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David Morrissey

デビッド・モリシー　/　でびっど・もりしー

Actor from United Kingdom

June 21, 1964 (age 61)　・　Kensington, United Kingdom

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writer
screenwriter

My Take

David Morrissey is one of British television's most dependable leading men, the sort who elevates whatever he is in. I first really noticed him as Gordon Brown in The Deal and the haunted MP in State of Play, both 2003, where his brooding gravity was perfect. American audiences know him as the Governor in The Walking Dead, a villain he made genuinely menacing rather than cartoonish. More recently Sherwood reminded me how good he is at weary, decent authority figures. At six foot two with that low rumble of a voice, he commands the screen. A character actor's depth in a leading man's frame.

Overview

David Mark Joseph Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the 1990s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003), Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003), The Governor in the third, and fourth seasons of The Walking Dead (2012–2015), and DCS Ian St Clair in Sherwood (2022–present).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): David Morrissey
Name (Japanese): デビッド・モリシー
Reading: でびっど・もりしー
Born: June 21, 1964 (age 61)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Dragon
Origin: Kensington, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: 188 cm
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Occupation: actor / writer / screenwriter / film director / stage actor

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