David Morrissey
Known for Acting · 136 credits
- Born
- 1964-06-21 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
- Also known as
- David Mark Morrissey · Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ · دیوید موریسی
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (64)
The Walking Dead
2010
as Philip Blake
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as John Arbuthnot
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self
Good Omens
2019
as Captain Vincent
Inside No. 9
2014
as Martin
Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self - Panellist
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Earl of Northumberland
Soccer AM
1995
as Self
ScreenPlay
1986
as Marcus / Judd
Extant
2014
as Tobias Shepherd
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Britannia
2018
as General Aulus Plautius
Between the Lines
1992
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
The Missing
2014
as Sam Webster
Tip Toe
2026
as Clive
Screen One
1989
as DC Norman Mills
Prime Target
2025
as Professor Robert Mallinder
Gone
2026
as Michael Polly
Sherwood
2022
as DCS Ian St Clair
This World
2004
The Long Shadow
2023
as DCS George Oldfield / ACC George Oldfield
Sense and Sensibility
2008
as Colonel Brandon
Five Days
2007
as DI Mal Craig
Between the Covers
2020
as Self
The Knock
1994
as Gerry Birch
State of Play
2003
as Stephen Collins
Meadowlands
2007
as Danny Brogan
Daddy Issues
2024
as Malcolm
Out of the Blue
1995
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Red Riding
2009
as DS Maurice Jobson
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Bradley Headstone
Thorne
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
Blackpool
2004
as Ripley Holden
Holding On
1997
as Shaun
Zero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
True Love
2012
as Adrian
The 7.39
2014
as Carl Matthews
Linda Green
2001
as Pete
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
as Self - Guest
Murder
2002
as Dave Dewston
The Driver
2014
as Vince McKee
The Singapore Grip
2020
as Walter Blackett
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Theseus
The Field of Blood
2011
as Murray Devlin
Ellie & Natasia
2022
as Dentist
The City and the City
2018
as Tyador Borlú
Framed
1992
as DC Larry Jackson
South Riding
2011
as Robert Carne
Finney
1994
as Stephen Finney
One Summer
1983
as Billy Rizley
Pure Wickedness
1999
as Frank Healy
Devil's Advocate
1995
as Matthew Salt
Manhunt
2025
as Narrator
The Siege
2026
Gods of Tennis
2023
as Narrator
9mm: Guns and Gangs
2003
as Narrator
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023
as Narrator
Movies (72)
Blitz
2011
as Dunlop
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
as Thomas Heatherley
Centurion
2010
as Bothos
Basic Instinct 2
2006
as Michael Glass
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Derailed
2005
as Sam Griffin
Slingshot
2024
as Sam Napier
The Reaping
2007
as Doug
The Water Horse
2007
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Captain Günther Weber
Nowhere Boy
2009
as Bobby Dykins
Welcome to the Punch
2013
as Thomas Geiger
Being Human
1994
as Cyprion's Man
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as The Governor (archive footage)
The Ones Below
2016
as Jon
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Dampyr
2022
as Gorka
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Kiffer Finzi
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Ronaldo
2015
as Dramatic VO (voice)
Robin Hood
1991
as Little John
Cause Célèbre
1987
as George Bowman
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Maurice Jobson
U Be Dead
2009
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
Cooked
2010
as (voice)
The Commissioner
1998
as Murray Lomax
Waterland
1992
as Dick Crick
Earthbound
2012
as Bill Norman
Stoned
2005
as Tom Keylock
Is Anybody There?
2009
as Dad
Macbeth
2011
as Macbeth
The Deal
2003
as Gordon Brown
The Colour Room
2021
as Fred Ridgeway
The One That Got Away
1996
as Andy "Mac" McNab
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
as Mark Antony
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004
as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as Jackson Lake
Drowning by Numbers
1988
as Bellamy
Born Romantic
2000
as Fergus
Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Rob
Thorne: Scaredycat
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
Black and Blue
1992
as DC Norman Mills
Disaster at Chernobyl
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Harry
Some Voices
2000
as Pete
Taking Liberties
2007
as Narration
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013
as Self
The Widowmaker
1990
as Rob
Mrs Mandela
2010
as Theunis Swanepoel
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
2015
as Narrator
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
as Narrator (voice)
The Suicide Club
2000
as Henry Joyce
Viva Blackpool
2006
as Ripley Holden
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gee Gee
2011
as Michael
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004
as Self-Narrator(voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
2020
as Narrator
Clubland
1991
as DC Judd
Available Light
1990
as Marcus
The Year London Blew Up
2005
as Narrator (voice)
London's Burning
2011
as Borough Commander
This Little Life
2003
as Richie MacGregor
Doctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
Inflicted Kindness
as DS Mark Thompson
Out of Town
1988
as The Traveller
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003
as Self
Out of Control
2002
as Mike
Six Inches of Soil
2024
as Narrator (animated sequence)
A Separate Peace
2020
as John Brown
Big Cat
1998
as Leo
Two Tribes
2019
as Self
Around The World In 60 Mins
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
About 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. Thro… With 136 credits spanning from 1983 to 2026, David Morrissey has appeared in 72 films and 64 TV shows.
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