Personal Info
Birth date
1964-06-21 (61 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
Also known as
David Mark Morrissey
Ντέιβιντ Μόρισεϊ
دیوید موریسی
David Morrissey
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
Filmography
The Woman in Cabin 10
6.131
Overview:
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.The Walking Dead
8.1
Overview:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.2
Overview:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
6.7
Overview:
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.The One Show
4.6
Overview:
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.Good Omens
8.015
Overview:
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces in order to prevent Armageddon. They attempt to raise the Antichrist in a balanced and human way, but are they focusing their efforts in the right direction?Soccer AM
6
Overview:
Soccer AM is a British Saturday-morning football-based comedy/talk show, predominantly based around the Premier League. Originally presented by Jane Hoffen, Gary Stevens and Russ Williams, they lasted just a year before Helen Chamberlain and Tim Lovejoy replaced them, where Lovejoy served for over a decade. He has since been replaced by Andy Goldstein and, more recently, Max Rushden. The show has been aired on Sky Sports 2 each Saturday morning of the football season since 1995 from 7:00am or 9:00am to noon originally and currently between 10:00am and 12:00pm. In early 2009, the 500th episode was broadcast. Although the show is filmed live from 2010 it has been broadcast on a momentary delay due to bad language and/or inappropriate content from certain guests. The show's current sponsor is Procter & Gamble through their Head & Shoulders brand. The show was previously sponsored by Frijj, a brand of milkshake, after Dairy Crest signed a £2 million sponsorship deal. Parts of the show have remained since the beginning, whilst new items have been introduced each season. In that respect, it is almost the same every week, the difference being new football footage and comedy skits. Every week sees a new group of celebrity guests, generally featuring at least one footballer who is free on the Saturday, and a mix of musicians, TV personalities, and other sportsmen.Inside No. 9
8
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An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.Prime Target
6.84
Overview:
A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a government agent to unravel a high-stakes conspiracy.Extant
6.349
Overview:
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.Blitz
6.184
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A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.The Missing
7.2
Overview:
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.Britannia
6.883
Overview:
An epic drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army – determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.Derailed
6.385
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When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
6.672
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Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
7
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Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
6.924
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After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
6.3
Overview:
Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.Captain Corelli's Mandolin
6
Overview:
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
6
Overview:
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.The Hollow Crown
7.4
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A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.The Suicide Club
5.3
Overview:
A man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club's only female member.Basic Instinct 2
4.97
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Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.Nowhere Boy
7.172
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A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.Slingshot
6.169
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An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.Between the Lines
5.6
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Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.Drowning by Numbers
7.055
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Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.The Water Horse
6.536
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A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
7.4
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The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?Acting
2025The Woman in Cabin 10 as Thomas Heatherley
2025Prime Target (3 Episodes) as Professor Robert Mallinder
2025Manhunt (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2024Slingshot as Sam Napier
2024Daddy Issues (6 Episodes) as Malcolm
2024Rob Beckett's Smart TV (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2024The Walking Dead: The Return as The Governor (archive footage)
2024Six Inches of Soil as Narrator (animated sequence)
2023The Long Shadow (1, 5 Episode) as DCS George Oldfield, ACC George Oldfield
2023Gods of Tennis (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2023Turkey: Empire of Erdogan (2 Episodes) as Narrator
2023Britain's Notorious Prisons (2 Episodes) as Narrator
2022Dampyr as Gorka
