David Morrissey
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David Morrissey (born June 21, 1964) is an English film, television and stage actor.
Morrissey, the youngest of four children, was born in Knotty Ash,[1] Liverpool, England. He was raised by his mother, who worked at the Littlewoods catalogue company, after his father, a shoe repairman and key cutter, died when Morrissey was fourteen.[2][3] He made his television debut in 1983, after training with Everyman's Youth Theatre in Liverpool, he went on to train at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At the 2004 BAFTA awards, Morrissey was nominated for Best Television Actor for his performance in the drama serial, State of Play. In the same year, the play The Deal, in which he co-starred as Gordon Brown to Michael Sheen's Tony Blair, won the award for Best Single Drama.
Morrissey's wife is the novelist Esther Freud (great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and daughter of Lucian Freud), and they have three children.
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[edit] Television
- One Summer
- Cape Wrath
- Holding On
- Out of the Blue
- Our Mutual Friend
- Clocking Off
- Clubland
- The Knock
- Linda Green
- The Deal (playing Gordon Brown)
- State of Play
- Blackpool
- Sense and Sensibility
- Doctor Who
[edit] Filmography
- Drowning by Numbers (1988) - playing Bellamy
- Hilary and Jackie (1998) - playing Christopher Finzi
- Born Romantic (2000)
- Some Voices (2000)
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
- Butterfly World (2003)
- Derailed (2005)
- Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- The Reaping (2007)
- The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
- Is There Anybody There? (2008)
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