Acting · Everton, Liverpool, England, UK · Born June 21, 1964
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
TVTip Toe
2026
as Clive Goss
TVGone
2026
as Michael Polly
MovieThe Woman in Cabin 10
2025
as Thomas Heatherley
TVPrime Target
2025
as Professor Robert Mallinder
TVManhunt
2025
as Narrator
MovieSlingshot
2024
as Sam Napier
TVDaddy Issues
2024
as Malcolm
TVRob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as The Governor (archive footage)
MovieSix Inches of Soil
2024
as Narrator (animated sequence)
TVThe Long Shadow
2023
as DCS George Oldfield
TVGods of Tennis
2023
as Narrator
TVTurkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023
as Narrator
TVBritain's Notorious Prisons
2023
as Narrator
MovieDampyr
2022
as Gorka
TVEllie & Natasia
2022
as Dentist
TVSherwood
2022
as DCS Ian St Clair
MovieThe Colour Room
2021
as Fred Ridgeway
TVBetween the Covers
2020
as Self
TVThe Singapore Grip
2020
as Walter Blackett
MovieJürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieKlopp: The Inside Story
2020
as Narrator
A Separate Peace
2020
as John Brown
TVGood Omens
2019
as Captain Vincent
MovieTwo Tribes
2019
as Self
TVThe City and the City
2018
as Tyador Borlú
MovieNational Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
as Mark Antony
TVThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
TVBritannia
2018
as General Aulus Plautius
TVLion Country: Night and Day
2017
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Ones Below
2016
as Jon
MovieNational Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Harry
MovieThe Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRonaldo
2015
as Dramatic VO (voice)
TVRock 'n' Roll America
2015
as Narrator
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
2015
as Narrator
TVThe Missing
2014
as Sam Webster
TVThe Driver
2014
as Vince McKee
TVExtant
2014
as Tobias Shepherd
TVInside No. 9
2014
as Martin
TVThe 7.39
2014
as Carl Matthews
MovieDoctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013
as Self
MovieWelcome to the Punch
2013
as Thomas Geiger
TVThe Hollow Crown
2012
as Earl of Northumberland
TVTrue Love
2012
as Adrian
MovieEarthbound
2012
as Bill Norman
MovieLondon's Burning
2011
as Borough Commander
MovieBlitz
2011
as Dunlop
TVThe Field of Blood
2011
as Murray Devlin
MovieMacbeth
2011
as Macbeth
TVSouth Riding
2011
as Robert Carne
Around The World In 60 Mins
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gee Gee
2011
as Michael
MovieThorne: Scaredycat
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
TVThe Walking Dead
2010
as Philip Blake
TVThorne
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
MovieCooked
2010
as (voice)
MovieCenturion
2010
as Bothos
MovieMrs Mandela
2010
as Theunis Swanepoel
MovieNowhere Boy
2009
as Bobby Dykins
MovieRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Maurice Jobson
MovieRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
as Maurice Jobson
MovieRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
as Maurice Jobson
TVDoctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
MovieU Be Dead
2009
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
MovieIs Anybody There?
2009
as Dad
TVRed Riding
2009
as DS Maurice Jobson
MovieDoctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as Jackson Lake
Meet The Immigrants
2008
MovieThe Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
TVSense and Sensibility
2008
as Colonel Brandon
MovieThe Water Horse
2007
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
TVMeadowlands
2007
as Danny Brogan
TVWould I Lie to You?
2007
as Self - Panellist
MovieThe Reaping
2007
as Doug
TVFive Days
2007
as DI Mal Craig
MovieTaking Liberties
2007
as Narration
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self
MovieViva Blackpool
2006
as Ripley Holden
MovieBasic Instinct 2
2006
as Michael Glass
MovieStoned
2005
as Tom Keylock
MovieDerailed
2005
as Sam Griffin
MovieThe Year London Blew Up
2005
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
TVBlackpool
2004
as Ripley Holden
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004
as Self-Narrator(voice)
MovieZero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004
as Narrator
TVZero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
TVThis World
2004
MovieDisaster at Chernobyl
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV9mm: Guns and Gangs
2003
as Narrator
MovieThe Deal
2003
as Gordon Brown
TVState of Play
2003
as Stephen Collins
MovieThis Little Life
2003
as Richie MacGregor
MovieTrust Me - I'm a Politician
2003
as Self
MovieOut of Control
2002
as Mike
TVMurder
2002
as Dave Dewston
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
TVLinda Green
2001
as Pete
MovieCaptain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Captain Günther Weber
MovieBorn Romantic
2000
as Fergus
MovieSome Voices
2000
as Pete
MovieThe Suicide Club
2000
as Henry Joyce
MovieFanny & Elvis
1999
as Rob
Pure Wickedness
1999
as Frank Healy
MovieHilary and Jackie
1998
as Kiffer Finzi
Big Cat
1998
as Leo
TVOur Mutual Friend
1998
as Bradley Headstone
MovieThe Commissioner
1998
as Murray Lomax
TVHolding On
1997
as Shaun
MovieThe One That Got Away
1996
as Andy "Mac" McNab
TVSoccer AM
1995
as Self
TVOut of the Blue
1995
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Devil's Advocate
1995
as Matthew Salt
TVFinney
1994
as Stephen Finney
MovieBeing Human
1994
as Cyprion's Man
TVThe Knock
1994
as Gerry Birch
TVFramed
1992
as DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson
Black and Blue
1992
as DC Norman Mills
TVBetween the Lines
1992
MovieWaterland
1992
as Dick Crick
TVThe Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Theseus
MovieClubland
1991
as DC Judd
MovieRobin Hood
1991
as Little John
MovieThe Widowmaker
1990
as Rob
Available Light
1990
as Marcus
TVScreen One
1989
as DC Norman Mills
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as John Arbuthnot
MovieDrowning by Numbers
1988
as Bellamy
MovieOut of Town
1988
as The Traveller
MovieCause Célèbre
1987
as George Bowman
TVScreenPlay
1986
as Marcus
TVOne Summer
1983
as Billy Rizley
MovieInflicted Kindness
as DS Mark Thompson
The Siege
