Colin Morgan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1986 (age 40)
- Birthplace
- Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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.
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Filmography
The Rising: 1916
Movie · as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
Heartless
Movie
The Emperor's Stone: The Search of La Buse's Treasure
TV · as Theo Levasseur · 6 eps
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie · as Edmund Tyrone
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Movie · as Earl Clancy
The Dead Don't Hurt
Movie · as Lewis Cartwright
Dead and Buried
TV · as Michael McAllister · 4 eps
The Chronicles of Armagh
TV · as (voice) · 4 eps
The Boy That Never Was
TV · as Harry Lonergan · 4 eps
Dead Shot
Movie · as Michael O'Hara
The Killing Kind
TV · as John Webster · 6 eps
Corsage
Movie · as Bay Middleton
Mammals
TV · as Jeff Wilson · 6 eps
The Sandman
TV · as Sexton · 1 ep
Belfast
Movie · as Billy Clanton
Chronicles of the Glens
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Three Families
TV · as Jonathan Kennedy · 2 eps
We Hunt Together
TV · as Liam Gates · 6 eps
Trying
TV · as Kerry · 2 eps
Benjamin
Movie · as Benjamin
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie · as Chris Keller
Mountain Vets
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
The Happy Prince
Movie · as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Movie · as Owen
Waiting for You
Movie · as Paul Ashton
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Movie · as Duke of Blackwood
The Laughing King
Movie · as Jake
The Living and the Dead
TV · as Nathan Appleby · 6 eps
The Crown
TV · as John Armstrong · 1 ep
Testament of Youth
Movie · as Victor Richardson
Legend
Movie · as Frank Shea
Humans
TV · as Leo Elster · 24 eps
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie · as Ariel
Quirke
TV · as Jimmy Minor · 1 ep
The Fall
TV · as Tom Anderson · 12 eps
Island
Movie · as Calum
Parked
Movie · as Cathal O'Regan
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Movie · as Colin Morgan
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
TV · as Self · 14 eps
Merlin
TV · as Merlin · 65 eps
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Jethro Cane · 1 ep