David Morrissey Biography

David Morrissey is an English actor and film director. Born in Liverpool Morrissey learned to act at the city's Everyman Youth Theatre. At the age of 18 he was cast in the television series One Summer in 1983 which won him recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art then acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre for four years.
Throughout the 1990s he often portrayed policemen and soldiers though he took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie. More film parts followed including roles in Some Voices and Captain Corelli's Mandolin before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play and Gordon Brown in The Deal. The former earned him a Best Actor nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter won him a Best Actor award from the Royal Television Society.
In the years following those films he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility Red Riding Nowhere Boy and Centurion and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne. He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and played the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011.

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