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
Soccer AM
1995
as Self
Extant
2014
as Tobias Shepherd
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Britannia
2018
as General Aulus Plautius
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Earl of Northumberland
The Missing
2014
as Sam Webster
Between the Lines
1992
ScreenPlay
1986
as Marcus / Judd
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Sherwood
2022
as DCS Ian St Clair
Prime Target
2025
as Professor Robert Mallinder
Gone
2026
as Michael Polly
The Long Shadow
2023
as DCS George Oldfield / ACC George Oldfield
Screen One
1989
as DC Norman Mills
This World
2004
Sense and Sensibility
2008
as Colonel Brandon
State of Play
2003
as Stephen Collins
Five Days
2007
as DI Mal Craig
Between the Covers
2020
as Self
Red Riding
2009
as DS Maurice Jobson
The Knock
1994
as Gerry Birch
Blackpool
2004
as Ripley Holden
Thorne
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
Daddy Issues
2024
as Malcolm
Meadowlands
2007
as Danny Brogan
The Singapore Grip
2020
as Walter Blackett
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Bradley Headstone
Tip Toe
2026
as Clive
Out of the Blue
1995
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Murder
2002
as Dave Dewston
Zero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
True Love
2012
as Adrian
Linda Green
2001
as Pete
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Theseus
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
as Self - Guest
Holding On
1997
as Shaun
The 7.39
2014
as Carl Matthews
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
The Driver
2014
as Vince McKee
Ellie & Natasia
2022
as Dentist
The Field of Blood
2011
as Murray Devlin
South Riding
2011
as Robert Carne
Framed
1992
as DC Larry Jackson
One Summer
1983
as Billy Rizley
Pure Wickedness
1999
as Frank Healy
The City and the City
2018
as Tyador Borlú
Devil's Advocate
1995
as Matthew Salt
Finney
1994
as Stephen Finney
Manhunt
2025
as Narrator
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023
as Narrator
The Siege
2026
Lion Country: Night and Day
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Gods of Tennis
2023
as Narrator
Movies (72)
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
as Thomas Heatherley
Blitz
2011
as Dunlop
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Centurion
2010
as Bothos
Basic Instinct 2
2006
as Michael Glass
Derailed
2005
as Sam Griffin
The Reaping
2007
as Doug
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Captain Günther Weber
Slingshot
2024
as Sam Napier
The Water Horse
2007
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Welcome to the Punch
2013
as Thomas Geiger
The Ones Below
2016
as Jon
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as The Governor (archive footage)
Being Human
1994
as Cyprion's Man
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Nowhere Boy
2009
as Bobby Dykins
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Ronaldo
2015
as Dramatic VO (voice)
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Kiffer Finzi
Robin Hood
1991
as Little John
Dampyr
2022
as Gorka
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Stoned
2005
as Tom Keylock
The Colour Room
2021
as Fred Ridgeway
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
as Mark Antony
Waterland
1992
as Dick Crick
The Deal
2003
as Gordon Brown
Born Romantic
2000
as Fergus
The Commissioner
1998
as Murray Lomax
Cause Célèbre
1987
as George Bowman
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004
as Narrator
Some Voices
2000
as Pete
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as Jackson Lake
Drowning by Numbers
1988
as Bellamy
Black and Blue
1992
as DC Norman Mills
Is Anybody There?
2009
as Dad
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013
as Self
Earthbound
2012
as Bill Norman
U Be Dead
2009
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
The One That Got Away
1996
as Andy "Mac" McNab
Mrs Mandela
2010
as Theunis Swanepoel
Macbeth
2011
as Macbeth
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Viva Blackpool
2006
as Ripley Holden
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Harry
Disaster at Chernobyl
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Thorne: Scaredycat
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
Clubland
1991
as DC Judd
Doctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
The Widowmaker
1990
as Rob
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Taking Liberties
2007
as Narration
Out of Control
2002
as Mike
The Suicide Club
2000
as Henry Joyce
This Little Life
2003
as Richie MacGregor
Out of Town
1988
as The Traveller
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003
as Self
Gee Gee
2011
as Michael
The Year London Blew Up
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Cooked
2010
as (voice)
Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Rob
London's Burning
2011
as Borough Commander
Available Light
1990
as Marcus
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004
as Self-Narrator(voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
2020
as Narrator
Six Inches of Soil
2024
as Narrator (animated sequence)
Two Tribes
2019
as Self
Big Cat
1998
as Leo
A Separate Peace
2020
as John Brown
Around The World In 60 Mins
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
2015
as Narrator
Inflicted Kindness
as DS Mark Thompson
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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- Basic Instinct 2 (2006) — as Michael Glass
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