Colin Morgan
Acting • Born 1986-01-01
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.
Filmography
39 credits
Belfast
Movie • 2021
Billy Clanton
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie • 2025
Edmund Tyrone
Corsage
Movie • 2022
Bay Middleton
Island
Movie • 2011
Calum
Parked
Movie • 2010
Cathal O'Regan
Dead Shot
Movie • 2023
Michael O'Hara
Testament of Youth
Movie • 2015
Victor Richardson
Legend
Movie • 2015
Frank Shea
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie • 2014
Ariel
The Dead Don't Hurt
Movie • 2024
Lewis Cartwright
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Movie • 2016
Duke of Blackwood
The Rising: 1916
Movie
Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
The Laughing King
Movie • 2016
Jake
Waiting for You
Movie • 2017
Paul Ashton
The Happy Prince
Movie • 2018
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Benjamin
Movie • 2019
Benjamin
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie • 2019
Chris Keller
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Movie • 2018
Owen
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Movie • 2009
Colin Morgan
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Movie • 2026
Earl Clancy
Heartless
Movie
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Chronicles of the Glens
TV • 2021
Narrator
Merlin
TV • 2008
Merlin
Three Families
TV • 2021
Johnathan
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
TV • 2009
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Jethro Cane
Humans
TV • 2015
Leo Elster
The Killing Kind
TV • 2023
John Webster
The Living and the Dead
TV • 2016
Nathan Appleby
The Fall
TV • 2013
Tom Anderson
We Hunt Together
TV • 2020
Liam Gates
Dead and Buried
TV • 2024
Michael McAllister
The Chronicles of Armagh
TV • 2024
(voice)
Mammals
TV • 2022
Jeff Wilson
The Crown
TV • 2016
John Armstrong
Quirke
TV • 2014
Jimmy Minor
The Boy That Never Was
TV • 2024
Harry Lonergan
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Sexton