6.3
Movie
Acting
Colin Morgan
- Born
- (age 40)
- Birthplace
- Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
- Credits
- 42 titles
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.
Signature work
Known For
6.3
Movie
7.0
Movie
Legend
7.6
TV
Doctor Who
7.8
TV
The Sandman
8.2
TV
The Crown
7.0
Movie
Belfast
7.8
TV
Merlin
7.7
TV
The Fall
7.2
Movie
Testament of Youth
7.5
TV
Humans
6.1
Movie
Corsage
6.5
Movie
The Dead Don't Hurt
6.2
Movie
The Happy Prince
7.6
TV
Trying
6.1
Movie
Benjamin
5.4
Movie
Dead Shot
6.7
TV
The Living and the Dead
6.5
Movie
Parked
Acting credits 42
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | The Rising: 1916 Film | Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott |
| TBA | Heartless Film | |
| TBA | The Emperor's Stone: The Search of La Buse's Treasure TV | Theo Levasseur (6 ep) |
| 2026 | Long Day's Journey into Night Film | Edmund Tyrone |
| 2026 | Once Upon a Time in a Cinema Film | Earl Clancy |
| 2024 | Dead and Buried TV | Michael McAllister (4 ep) |
| 2024 | The Boy That Never Was TV | Harry Lonergan (4 ep) |
| 2024 | The Dead Don't Hurt Film | Lewis Cartwright |
| 2024 | The Chronicles of Armagh TV | (voice) (4 ep) |
| 2023 | The Killing Kind TV | John Webster (6 ep) |
| 2023 | Dead Shot Film | Michael O'Hara |
| 2022 | Mammals TV | Jeff Wilson (6 ep) |
| 2022 | The Sandman TV | Sexton (1 ep) |
| 2022 | Corsage Film | Bay Middleton |
| 2021 | Belfast Film | Billy Clanton |
| 2021 | Three Families TV | Jonathan Kennedy (2 ep) |
| 2021 | Chronicles of the Glens TV | Narrator (4 ep) |
| 2020 | We Hunt Together TV | Liam Gates (6 ep) |
| 2020 | Trying TV | Kerry (2 ep) |
| 2019 | Mountain Vets TV | Self - Narrator (voice) (6 ep) |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: All My Sons Film | Chris Keller |
| 2019 | Benjamin Film | Benjamin |
| 2018 | National Theatre Collection: Translations Film | Owen |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince Film | Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas |
| 2017 | Waiting for You Film | Paul Ashton |
| 2016 | The Crown TV | John Armstrong (1 ep) |
| 2016 | The Living and the Dead TV | Nathan Appleby (6 ep) |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War Film | Duke of Blackwood |
| 2016 | The Laughing King Film | Jake |
| 2015 | Legend Film | Frank Shea |
| 2015 | Humans TV | Leo Elster (24 ep) |
| 2015 | Testament of Youth Film | Victor Richardson |
| 2014 | The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Film | Ariel |
| 2014 | Quirke TV | Jimmy Minor (1 ep) |
| 2013 | The Fall TV | Tom Anderson (12 ep) |
| 2011 | Island Film | Calum |
| 2010 | Parked Film | Cathal O'Regan |
| 2009 | The Real Merlin and Arthur Film | Colin Morgan |
| 2009 | Merlin: Secrets and Magic TV | Self (14 ep) |
| 2008 | Merlin TV | Merlin (65 ep) |
| 2006 | The One Show TV | Self (1 ep) |
| 2005 | Doctor Who TV | Jethro Cane (1 ep) |