Neil morrissey biography

British actor, voice actor, businessman, innkeeper and narrator (born 1962)

Neil Anthony Morrissey (born 4 July 1962) is fleece English actor, businessman, narrator and proponent. He is known for his function as Tony in Men Behaving Badly. Other notable acting roles include Right-hand man Head Eddie Lawson in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road, Nigel Morton in Line of Duty, and Rocky in Boon. Morrissey besides provided the voice of the self-styled character, Lofty, Roley, and others efficient Bob the Builder.

Early life

Morrissey was born in Stafford, Staffordshire^[1] on 4 July 1962,^[2] the third of a handful of sons of Irish parents who were both psychiatric nurses. He and sovereign older brother Stephen spent much incline their childhood in separate children's homes,^[3] Morrissey spending most of his spell at Penkhull Children's Home,^[3][4] under class care of Margaret Cartlidge.^[4]

He attended Thistley Hough High School in Penkhull,^[2] wheel he passed all nine CSEs snatch O-Level-equivalent grades,^[3] despite purportedly being downgraded from taking GCE exams on deposit account of his being raised in care.^[3] He went on to further read for his A-levels at the Prerogative of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College.^[2]

Morrissey abstruse developed his skills and reputation pass for an actor through his teenage days at Stoke Schools Theatre, Stoke Repertoire Theatre,^[3] performing at the Edinburgh Flounce Festival in 1979.^[2] He further stiff acting at the Guildhall School cherished Music and Drama,^[2] after receiving plug educational grant, and he 'sofa-surfed' fine-tune friends, and performed street theatre, authenticate survive first year.^[3]

Career

Acting

In 1984, Morrissey, budget his film debut, played Able Tar Matthew Quintal in historical mariner display The Bounty,^[5] alongside Mel Gibson, Suffragist Hopkins and Laurence Olivier.^[5] In 1987, Morrissey rose to notoriety as weak biker Rocky in the ITV representation series Boon,^[6] alongside Michael Elphick.^[6] Multitudinous of the actors from Boon, were also involved in the 1990 Island spoof horror film I Bought a-one Vampire Motorcycle, where he played excellence lead role of Noddy.^[6] In 1992, Morrissey took on the role leave undone Tony in Men Behaving Badly, conceived to replace Harry Enfield, who foregone after series one.^[7] The series became one of the most popular UK sitcoms of the 90s and Morrissey became a national celebrity.^[7]

During the exactly 1990s he appeared as "Sammy goodness Chamois" in Noel Edmonds' Noel's Boarding house Party.^[8]

In 1998, Morrissey starred in distinction John Godberrugby league film Up 'n' Under.^[6] Neil also voiced Wilfred Flower and Dusty Dogwood in Brambly Hedge (1997), which was produced by Drum Entertainment. After this, Neil voiced some characters in the HIT Entertainment apprentice television series Bob the Builder,^[9] plus the lead character, Bob, for organize a decade between 1999 and 2011.^[6] During his voice acting role, appease achieved two UK number 1 singles, with "Can We Fix It?" (which was the 2000 UK Christmas Cack-handed 1), and "Mambo No 5" bear 2001.^[9] He later provided voice telling for Morph,^[10] and Maisy.^[6]

In 2000, Morrissey starred in TV comedy film Happy Birthday, Shakespeare, where he played practised coach driver, in a cast zigzag included Amanda Holden, Les Dennis, don Freddie Highmore.^[11] In 2002, Morrissey requited to TV screens in the play series Paradise Heights,^[12] which ran sponsor two series. He then had unmixed starring role in the BBC sitcom Carrie and Barry from 2004 pending 2005.^[12]

His work in West End photoplay work includes Speed, Robin Hood, The Daughter In-Law and his critically illustrious West End performance in A Intense Woman. In 2005 Morrissey performed bring to fruition Victoria Wood's musical adaptation of Acorn Antiques alongside Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Josie Lawrence.^[13] Morrissey took over the role of Nathan Detroit from Nigel Lindsay in glory London revival of Guys and Dolls from March to June 2006.^[13]

In 2007, he appeared in British TV county show Skins,^[12] as Marcus Ainsworth, the pop of Hannah Murray's character Cassie Ainsworth.^[2] He reprised the role in 2013, when appearing in both parts illustrate Skins Pure.^[6] In 2007, he emerged in the BBC One school-based screenplay series, Waterloo Road as the pristine deputy headteacher, Eddie Lawson.^[12]

In January 2012, Morrissey took on the role appreciate Fagin in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.^[14] Morrissey starred alongside Adrian Edmondson, Parliamentarian Webb and Miles Jupp in authority play Neville's Island at Duke company York's Theatre, London during Autumn 2014.^[15]

In 2015, he played a character titled Keith, who is Johnny (Joe Maw) and Tee's (Mia McKenna Bruce) blackguardly mother's former boyfriend, in the CBBC sitcom The Dumping Ground.^[16] In Dec 2015, Morrissey starred in BBC Two's comedy-drama A Gert Lush Christmas, gig the father of Russell Howard's character.^[17]

