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Neil Morrissey and Adoption
Biography
Morrissey and his brother Stephen were taken into care as boys after several incidents of shoplifting. They remained in contact with their family, but Neil soon became involved in children's theater and chose to remain in a children's home through adolescence, where he could continue in acting. When he was 18 he went on to drama school.
His TV credits include Boon, The Journal, Follow Through, Roll over, Beethoven, Travellers by Night, Playing Away, Blood Runner, Gentlemen and Players, Ellis Island, Pulaski and Paris, Stuck on You, A Woman's Guide to Adultery and Men Behaving Badly.
References
Golden, James. "Death No-One Noticed," Daily Mail [London], 3 December 1997, p. 15
Categories:
- Adoption Celebrities
- Adopted Persons
- European
- UK/Great Britain
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Theater, Broadcasting, Cinema
- Criminal Convictions, Imprisonment
- School-age Years, Adolescence
- Child Removed from Home by Social Services
- Child Committed Criminal Offenses
- Institutional Care
- Birth Siblings Placed Together
- Birth Sibling(s) Remained With or Returned to Birth Family
- Always in Contact or Knew Identities