as Gerry Birch(7 eps)
as DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson(4 eps)
as DC Norman Mills
as Dick Crick
as Theseus(1 ep)
as DC Judd
as Little John
as Rob
as Marcus
as DC Norman Mills(1 ep)
as John Arbuthnot(1 ep)
as Bellamy
as The Traveller
as George Bowman
as Marcus(1 ep)
as Judd(1 ep)
as Billy Rizley(5 eps)
