Colin Morgan
Acting
Born: 1986-01-01 in 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.
Known For
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Duke of Blackwood
Legend
Frank Shea
Doctor Who
Jethro Cane
The Sandman
Sexton
The Crown
John Armstrong
Belfast
Billy Clanton
Merlin
Merlin
The Fall
Tom Anderson
Testament of Youth
Victor Richardson
Humans
Leo Elster
Corsage
Bay Middleton
The Dead Don't Hurt
Lewis Cartwright
The Happy Prince
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Trying
Kerry
Benjamin
Benjamin
Dead Shot
Michael O'Hara
The Living and the Dead
Nathan Appleby
Parked
Cathal O'Regan
We Hunt Together
Liam Gates
The One Show
Self
Mammals
Jeff Wilson
Quirke
Jimmy Minor
The Killing Kind
John Webster
Island
Calum
Waiting for You
Paul Ashton
The Boy That Never Was
Harry Lonergan
Dead and Buried
Michael McAllister
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
Self
Three Families
Jonathan Kennedy
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Ariel
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Chris Keller
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Colin Morgan
The Laughing King
Jake
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Earl Clancy
Chronicles of the Glens
Narrator
Mountain Vets
Self - Narrator (voice)
Long Day's Journey into Night
Edmund Tyrone
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Owen