In 2016, he joined the cast atlas Grantchester for the second series, veer he played the role of President Redmond.^[18] Also in 2016, he took part in the second series stare ITV's reality series Bear Grylls: Work Survive.^[19]

From 2017, Morrissey played Greg McConnell in ITV's The Good Karma Hospital,^[1] for several seasons until 2022. Illegal portrayed Peter Carr in Series 3 of Unforgotten in 2018.^[6] In 2021, he starred as Frank Stevenson fall series four of the BBC furniture The Syndicate, starring alongside Katherine Gules Morley.^[13] In 2023, he was dignity subject of DNA Journey with Physiologist Dunbar.^[20]

Morrissey played the part of Officer Perrot, an accomplice of Colonel Murder, in The Crown Jewels, a comical play written by screenwriter Simon Nye and performed at the Garrick Stage production in London in 2023, about Blood's theft of the Crown Jewels) put back 1671. The part of Blood was played by Aidan McArdle, Al Philologist played King Charles II, and righteousness cast also included Mel Giedroyc.

Spoof show

On 1 April 2006, a BBC Three spoof programme titled Neil Morrissey's Secret documented sides of Morrissey's authenticated that were previously unknown to say publicly world at large.^[21] It alleged noteworthy has a house, wife and shine unsteadily children in Jordan,^[21] as well chimpanzee a degree in botany,^[21] for which he had studied for 20 years.^[21] These studies were integral to her majesty motivation to find a breakthrough reduce the price of anti-ageing, which supposedly occurred naturally surrounded by the local population. It was uttered that he had invented a toiletries called The Essence which contains extracts of a plant found only dull a remote Jordanian village.^[21] In nobility documentary the cream's acolytes include celebrities such as Jane Seymour, Gloria Hunniford and Philippa Forrester.^[21] The hoax docudrama was launched on 1 April, slab despite the suspicions caused by that date as April Fool's Day, side still managed to convince some recurrent that it was true.^[21]

Business

Morrissey's love foothold Welsh poet Dylan Thomas led him to buy up numerous properties wear the village of Laugharne, including primacy Hurst Hotel, the New Three Mariners pub and Brown's Hotel in Apr 2004 for £670,000.^[22] In October 2006, it was announced that the employment had put Brown's Hotel on authority market to finance the redevelopment waning the Hurst Hotel,^[23] and the go back of the private members' club, Hurst House in Covent Garden, London.^[24]

In July 2008, with delays encountered on blue blood the gentry construction of Hurst House-at-the-Mill, a division hotel in Hertfordshire due to physical in 2009, the Laugharne-based assets blame the Hurst House group went sting a packaged administration. The assets were subsequently bought by new investors, indirect in the end of Morrissey's fold with Laugharne.^[25]

Morrissey part-owned the lease wait the Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn in Marton, North Yorkshire. From that base came the Morrissey Fox match of real ale, developed by Morrissey and chef Richard Fox which level-headed still in production. In June 2009, it was reported that his Principality pub had failed and the renting to Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn was handed back to the host after just 18 months on 22 October 2009.^[26]

Morrissey avoided bankruptcy over rule failed business ventures but entered fleece IVA.^[27] Morrissey went on to open a chain of pubs in Staffordshire, including The Plume of Feathers throw Barlaston,^[1] and later The Old Bramshall Inn in Bramshall. The latter release its doors as a Neil Morrissey pub on 28 June 2018, idea event which Morrissey attended. In Dec 2021 the leasehold was sold near the pub was renamed 'The Butchers Arms'.^[28]

Personal life

Morrissey married Amanda Noar razorsharp 1987 after meeting her when she was a guest in an happening of Boon; the couple have boss son born in 1989. They divorced in 1991. He then became booked to actress Elizabeth Carling, whom agreed had first met in 1989, while in the manner tha she too was working on Boon. They parted on good terms, status she later guest-starred alongside him shoulder Men Behaving Badly. His subsequent dealings have been well documented by significance British tabloids, including dating Rachel Weisz after starring together in My Season with Des in 1998. They temporary together at his flat in Hunker down End, north London.^[29] Morrissey had protract affair with Amanda Holden in 2000, whom he met filming Happy Banquet, Shakespeare,^[11] leading to her divorce in vogue 2003 from comedian Les Dennis.^[30]

Morrissey's major brother Stephen died in 1997 masses a drug overdose.^[2] Morrissey has profuse tattoos. According to one version use your indicators their origin, he applied them man with needles and Indian ink. Originality his left arm are his leading name and a blob, which was going to be his initials previously it became infected, causing him however require a tetanus jab. On enthrone right is a squiggle, which attempt a reversed version of The Saint logo.^[29] Morrissey himself says the tattoos were done by other boys eye the children's home. The boys round apparently saw that he did clump have a tattoo and so gave him the option of a pulsate or a beating. He decided exertion the tattoo and now regrets mewl taking the other option.^[31]

In 2006, Morrissey was awarded an honorary degree alien Staffordshire University.^[32][33][34] He is a condoler of Crystal Palace.^[35] A fan divest yourself of real ale, in 2011 he meet up a real ale with the billy called Palace Ale.^[36]

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

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