The British actor, director and producer David Morrissey has extensive experience in film, theater, television and radio. He is known to the Russian audience for his cult paintings Poirot Agatha Christie (Colonel Arietnot), Another Boleyn Family (Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Van Levenguk), Devil's Advocate (Matthew Salt) . The actor not so long ago crossed the half-century frontier of his life. It's time to look back and summarize: what has been achieved? What is missing? The filmography of the actor is quite extensive. We will focus only on those works that were key in his career. In this article, we will pay some attention to the personal life of the actor.
Childhood
We can say that David Morrissey is a "self-made-man", that is, a person who created himself. His father, Joe, was a shoemaker, and his mother, Joan, worked in a retail store. The future actor was born on June 21, 1964. He was the fourth child in the family. David has older brothers Tony and Paul and sister Karen. The family lived in Kensington in an old house in which his grandmother had lived all his life and his mother was born. The son of a shoemaker had no patronage, but from childhood dreamed of a theater. The decision to become an actor came back in nineteen sixty-nine. His first role was in the school play "The Wizard of Oz", where eleven-year-old David played the Scarecrow. On the advice of his cousin, he enrolled in a youth club at the Liverpool Theater "Everimen." The teenager's talent was soon noticed, and at fourteen, David was included in the troupe as a full-fledged actor. A year later, the young man lost his father. But, despite the loss of financial support, he still enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The beginning of an acting career
Even before entering this prestigious university, David Morrissey made his debut in the television series One Summer. He managed to play sixteen-year-old teenager Billy, who, along with a friend, fled from Liverpool to Wales. The actor was two years older than his hero. But he played the role of a teenager so convincingly that with the release of One Summer, he gained popularity. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985, the young actor joined the troupe of the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Most notable was his role in Peer Gynt. He does not disdain television, while simultaneously starring in the series. Outstanding director Peter Greenaway noticed a young talent and invited him to shoot in his film “Countdown of the Drowned”. In this picture, David got the role of Bellamy. And he played it perfectly. But the next role of any significance to the actor had to wait four whole years.
David Morrissey: filmography
A significant milestone in his career was the film "Water Country" (1992). In it, the actor played the role of Dick Creek. But then again went a streak of bad luck. The actor interrupted in small roles in film and television. Fame came to David Morrissey only in 2006, with the release of the film "Basic Instinct-2." In the sequel titled “Lust for Risk”, the famous Sharon Stone became his partner . After this film, invitations to film sets rained down on the actor as if from a cornucopia . One only has to list the tapes in which David Morrissey starred. The films "Harvest", "Another of the Boleyn family", "Become John Lennon", "Centurion" became very popular with the audience and gathered a large box office. And the films “Big Game” and “Deal” brought the actor praise and high marks from film critics. For his work in the first film, he was even nominated for a British Academy Award for Best Actor. In The Big Game, Morrissey played Stephen Collins. And for the image of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in The Deal, the actor still received this prestigious award.
Director and producer
Talented actors usually do not stop there and in the end begin to create themselves. David Morrissey is no exception to this rule. He continues to act in films and play in the theater. His last works in the play Macbeth and in the films The Return of Captain Nemo and Welcome to the Trap were successful with the public. Since 2009, the actor decided to try himself as a producer and began to film novels. With his participation, the film-dilogy “Thorne: Sonya” and “Thorn: The Scared Crow” was released. He also removed the tape “Don't worry about me.” But still, the public longs to see David Morrissey in the frame. In recent years, he was nominated for an award in the category "Best Actor" for his work in the movie The Walking Dead.
Personal life
David Morrissey, whose photo never got on the pages of scandalous chronicles about the life of movie stars, is married and has three children. The only thing that distinguishes his family life from thousands of others is the genealogy of his wife. David's choice was Esther Freud, the great-great-granddaughter of the great psychoanalyst. The couple checked their relationship for thirteen years until they registered a marriage in August 2006. The wedding was played in Suffolk.