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
Rick Arthur
for Rick Arthur in The Hunters: From the World of Swordsmoke
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The Hunters opens on Ares Island as Norman Ryder jolts awake in an attic. A teenage girl enters, asking how long he’s been conscious. She introduces herself as Mindy Maron, explaining she found him unconscious on the shore and disarmed him. Norman demands his weapons and directions back to Hermes Island. She offers a ride instead, warning him ferries are scarce because the Hunters have been extorting the docks. Norman insists that’s impossible, he created the Hunters. Mindy explains they now control Ares under Rick Arthur. Norman decides he needs to see Rick. With no cell service, shut down by the Hunters—they head out. At a Hunter toll, Norman kills a guard before alarms sound. A chase ends in a crash. They are captured. They are brought to the harbor to meet Rick, who knows exactly who Norman is. Rick brings Mindy out before shooting her, then releasing Norman. Norman drifts into a bar, where a woman named Emma approaches. She offers him a chance at revenge—introducing him to Ashton Knight and Red Carraway. With a hit planned for the docks, Norman agrees to help. At an outpost, Ashton dies, but Norman takes control, executing a Hunter, warning the others. At the docks, Norman confronts Rick, disarms him, and kills him. Holding Rick’s body, Norman declares himself the leader. The men kneel. The film ends with Norman on a fishing boat beside Emma, warning that power never comes without challengers. He sends a message to Ellie Smith with his coordinates: The Hunters are back.
