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He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in The Deal , Stephen Collins in State of Play , and The Governor in the third , fourth , and fifth seasons of The Walking Dead — He has also acted extensively on stage with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre.

Morrissey has directed short films and the television dramas Sweet Revenge and Passer By He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edge Hill University in David Mark Joseph Morrissey [ 1 ] was born in the Kensington area of Liverpool on 21 June , [ 2 ] [ citation needed ] the son of Littlewoods employee Joan and cobbler Joe Morrissey.

Decades later, as part of National Museums Liverpool 's Eight Hundred Lives project, Morrissey wrote that the house had been in his family since at least ; his grandmother had been married there and his mother was born there.

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In , the family moved to a larger and more modern house on the new estates at Knotty Ash , while Seldon Street was later demolished. Morrissey was greatly interested in film, television, and Gene Kelly musicals as a child. Keller left the school soon after, leaving him without encouragement. For the first couple of weeks, he was quite shy and did not join in with the workshops.

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When he eventually participated, he ended up appearing in their production of Fighting Chance , a play about the riots in Liverpool. By the age of 14, Morrissey was one of two youth theatre members who sat on the board of the Everyman Theatre. Russell had been attached to the Everyman for many years, and Morrissey had seen him while he was working behind the bar downstairs from the theatre, though the two had never been introduced.

McGann, five years older than Morrissey, believed that he was too old to be playing the part of year-old Billy and stepped back from the production, leaving the role to go to Morrissey. Russell had a professional disagreement with the director Gordon Flemyng and producer Keith Richardson over the casting of year-old Morrissey and Leigh; he believed that the sympathy of year-olds running away was lost by casting older actors.