Acting · Keady, Northern Ireland · Born December 1, 1972
Michael Colgan (born 1972-1973) as Michael Hughes in Keady, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish actor, novelist and academic, currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London Colgan was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and did his undergraduate studies in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then completed a MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, followed by a PhD at London Metropolitan University. He also studied at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has lived in London.
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as Older Gerry Adams
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as Mikhail Shadov
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as IRA Lieutenant
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as Arnholm
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as Sheldon Schwartz
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as Dave Hyndman
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as Anxious Man
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as Derek Taylor
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as Davis
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as Mal Martin
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as Gerard Donaghy
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as Spike
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as Father Behan
