Age: 62
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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
Doctor Octopus
for Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Linked by the Web
Suggested by ivanicigar
En su último año como universitario, Peter debe lidiar con las responsabilidades de su vida como héroe y estudiante, las cuales están en un nivel de exigencia extremo pero con un rumbo positivo. Sin embargo, la situación se tuerce cuando sus profesores de universidad: Otto Octavius, Curt Connors y Michael Morbius se convierten en temidos villanos tras una serie de experimentos para sanar sus enfermedades. Además, debido a su inteligencia y labor de tutor descubre la identidad secreta de Spider-Man, lo que complica más si cabe la situación. Al inicio de la película, Miles pierde en un accidente a su padre el mismo día en el que adquiere sus poderes. Consumido por la rabia y la ira decide tratar de tomarse la justicia por su cuenta hasta que Peter le frena y decide entrenarle para que se una a su cruzada. Además, Peter pasa por un mal momento en su relación con M.J. debido a los estudios y el tiempo perdido. Mientras, en la universidad conoce a Cynthia Moon, quien esconde su alter ego de Silk, e inician una relación de puro morbo. Harry se va de la ciudad para buscar una cura que acabe con la enfermedad de su padre y la Tía May consigue lidiar de mejor manera el alzheimer. Finalmente, Spidey salva la ciudad al borde de la muerte y se retira temporalmente, dejando a Miles la responsabilidad de proteger la ciudad. La película termina con una estatua conmemorativa en honor al arácnido mientras que Peter mira hacia el futuro sabiendo que el legado del héroe está en buenas manos.
