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English actor

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Australian Aborigines
  • The History of Australia. Volume 1. 1788-1887 (The Australian Colour Library)
  • The History of Australia. Volume 2. 1888-1987 (The Australian Colour Library)
  • Lead, Zinc and Silver (Australian Mining & Minerals)
  • A perceptual evaluation of teacher attitudes to the uses and applications of Information Technology for pupils withlearning difficulties, with special reference to those with Moderate Learning Difficulties

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Film & TV

Acting · Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

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…

Known for

  • Gone — Michael Polly2026
  • The Siege2026
  • Tip Toe — Clive2026
  • The Woman in Cabin 10 — Thomas Heatherley2025
  • Manhunt — Narrator2025
  • Prime Target — Professor Robert Mallinder2025
  • Slingshot — Sam Napier2024
  • The Walking Dead: The Return — The Governor (archive footage)2024
  • Six Inches of Soil — Narrator (animated sequence)2024
  • Daddy Issues — Malcolm2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1964
alternative rockart popbritpopindie popindie rockjangle pop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
19
Total plays
70

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Key facts

Born
David Mark Joseph Morrissey , ( 1964-06-21 ) 21 June 1964 (age 61) , Liverpool , England
Occupations
Actor filmmaker
Years active
1982–present
Spouse
Esther Freud ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2020 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

David Mark Joseph Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the 1990s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003), Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003), The Governor in the third, and fourth seasons of The Walking Dead (2012–2015), and DCS Ian St Clair in Sherwood (2022–present). He has also acted extensively on stage with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre.

Morrissey has directed short films and the television dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004). His feature-length directorial debut, the television film Don't Worry About Me (2010), premiered on BBC Two. He was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for State of Play and won a Best Actor award from the Royal Television Society for The Deal. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edge Hill University in 2016.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Morrissey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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