
Colin Morgan
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1986-01-01 (39 years old)
Place of Birth
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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.
Acting
The Rising: 1916
as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
One Night Only
as Earl Clancy
(2025)
Long Day's Journey into Night
as Edmund Tyrone
(2024)
The Dead Don't Hurt
as Lewis Cartwright
(2023)
Dead Shot
as Michael O'Hara
(2022)
Corsage
as Bay Middleton
(2021)
Belfast
as Billy Clanton
(2019)
Benjamin
as Benjamin
(2019)
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
as Chris Keller
(2018)
The Happy Prince
as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
(2018)
(2017)
Waiting for You
as Paul Ashton
(2016)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Duke of Blackwood
(2016)
The Laughing King
as Jake
(2015)
Legend
as Frank Shea
(2015)
Testament of Youth
as Victor Richardson
(2014)
(2011)
Island
as Calum
(2010)
Parked
as Cathal O'Regan
(2009)
The Real Merlin and Arthur
as Colin Morgan