Colin Morgan

Birthday: 1986-01-01
Birthplace: Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
The Rising: 1916 Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
One Night Only Earl Clancy
2025-02-28 Long Day's Journey into Night Edmund Tyrone
2024-05-01 The Dead Don't Hurt Lewis Cartwright
2023-08-18 Dead Shot Michael O'Hara
2022-07-07 Corsage Bay Middleton
2021-11-12 Belfast Billy Clanton
2019-05-14 National Theatre Live: All My Sons Chris Keller
2019-03-15 Benjamin Benjamin
2018-07-31 National Theatre Collection: Translations Owen
2018-04-12 The Happy Prince Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
2017-02-24 Waiting for You Paul Ashton
2016-04-06 The Huntsman: Winter's War Duke of Blackwood
2016-01-12 The Laughing King Jake
2015-09-09 Legend Frank Shea
2014-10-14 Testament of Youth Victor Richardson
2014-05-28 The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Ariel
2011-04-22 Island Calum
2010-09-01 Parked Cathal O'Regan
2009-11-22 The Real Merlin & Arthur Colin Morgan