Who Am I This Time? with David Morrissey

Coral Messam is an Actor, Movement Director/Practitioner and Wellness Instructor with over 24 years of experience in performance and movement practice.  Included in her movement work is intimacy consultancy direction in TV and film.

Jamie Matthewman is a voice, dialect and acting coach working in film, TV, Theatre, Education and the corporate world. He trained as an actor, and subsequently as a voice and dialect coach, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Stephanie Carey has been a  Professional Stuntwoman on the British Stunt Register for over 20 years working in film and television. She specialises in combat and is one of a handful of active competitive female precision drivers in the UK.

David was delighted that they all agreed to share with him the unique way they contribute to the actors process of building a character earlier this year.

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Multi award winning actor Jonathan Pryce has been working in Theatre, Film and Television for more than five decades. His work in theatre includes an award-winning  Hamlet at the Royal Court in 1980 and as The Engineer in Miss Saigon in London and New York.

He’s appeared in films as eclectic as Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, Glengarry Glen Ross and The Age of Innocence. In 2019, he earned his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Pope Francis in the film The Two Popes.

His television work includes Thomas Wolsey in Wolf Hall, the High Sparrow in Game of Thrones and Prince Philip in the final two seasons of The Crown.

His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam's satirical, dystopian, black comedy Brazil and David was delighted he agreed to talk to him about that experience earlier this year.

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The theatre director Peter Hall referred to Geraldine James as one of the great English classical actresses. Graduating from the Drama Centre she embarked on a theatre career that would see her nominated for a Tony and winning the Drama Desk Award for her role as Portia in the Broadway revival of The Merchant Of Venice.

Her film credits include Gandhi, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and 45 Years. Since 2017, she has starred in the Netflix series Anne With An E. Geraldine has been nominated four times for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; for Dummy, Band Of Gold, The Sins and The Jewel In The Crown where she played the character Sarah Layton. David caught up with her to talk about that experience earlier this year.

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Don Warrington has an extensive list of credits across Film, Television and Theatre 

including Death in Paradise, Cat’s Eyes, and Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet as well as starring roles at the National Theatre, the RSC and at Manchester’s Royal Exchange. One of his first roles was playing Philip Smith in the comedy series Rising Damp, alongside Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, and Frances de la Tour. David caught up with him earlier this year to talk about that life changing experience.

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Multi award winning actor Brian Cox is familiar to the theatre going public all over the world. He also has a distinguished career in Film and TV including roles in Rushmore, The Bourne Identity, and Zodiac as well as being the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter. He currently stars as media magnate Logan Roy, in HBO's critically acclaimed series Succession for which he won the Golden Globe and was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. David was delighted to be able to catch up with him to talk about it earlier this year.

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Adeel was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role on Channel 4's Utopia, before becoming the first non-white actor to win a BAFTA award in a leading role for the single drama Murdered By My Father.  He also received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ali & Ava. But in 2010 he appeared in the Chris Morris film Four Lions and David was delighted to catch up with him to talk about it at the beginning of this year.  

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Award winning, critically acclaimed and universally loved, Lesley Manville is a distinctive theatre actress, appearing in classical and new plays at the RSC, the NT and the Royal Court Theatre over the last three decades. She received BAFTA and Academy award nominations for her portrayal of the character Cyril Woodcock in the 2017 film Phantom Thread and David was delighted to be able to talk to her about it earlier this year.

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