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
All Movies (21)
- Once Upon a Time in a Cinema2026 · as Earl Clancy
- Long Day's Journey into Night2025 · as Edmund Tyrone
- The Dead Don't Hurt2024 · as Lewis Cartwright
- Dead Shot2023 · as Michael O'Hara
- Corsage2022 · as Bay Middleton
- Belfast2021 · as Billy Clanton
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons2019 · as Chris Keller
- Benjamin2019 · as Benjamin
- National Theatre Collection: Translations2018 · as Owen
- The Happy Prince2018 · as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
- Waiting for You2017 · as Paul Ashton
- The Huntsman: Winter's War2016 · as Duke of Blackwood
- The Laughing King2016 · as Jake
- Legend2015 · as Frank Shea
- Testament of Youth2015 · as Victor Richardson
- The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe2014 · as Ariel
- Island2011 · as Calum
- Parked2010 · as Cathal O'Regan
- The Real Merlin and Arthur2009 · as Colin Morgan
- The Rising: 1916— · as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
- Heartless—
All TV Shows (19)
- Dead and Buried2024 · as Michael McAllister
- The Boy That Never Was2024 · as Harry Lonergan
- The Chronicles of Armagh2024 · as (voice)
- The Killing Kind2023 · as John Webster
- Mammals2022 · as Jeff Wilson
- The Sandman2022 · as Sexton
- Three Families2021 · as Jonathan Kennedy
- Chronicles of the Glens2021 · as Narrator
- We Hunt Together2020 · as Liam Gates
- The Crown2016 · as John Armstrong
- The Living and the Dead2016 · as Nathan Appleby
- Humans2015 · as Leo Elster
- Quirke2014 · as Jimmy Minor
- The Fall2013 · as Tom Anderson
- Merlin: Secrets and Magic2009 · as Self
- Merlin2008 · as Merlin
- The One Show2006 · as Self
- Doctor Who2005 · as Jethro Cane
- The Emperor's Stone—