David Morrissey Biography

Fast Facts

• As a teen, he dropped out of school and joined Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre
• Performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre
• At age 19, he made his professional acting debut in One Summer, the first drama series to debut on British television's Channel 4
• Was nominated for a British Academy Television Craft Award for Best New Director (Fiction) in 2002 for the BBC's Sweet Revenge
• Was one of four actors chosen to audition with Sharon Stone for Basic Instinct 2
• His wife, novelist Esther Freud, is the great-grandaughter of Sigmund Freud and daughter of artist Lucian Freud