DAVID MORRISSEY

'David Morrissey' (born June 21, 1964) is an English film, television and stage actor.
Morrissey, the youngest of four children, was born in Everton, Liverpool, England. He was raised by his mother after his father, a shoe repairman and key cutter, died when Morrissey was fourteen.^[1] He made his television debut in 1983, after training with Everyman's Youth Theatre in Liverpool. 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), with whom he has three children.

Contents

Television

Selected Films

Footnotes

External links

Television

★ ''Cape Wrath''

★ ''Blackpool''

★ ''Clocking Off''

★ ''Holding On''

★ ''Linda Green''

★ ''One Summer''

★ ''Out of the Blue''

★ ''Our Mutual Friend''

★ ''State of Play''

★ ''The Deal'' (playing Gordon Brown)

★ ''The Knock''

★ ''Clubland''

Selected Films

★ ''The Reaping'' (2007)

★ ''Basic Instinct 2'' (2006)

★ ''Derailed'' (2005)

★ ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin'' (2001)

★ ''Some Voices (2000)

★ ''Born Romantic'' (2000)

★ ''Hilary and Jackie'' (1998) - playing Christopher Finzi

★ ''Drowning by Numbers'' (1988) - playing Bellamy

Footnotes

1. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article64728.ece

External links

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