David Morrissey: Life and Creativity

British actor, director and producer David Morrissey has extensive experience in film, theater, television and radio. He is known to the Russian spectator by the cult paintings Poirot Agatha Christie (Colonel Arietnot), Another One of the Boleyn Girl (Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard), The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Van Leuwenhoek), The Devil's Advocate (Matthew Salt) . Actor recently stepped over half a century of his life. It's time to look back and summarize: what is achieved? What is missing? The filmography of the actor is quite extensive. We will focus only on those works that were key to his career. In this article, we will pay some attention and personal life to the actor.

Childhood

It can be said that David Morrissey is a "Self-Maid Man," that is, a person who has created himself. His father Joe was a shoemaker, and Joan's mother 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 lived all his life and his mother was born. The son of a shoemaker did not have any protection, but from childhood he dreamed of a theater. The decision to become an actor came in the year 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 circle at the Everyman Theater in Liverpool. The adolescent's talent was soon noticed, and in his fourteen years 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 goes to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The beginning of acting career

Even before entering this prestigious university, David Morrissey made his debut in the television series "One Summer". He managed to play a sixteen-year-old teenage Billy, who, along with a friend, fled from Liverpool to Wales. The actor was two years older than his hero. But the role of a teenager he played so convincingly that with the access to television screens "One summer" has gained popularity. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985, the young actor joins the Royal Shakespeare Theater Company. The most notable was his role in "Peer Günte." He does not disdain for television, while filming in serials. Outstanding director Peter Greenaway noticed a young talent and invited to shoot in his film "Counting drowned people." In this picture, David got the role of Bellamy. And he played it perfectly. But the next somewhat significant role of the actor had to wait for four years.

David Morrissey: Filmography

A significant milestone in his career was the film "Water Country" (1992). In it, the actor played the part of Dick Crick. But then again went the band of bad luck. The actor was interrupted by small roles in films and on television. Glory came to David Morrissey only in 2006, with the release of the film "Basic Instinct-2." In the sequel, entitled "Thirst for Risk," his partner was the famous Sharon Stone. After this film on the actor as from the cornucopia rained invitations to the set. It is only necessary to list the tapes in which David Morrissey was shot. Films "Reaping", "Another of the Kind of Boleyn", "Becoming John Lennon", "Centurion" became very popular with the audience and collected a large cash register. A tape "The Great Game" and "Deal" brought the actor praise and high ratings of film critics. For work in the first film, he was even nominated for the award of the British television academy as the best actor. In the "Great Game" Morrissey played Steven Collins. And for the image of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in "Deal" the actor still received this prestigious award.

Director and Producer

Talented actors usually do not stop there and eventually start to create themselves. David Morrissey is not an 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 a success with the public. Since 2009, the actor decided to try himself as a producer and began to film novels. With his participation came the film-dilogy "Thorn: Sonia" and "Thorn: The Scarecrow's Crow". He also removed the tape "Do not worry about me." But all the same the audience wants to see David Morrissey in the frame. In recent years, he was nominated for the award in the category "Best Actor" for his work in the film "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, so this is the pedigree of his wife. The chosen one of David was Esther Freud, great-great-grandson 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.