David Morrissey
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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
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The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)
as Thomas Heatherley
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
as Michael Glass
Blitz (2011)
as Dunlop
The Reaping (2007)
as Doug
Centurion (2010)
as Bothos
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
as Thomas Geiger
Derailed (2005)
as Sam Griffin
Slingshot (2024)
as Sam Napier
The Water Horse (2007)
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Robin Hood (1991)
as Little John
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
as Captain Günther Weber
Macbeth (2011)
as Macbeth
Nowhere Boy (2009)
as Bobby Dykins
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
as Maurice Jobson
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
as Kiffer Finzi
Ronaldo (2015)
as Dramatic VO (voice)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
as Maurice Jobson
Being Human (1994)
as Cyprion's Man
The Walking Dead: The Return (2024)
as The Governor (archive footage)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
as Bellamy
Dampyr (2022)
as Gorka
The Ones Below (2016)
as Jon
Waterland (1992)
as Dick Crick
Earthbound (2012)
as Bill Norman
Born Romantic (2000)
as Fergus
Fanny & Elvis (1999)
as Rob
Is Anybody There? (2009)
as Steve
The Colour Room (2021)
as Fred Ridgeway
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
as Jackson Lake
Stoned (2005)
as Tom Keylock
Some Voices (2000)
as Pete
The One That Got Away (1996)
as Andy "Mac" McNab
Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Inflicted Kindness (—)
as DS Mark Thompson
The Deal (2003)
as Gordon Brown
Cause Célèbre (1987)
as George Bowman
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
as Mark Antony
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
as DI Tom Thorne
The Commissioner (1998)
as Murray Lomax
Doctor Who Explained (2013)
as Self
The Suicide Club (2000)
as Henry Joyce
Black and Blue (1992)
as DC Norman Mills
This Little Life (2003)
as Richie MacGregor
Mrs Mandela (2010)
as Theunis Swanepoel
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High (2004)
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
as Harry
Available Light (1990)
as Marcus
Big Cat (1998)
as Leo
Viva Blackpool (2006)
as Ripley Holden
U Be Dead (2009)
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
The Widowmaker (1990)
as Rob
Klopp: The Inside Story (2020)
as Narrator
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead (2013)
as Self
Out of Town (1988)
as The Traveller
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export (2020)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Taking Liberties (2007)
as Narration
Gee Gee (2011)
as Michael
Six Inches of Soil (2024)
as Narrator (animated sequence)
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On (2016)
as Narrator (voice)
Out of Control (2002)
as Mike
Trust Me - I'm a Politician (2003)
as Self
London's Burning (2011)
as Borough Commander
Around The World In 60 Mins (2011)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Separate Peace (2020)
as John Brown
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo (2004)
as Self-Narrator(voice)
Two Tribes (2019)
as Self
Cooked (2010)
as (voice)
The Year London Blew Up (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War (2015)
as Narrator
Clubland (1991)
as DC Judd