In the years following those films, Morrissey had roles in "The Reaping" (2007), "Sense and Sensibility" (2008), "Red Riding" (2009), "Nowhere Boy" (2009), and "Centurion" (2010). He also produced and starred in the crime drama "Thorne" (2010). Morrissey returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's "In a Dark Dark House" and played the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of "Macbeth" in 2011. He also starred in the British crime film "Blitz" (2011), playing a morally dubious reporter in contact with the eponymous cop killer. He later portrayed The Governor in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of the AMC horror-drama series "The Walking Dead".