2022Ellie & Natasia (1 Episode) as Dentist
2022Sherwood (12 Episodes) as DCS Ian St Clair
2021The Colour Room as Fred Ridgeway
2020Between the Covers (1 Episode) as Self
2020The Singapore Grip (6 Episodes) as Walter Blackett
2020Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020Klopp: The Inside Story as Narrator
2020A Separate Peace as John Brown
2019Good Omens (1 Episode) as Captain Vincent
2019Two Tribes as Self
2018The City and the City (4 Episodes) as Tyador Borlú
2018National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
2018The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2018Britannia (27 Episodes) as General Aulus Plautius
2017Lion Country: Night and Day (3 Episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2016The Ones Below as Jon
2016National Theatre Live: Hangmen as Harry
2016The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Narrator (voice)
2015Ronaldo as Dramatic VO (voice)
2015Rock 'n' Roll America (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2015Secrets of Mexico's Drug War as Narrator
2014The Missing (8 Episodes) as Sam Webster
2014The Driver (3 Episodes) as Vince McKee
2014Extant (10 Episodes) as Tobias Shepherd
2014Inside No. 9 (1 Episode) as Martin
2014The 7.39 (2 Episodes) as Carl Matthews
2013Doctor Who Explained as Self
2013The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead as Self
2013Welcome to the Punch as Thomas Geiger
2012The Hollow Crown (1 Episode) as Earl of Northumberland
2012True Love (1 Episode) as Adrian
2012Earthbound as Bill Norman
2011London's Burning as Borough Commander
2011Blitz as Dunlop
2011The Field of Blood (4 Episodes) as Murray Devlin
2011Macbeth as Macbeth
2011South Riding (3 Episodes) as Robert Carne
2011Around The World In 60 Mins as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011Gee Gee as Michael
2010Thorne: Scaredycat as DI Tom Thorne
2010The Walking Dead (33 Episodes) as Philip Blake
2010Thorne (6 Episodes) as Tom Thorne
2010Cooked as (voice)
2010Centurion as Bothos
2010Mrs Mandela as Theunis Swanepoel
2009Nowhere Boy as Bobby Dykins
2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Maurice Jobson
2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 as Maurice Jobson
2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Maurice Jobson
2009Doctor Who Greatest Moments (2 Episodes) as Self
2009U Be Dead as Dr. Jan Falkowski
2009Is Anybody There? as Dad
2009Red Riding (3 Episodes) as Maurice Jobson
2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as Jackson Lake
2008Meet The Immigrants (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2008The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
2008Sense and Sensibility (3 Episodes) as Colonel Brandon
2007The Water Horse as Captain Thomas Hamilton
2007Meadowlands (8 Episodes) as Danny Brogan
2007The Reaping as Doug
2007Five Days (10 Episodes) as DI Mal Craig
2007Taking Liberties as Narration
2006The One Show (2 Episodes) as Self
2006Viva Blackpool as Ripley Holden
2006Basic Instinct 2 as Michael Glass
2005Stoned as Tom Keylock
2005Derailed as Sam Griffin
2005The Year London Blew Up as Narrator (voice)
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1 Episode) as Self
2004Blackpool (6 Episodes) as Ripley Holden
2004Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo as Self-Narrator(voice)
2004Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High as Narrator
2004Zero Hour (4 Episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2004This World (9 Episodes) as Unknown
2004Disaster at Chernobyl as Self - Narrator (voice)
20039mm: Guns and Gangs (1 Episode) as Narrator
2003The Deal as Gordon Brown
2003State of Play (6 Episodes) as Stephen Collins
2003This Little Life as Richie MacGregor
2003Trust Me - I'm a Politician as Self
2002Out of Control as Mike
2002Murder (4 Episodes) as Dave Dewston
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2001Linda Green (1 Episode) as Pete
2001Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Captain Günther Weber
2000Born Romantic as Fergus
2000Some Voices as Pete
2000Clocking Off (27 Episodes) as Unknown
2000The Suicide Club as Henry Joyce
1999Fanny & Elvis as Rob
1999Pure Wickedness (4 Episodes) as Frank Healy
1998Hilary and Jackie as Kiffer Finzi
1998Big Cat as Leo
1998Our Mutual Friend (3 Episodes) as Bradley Headstone
1998The Commissioner as Murray Lomax
1997Holding On (8 Episodes) as Shaun
1996The One That Got Away as Andy "Mac" McNab
1995Soccer AM (1 Episode) as Self
1995Out of the Blue (6 Episodes) as D.S. Jim 'Lew' Llewyn
1995Devil's Advocate (2 Episodes) as Matthew Salt
1994Finney (6 Episodes) as Stephen Finney
1994Being Human as Cyprion's Man
1992Framed (4 Episodes) as Sgt. Larry Jackson
1992Black and Blue as DC Norman Mills
1992Between the Lines (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992Waterland as Dick Crick
1991The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1 Episode) as Theseus
1991Clubland as DC Judd
1991Robin Hood as Little John
1990The Widowmaker as Rob
1990Available Light as Marcus
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 Episode) as John Arbuthnot
1988Drowning by Numbers as Bellamy
1988Out of Town as The Traveller
1987Cause Célèbre as George Bowman
1983One Summer (5 Episodes) as Unknown
Production
2024Parish (6 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
Creator
2010Thorne ... Creator
Directing
2009Don't Worry About Me ... Director
2004Passer By (2 Episodes) ... Director
2001Sweet Revenge (2 Episodes) ... Director
Sound
2004Zero Hour (4 Episodes) ... Vocal Coach