Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 1, 1986
Place of Birth:
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Social Media
Colin Morgan
Biography
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He is known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008–2012), Leo Elster in Humans (2015–2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021).
Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He went on to appear in the theatre productions Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre ("All About My Mother") in 2007, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life in 2011, Step in Time at The Old Vic 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala in 2012, Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2013, and Jez Butterworth's Mojo during 2013 and 2014.
In July 2008, Screen International named Morgan as a "Star of Tomorrow". For his performance in Merlin, Morgan was nominated for Outstanding Actor (Drama) in the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and Best Actor in Drama Performance: Male in the National Television Awards in 2013.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Edmund Tyrone |
| 2024 | The Dead Don't Hurt | Lewis Cartwright |
| 2023 | Dead Shot | Michael O'Hara |
| 2022 | Corsage | Bay Middleton |
| 2021 | Belfast | Billy Clanton |
| 2019 | Benjamin | Benjamin |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: All My Sons | Chris Keller |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince | Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas |
| 2018 | National Theatre Collection: Translations | Owen |
| 2017 | Waiting for You | Paul Ashton |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Duke of Blackwood |
| 2016 | The Laughing King | Jake |
| 2015 | Testament of Youth | Victor Richardson |
| 2015 | Legend | Frank Shea |
| 2014 | The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe | Ariel |
| 2011 | Island | Calum |
| 2010 | Parked | Cathal O'Regan |
| 2009 | The Real Merlin and Arthur | Colin Morgan |
| The Rising: 1916 | Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott | |
| One Night Only | Earl Clancy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dead and Buried | Michael McAllister |
| 2024 | The Chronicles of Armagh | (voice) |
| 2024 | The Boy That Never Was | Harry Dillon |
| 2023 | The Killing Kind | John Webster |
| 2022 | Mammals | Jeff Wilson |
| 2021 | Chronicles of the Glens | Narrator |
| 2021 | Three Families | Johnathan |
| 2020 | We Hunt Together | |
| 2016 | The Living and the Dead | Nathan Appleby |
| 2016 | The Crown | John Armstrong |
| 2015 | Humans | Leo Elster |
| 2014 | Quirke | Jimmy Minor |
| 2013 | The Fall | Tom Anderson |
| 2009 | Merlin: Secrets and Magic | |
| 2008 | Merlin | Merlin |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Jethro Cane |