Colin Morgan
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
Credits
- 2025 · Long Day's Journey Into Night as Edmund Tyrone
- 2024 · Dead and Buried as Michael McAllister
- 2024 · The Boy That Never Was as Harry Dillon
- 2024 · The Dead Don't Hurt as Lewis Cartwright
- 2024 · The Chronicles of Armagh as (voice)
- 2023 · The Killing Kind as John Webster
- 2023 · Dead Shot as Michael O'Hara
- 2022 · Mammals as Jeff Wilson
- 2022 · Corsage as Bay Middleton
- 2021 · Belfast as Billy Clanton
- 2021 · Three Families as Johnathan
- 2021 · Chronicles of the Glens as Narrator
- 2020 · We Hunt Together as
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Chris Keller
- 2019 · Benjamin as Benjamin
- 2018 · National Theatre Collection: Translations as Owen
- 2018 · The Happy Prince as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
- 2017 · Waiting for You as Paul Ashton
- 2016 · The Crown as John Armstrong
- 2016 · The Living and the Dead as Nathan Appleby
- 2016 · The Huntsman: Winter's War as Duke of Blackwood
- 2016 · The Laughing King as Jake
- 2015 · Legend as Frank Shea
- 2015 · Humans as Leo Elster
- 2014 · Testament of Youth as Victor Richardson
- 2014 · The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Ariel
- 2014 · Quirke as Jimmy Minor
- 2013 · The Fall as Tom Anderson
- 2011 · Island as Calum
- 2010 · Parked as Cathal O'Regan
- 2009 · The Real Merlin & Arthur as Colin Morgan
- 2009 · Merlin: Secrets and Magic as
- 2008 · Merlin as Merlin
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Jethro Cane
- Future · One Night Only as Earl Clancy
- Future · The Rising: 1916 as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott