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Aliases: David Mark Morrissey , Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ , دیوید موریسی

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 62

TV Involvements: 46


Most Famous Work

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

Most Famous Work

The Walking Dead
Average
8

The Walking Dead

(2010) Philip Blake
Prime Target
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7

Prime Target

(2025) Professor Robert Mallinder
Doctor Who
Average
8

Doctor Who

(2005) Jackson Lake
Agatha Christie's Poirot
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8

Agatha Christie's Poirot

(1989) John Arbuthnot
Extant
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6

Extant

(2014) Tobias Shepherd
Britannia
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7

Britannia

(2018) General Aulus Plautius
Basic Instinct 2
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5

Basic Instinct 2

(2006) Michael Glass
The Walking Dead: The Return
Average
7

The Walking Dead: The Return

(2024) The Governor (archive footage)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 Professor Robert Mallinder
2024 Sam Napier
Malcolm
Self - Guest
The Governor (archive footage)
Narrator (animated sequence)
2023 DCS George Oldfield
ACC George Oldfield
Narrator
Narrator
Narrator
2022 Gorka
Dentist
DCS Ian St Clair
2021 Fred Ridgeway
2020 Self
Walter Blackett
Self - Narrator (voice)
Narrator
John Brown
2019 Captain Vincent
Self
2018 Tyador Borlú
Mark Antony
Self - Guest
General Aulus Plautius
2017 Narrator (voice)
2016 Jon
Harry
Narrator (voice)
2015 Dramatic VO (voice)
Narrator
Narrator
2014 Sam Webster
Vince McKee
Tobias Shepherd
Martin
Carl Matthews
2013 Self
Self
Thomas Geiger
2012 Earl of Northumberland
Adrian
Bill Norman
2011 Borough Commander
Dunlop
Murray Devlin
Macbeth
Robert Carne
Self - Narrator (voice)
Michael
2010 John Arbuthnot
Philip Blake
DI Tom Thorne
Tom Thorne
(voice)
Bothos
Theunis Swanepoel
2009 Bobby Dykins
Self
Dr. Jan Falkowski
Dad
Maurice Jobson
Maurice Jobson
Maurice Jobson
Maurice Jobson
2008 Jackson Lake
N/A
Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Colonel Brandon
2007 Captain Thomas Hamilton
N/A
Doug
DI Mal Craig
Narration
2006 Self
Ripley Holden
Michael Glass
2005 Tom Keylock
Sam Griffin
Narrator (voice)
Jackson Lake
Self
2004 Ripley Holden
Self-Narrator(voice)
Narrator
Narrator
N/A
Self - Narrator (voice)
2003 Narrator
Gordon Brown
Stephen Collins
Richie MacGregor
Self
2002 Mike
Dave Dewston
Dave Dewston
2001 Self - Guest
Pete
Captain Günther Weber
2000 Fergus
Pete
N/A
Henry Joyce
1999 Rob
Frank Healy
1998 Kiffer Finzi
Bradley Headstone
Murray Lomax
1997 Shaun
1996 Andy "Mac" McNab
1995 Self
D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
Matthew Salt
1994 Stephen Finney
Cyprion's Man
1992 Sgt. Larry Jackson
DC Norman Mills
N/A
Dick Crick
1991 DC Judd
Little John
1990 Rob
Marcus
1989 John Arbuthnot
1988 Bellamy
The Traveller
1987 George Bowman
1983 N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2024 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
2010 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2009 Director
2004 Director
2001 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
2004 Vocal Coach
Year Role Movie/Tv

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