Colin Morgan
Acting
Born: January 1, 1986 (age 40) · Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Highest Rated
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
2016
Legend
2015
Doctor Who
2005
The Sandman
2022
The Crown
2016
Belfast
2021
Merlin
2008
The Fall
2013
Testament of Youth
2015
Humans
2015
Corsage
2022
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
Photos (2)
Movies (19)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Duke of Blackwood
Legend
Frank Shea
The Dead Don't Hurt
Lewis Cartwright
Corsage
Bay Middleton
Belfast
Billy Clanton
Dead Shot
Michael O'Hara
Testament of Youth
Victor Richardson
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Earl Clancy
The Happy Prince
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Benjamin
Benjamin
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Ariel
Waiting for You
Paul Ashton
Long Day's Journey into Night
Edmund Tyrone
Island
Calum
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Chris Keller
Parked
Cathal O'Regan
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Colin Morgan
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Owen
The Laughing King
Jake
TV Shows (16)
Doctor Who
Jethro Cane · 1 eps
The Sandman
Sexton · 1 eps
The Crown
John Armstrong · 1 eps
Merlin
Merlin · 65 eps
Trying
Kerry · 2 eps
Humans
Leo Elster · 24 eps
The Fall
Tom Anderson · 12 eps
The Living and the Dead
Nathan Appleby · 6 eps
Quirke
Jimmy Minor · 1 eps
The Killing Kind
John Webster · 6 eps
Three Families
Jonathan Kennedy · 2 eps
Mammals
Jeff Wilson · 6 eps
We Hunt Together
Liam Gates · 6 eps
The Boy That Never Was
Harry Lonergan · 4 eps
Dead and Buried
Michael McAllister · 4 eps
Chronicles of the Glens
Narrator · 4 eps
