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 making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011.

As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities.

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大卫·马克·莫里西（David Mark Morrissey，1964年6月21日-），英国演员、导演。莫里西在利物浦的肯辛顿和诺蒂阿什地区长大。他与伊恩·哈特（Ian Hart），马克和斯蒂芬·麦甘（Mark McGann）和斯蒂芬·麦甘（Stephen McGann）以及凯茜·泰森（Cathy Tyson）一起在Everyman青年剧院学习表演。18 岁时，他和哈特出演了电视连续剧《一个夏天》（1983 年），这为他们赢得了全国的认可。在制作完《一个夏天》之后，莫里西就读于皇家戏剧艺术学院，然后在皇家莎士比亚剧团和国家剧院演出。

在整个 1990 年代，他经常扮演警察和士兵，尽管扮演了其他决定性的角色，例如《我们共同的朋友》（1998 年）中的布拉德利·墓碑和《希拉里和杰基》（1998 年）中的克里斯托弗·芬齐。随后，他出演了更多的电影角色，包括在《一些声音》（2000 年）和《科雷利上尉的曼陀林》（2001 年）中扮演的角色，之后他在《游戏状态》（2003 年）中扮演斯蒂芬·柯林斯 （Stephen Collins） 和在《交易》（2003 年）中扮演戈登·布朗 （Gordon Brown） 等广受好评的角色。前者为他赢得了英国电视学院奖的提名，后者获得了皇家电视协会奖的最佳男演员奖。他的电影角色并不总是广受赞誉;他在《基本本能2》（2006）中饰演男主角受到广泛批评，《收割》（2007）在票房上大放异彩。此后，他在《理智与情感》（2008年）、《小红帽》（2009年）和《五天》（2010年）中担任主角，出演了电影《无处可去的男孩》（2009年）和《百夫长》（2010年），并制作并主演了犯罪剧《索恩》（2010年）。2008年，他重返舞台，演出了尼尔·拉布特（Neil LaBute）的《在黑暗的房子里》（In a Dark Dark House），并将在2011年利物浦Everyman制作的《麦克白》（Macbeth）中担任主角。

作为导演，莫里西曾执导过短片，以及BBC的电视剧《甜蜜的复仇》（2001年）和《路人》（2004年）。他的长片处女作《别担心我》在2009年伦敦电影节上首映，并于2010年3月在BBC电视台播出。他与小说家埃丝特·弗洛伊德（Esther Freud）结婚，育有三个孩子，并且是众多慈善机构的赞助人。