Acting
David Morrissey
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. He grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. Learning to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At age 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 (RADA) 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). Returning to the stage in 2008, he did a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011. As 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 novelist Esther Freud, has three children, and is a patron of numerous charities. THEATRE includes Hangmen at the Royal Court; and The Lover / The Collection at Theatre Royal Bath; The End of History at The Royal Court; King John at The Barbican; The School for Scandal and Peer Gynt at The National Theatre; Twelfth Night and Three Days of Rain at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; Much Ado About Nothing in The West End; In a Dark Dark House at The Almedia; Julius Caesar at The Bridge. TELEVISION includes Gone, Daddy Issues, Tip Toe, The Siege, The Walking Dead, Prime Target, Sherwood, Red Riding, State of Play (BAFTA nomination for Best Actor), The Missing, The City and The City, Britannia, Extant, and The Driver (also Executive Producer), The Long Shadow, Inside No.9, The Singapore Grip, Good Omens, The 7.39, Our Mutual Friend, Clocking Off, Holding On, State of Play, The Deal, Viva Blackpool, Doctor Who, Sense and Sensibility, The Hollow Crown, True Love, The Field of Blood, South Riding, Thorne: Sleepyhead/Scaredy Cat, One Summer. FILM includes the upcoming The Beatles biopics, Welcome to the Punch, Nowhere Boy, Centurion, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Woman in Cabin 10, The Colour Room, Slingshot, Dampyr, Blitz, The One’s Below, Hilary & Jackie, Some Voices, Born Romantic, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Derailed, Stoned, The Reaping, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
Filmography
The Oresteia
Film · 2026
Gone
Series · 2026
Tip Toe
Series · 2026
The Woman in Cabin 10
Film · 2025
Manhunt
Series · 2025
Prime Target
Series · 2025
Slingshot
Film · 2024
The Walking Dead: The Return
Film · 2024
Six Inches of Soil
Film · 2024
Daddy Issues
Series · 2024
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Series · 2024
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
Series · 2023
Gods of Tennis
Series · 2023
The Long Shadow
Series · 2023
The Long Shadow
Series · 2023
Britain's Notorious Prisons
Series · 2023
Dampyr
Film · 2022
Sherwood
Series · 2022
Ellie & Natasia
Series · 2022
The Colour Room
Film · 2021
A Separate Peace
Film · 2020
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Film · 2020
Klopp: The Inside Story
Film · 2020
Between the Covers
Series · 2020
The Singapore Grip
Series · 2020
Two Tribes
Film · 2019
Good Omens
Series · 2019
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Film · 2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Series · 2018
Britannia
Series · 2018
The City and the City
Series · 2018
Lion Country: Night and Day
Series · 2017
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Film · 2016
The Ones Below
Film · 2016
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Film · 2016
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Film · 2015
Ronaldo
Film · 2015
Rock 'n' Roll America
Series · 2015
Extant
Series · 2014
The 7.39
Series · 2014
The Driver
Series · 2014
The Missing
Series · 2014
Inside No. 9
Series · 2014
Doctor Who Explained
Film · 2013
Welcome to the Punch
Film · 2013
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Film · 2013
Too Far Gone
Film · 2013
Earthbound
Film · 2012
True Love
Series · 2012
The Hollow Crown
Series · 2012
Blitz
Film · 2011
Around The World In 60 Mins
Film · 2011
Gee Gee
Film · 2011
Macbeth
Film · 2011
London's Burning
Film · 2011
The Field of Blood
Series · 2011
South Riding
Series · 2011
Centurion
Film · 2010
Thorne: Scaredycat
Film · 2010
Mrs Mandela
Film · 2010
Cooked
Film · 2010
The Walking Dead
Series · 2010
Thorne
Series · 2010
Nowhere Boy
Film · 2009
U Be Dead
Film · 2009
Is Anybody There?
Film · 2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Film · 2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Film · 2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Film · 2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Series · 2009
Red Riding
Series · 2009
The Other Boleyn Girl
Film · 2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Film · 2008
Sense and Sensibility
Series · 2008
Meet The Immigrants
Series · 2008
The Reaping
Film · 2007
Taking Liberties
Film · 2007
The Water Horse
Film · 2007
Five Days
Series · 2007
Meadowlands
Series · 2007
Would I Lie to You?
Series · 2007
Basic Instinct 2
Film · 2006
Viva Blackpool
Film · 2006
The One Show
Series · 2006
Derailed
Film · 2005
Stoned
Film · 2005
The Year London Blew Up
Film · 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Series · 2005
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
Film · 2004
Disaster at Chernobyl
Film · 2004
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Film · 2004
Blackpool
Series · 2004
This World
Series · 2004
Zero Hour
Series · 2004
The Deal
Film · 2003
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Film · 2003
This Little Life
Film · 2003
State of Play
Series · 2003
9mm: Guns and Gangs
Series · 2003
Out of Control
Film · 2002
Murder
Series · 2002
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Film · 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Series · 2001
Linda Green
Series · 2001
The Suicide Club
Film · 2000
Born Romantic
Film · 2000
Some Voices
Film · 2000
Fanny & Elvis
Film · 1999
Pure Wickedness
Series · 1999
Hilary and Jackie
Film · 1998
The Commissioner
Film · 1998
Big Cat
Film · 1998
Our Mutual Friend
Series · 1998
Holding On
Series · 1997
The One That Got Away
Film · 1996
Into the Fire
Series · 1996
Soccer AM
Series · 1995
Devil's Advocate
Series · 1995
Out of the Blue
Series · 1995
Being Human
Film · 1994
Finney
Series · 1994
The Knock
Series · 1994
Black and Blue
Film · 1992
Waterland
Film · 1992
Between the Lines
Series · 1992
Framed
Series · 1992
Robin Hood
Film · 1991
Clubland
Film · 1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
Film · 1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Series · 1991
Available Light
Film · 1990
The Widowmaker
Film · 1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Series · 1989
Screen One
Series · 1989
Drowning by Numbers
Film · 1988
Out of Town
Film · 1988
Cause Célèbre
Film · 1987
ScreenPlay
Series · 1986
ScreenPlay
Series · 1986
One Summer
Series · 1983
Inflicted Kindness
Film
The Siege
Series