Colin Morgan
Biography
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He was born in 1986 in Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He has appeared in various theatre productions, including Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter, Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Morgan is also known for his television roles, including the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin, Leo Elster in Humans, and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast. He has a total of 40 known credits in the acting field.
Career overview
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He made his London theatre debut in 2007, playing the title character in the play Vernon God Little. Morgan also appeared in other theatre productions, including Todo sobre mi madre in 2007, A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, Our Private Life in 2011, The Tempest in 2013, and Mojo in 2013 and 2014.
Morgan's television career includes playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin, which aired from 2008 to 2012. He also appeared in the TV series Humans, playing the role of Leo Elster, from 2015 to 2018. In addition, Morgan played the role of Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast, released in 2021.
Throughout his career, Morgan has accumulated 40 known credits. Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, Morgan's acting career spans multiple mediums, including theatre and television.
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- Once Upon a Time in a Cinema (2026) as Earl Clancy
- Long Day's Journey into Night (2025) as Edmund Tyrone
- The Dead Don't Hurt (2024) as Lewis Cartwright
- The Boy That Never Was (2024) as Harry Lonergan
- Dead and Buried (2024) as Michael McAllister
- The Chronicles of Armagh (2024) as (voice)
- The Killing Kind (2023) as John Webster
- Dead Shot (2023) as Michael O'Hara
- The Sandman (2022) as Sexton
- Corsage (2022) as Bay Middleton
- Mammals (2022) as Jeff Wilson
- Belfast (2021) as Billy Clanton
- Three Families (2021) as Jonathan Kennedy
- Chronicles of the Glens (2021) as Narrator
- We Hunt Together (2020) as Liam Gates
- Benjamin (2019) as Benjamin
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2019) as Chris Keller
- The Happy Prince (2018) as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
- National Theatre Collection: Translations (2018) as Owen
- Waiting for You (2017) as Paul Ashton
- The Crown (2016) as John Armstrong
- The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) as Duke of Blackwood
- The Living and the Dead (2016) as Nathan Appleby
- The Laughing King (2016) as Jake
- Humans (2015) as Leo Elster
- Legend (2015) as Frank Shea
- Testament of Youth (2015) as Victor Richardson
- Quirke (2014) as Jimmy Minor
- The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2014) as Ariel
- The Fall (2013) as Tom Anderson
- Island (2011) as Calum
- Parked (2010) as Cathal O'Regan
- Merlin: Secrets and Magic (2009) as Self
- The Real Merlin and Arthur (2009) as Colin Morgan
- Merlin (2008) as Merlin
- The One Show (2006) as Self
- Doctor Who (2005) as Jethro Cane
- Heartless
- The Emperor's Stone
- The Rising: 1916 as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott