Age: 61
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Morrissey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
David Morrissey
Frederick Langston
for Frederick Langston in Control: Beyond Reality
Suggested by jokker17
"Control: Beyond Reality" follows the story of Jesse Faden, a woman searching for answers about her brother's disappearance. Her search leads her to the Office of Federal Control (OFC), a government agency tasked with investigating and containing paranormal phenomena. He soon discovers that the OFC is in chaos, as a mysterious entity known as the Hiss has invaded its facilities and corrupted its employees. Jesse encounters the "Object of Power", a supernatural weapon capable of taking on the evil forces of the Hiss. By chance, she becomes the new Director of the OFC. While exploring the maze of corridors and rooms in the building known as the Oldest House, Jesse confronts enemies possessed by the Hiss and discovers that he possesses supernatural abilities of his own. As he delves deeper into the agency's secrets and into alternate dimensions, Jesse unravels the truth about the origin of the Hiss and its connection to his brother's disappearance. With the help of other OFC members such as Emily Pope and Simon Arish, Jesse challenges the corrupt forces within the agency and fights to restore control. Their goal is to free the OFC from the Hiss and unravel the mysteries hidden within the confines of the Oldest House.
