Neil Morrissey
Other notable acting roles include Deputy Head Eddie Lawson in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road, Nigel Morton in Line of Duty, and Rocky in Boon.[4] He attended Thistley Hough High School in Penkhull,[2] where he passed all nine CSEs with O-Level-equivalent grades,[3] despite purportedly being downgraded from taking GCE exams on account of his being raised in care.[2] He further studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,[2] after receiving an educational grant, and he 'sofa-surfed' with friends, and performed street theatre, to survive first year.[3] In 1984, Morrissey, in his film debut, played Able Seaman Matthew Quintal in historical mariner drama The Bounty,[5] alongside Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier.[6] Many of the actors from Boon, were also involved in the 1990 British spoof horror film I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, where he played the lead role of Noddy.[6] In 2000, Morrissey starred in TV comedy film Happy Birthday, Shakespeare, where he played a coach driver, in a cast that included Amanda Holden, Les Dennis, and Freddie Highmore.In 2005 Morrissey performed in Victoria Wood's musical adaptation of Acorn Antiques alongside Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Josie Lawrence.[14] Morrissey starred alongside Adrian Edmondson, Robert Webb and Miles Jupp in the play Neville's Island at Duke of York's Theatre, London during Autumn 2014.[15] In 2015, he played a character called Keith, who is Johnny (Joe Maw) and Tee's (Mia McKenna Bruce) villainous mother's former boyfriend, in the CBBC sitcom The Dumping Ground.In June 2009, it was reported that his Welsh pub had failed and the lease to Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn was handed back to the owner after just 18 months on 22 October 2009.[29] Morrissey had an affair with Amanda Holden in 2000, whom he met filming Happy Birthday, Shakespeare,[11] leading to her divorce in 2003 from comedian Les Dennis.
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