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English actor David Morrisey was born on June 21, 1964, in Everton, Liverpool. David made his acting debut in 1983 at age 16 in the television series about two Liverpool runaways called "One Summer." He later went on to have the roles of Gunther Weber in the film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" and of Dr. Michael Glass in the movie "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction." David is married to novelist Ester Freud, who is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.
Extremely prolific British actor David Morrissey sounded off as a vociferous, intense player in English pictures such as Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers (1988, as an unfortunate victim of mariticide), Stephen Gyllenhaal's drama Waterland (1992, as the simple-minded brother of Jeremy Irons), and Hilary and Jackie (1998, as a loving and devoted husband). He forsook British arthouse material for more mainstream Hollywood fare with key performances in the seamy Basic Instinct 2 (2006) and ascended to top billing as the male lead of Hilary Swank in The Reaping (2007), a religious-themed horror outing. That same year, Showtime tapped Morrissey to headline the series Meadowlands, as an English patriarch attempting at all costs to help his wife and children escape the family's crime-saturated past. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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